OUTDOOR PEOPLE — Montana’s Outdoor Legacy Foundation and several other co-sponsoring conservation and historical organizations will announce the first round of inductees into the newly formed Montana Outdoor Hall of Fame on Saturday.

The first batch of 12 inductees includes people still alive and some big names of the past such as Theodore Roosevelt and Charles M. Russell.

If Washington were to create an Outdoors Hall of Fame, one of the first picks clearly would be William O. Douglas, the Supreme Court Associate Justice and ardent hiker who spearheaded the movement to save a stretch of Washington's priceless ocean beaches as wilderness.

Beyond that, would choosing more inductees:

• Be dominated by Western Washington residents?
• Stir conflict between commercial and sport fishermen?
• Be required to fill 50 percent of the nominations with Native Americans?
• Break down into a conservative vs. liberal thing?
• Be challenged in a Tim Eyman initiative?