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Question: What town, with 150 inches of snow annually and 600 miles of groomed trails, bills itself as the “snowmobile capital of the world”? Answer: West Yellowstone
Source: Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Inside university laboratories and government research facilities across the country, scientists are playing with dozens of variables — mixing and matching and rearranging — to gain a better understanding of what makes wildfire go. They’re busy building computer models as firefighters toil on steep mountainsides to put out more […]
Source: NBC Montana STEVENSVILLE, Mont. – The Forest Service is tacking verbenone patches to protect campground trees from Mountain Pine Beetles. Verbenone is a pheromone, or chemical, that tells beetles to go away. The beetles should be arriving in a couple weeks. The Forest Service doesn’t have much time to get the word out. Foresters […]
Question: There are around 250 miles of streets in Butte and how many miles of underground mining tunnels? Answer: More than 2500
Source: Senator Baucus (Washington, D.C.) – Montana’s senior U.S. Senator Max Baucus secured a victory today for Montana forests as the U.S. Senate voted 77 to 22 in favor of his amendment to better address the bark beetle infestation. The plan is one of many Farm Bill amendments the Senate is voting on this week. “The Farm Bill […]