A whirlwind of controversy swept through the Flathead Valley this week as news broke about a U.S. Forest Service decision to remove the historic Jesus statue on Big Mountain. On Friday, the Whitefish ski community experienced a Second Coming of sorts. Flathead National Forest Supervisor Chip Weber announced that he had withdrawn an earlier decision to deny a special-use permit for the statue, which for decades has been situated on public land along a ski run at Whitefish Mountain Resort.
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