Author: rpalma
Source: KPAX HAMILTON, MT- It’s not as bad as in other national forests lands around the Rockies, but managers of the Bitterroot National Forest say they’re getting more aggressive to stopping the problem of pine beetles before they get out of.hand. That was the message Bitterroot National Forest Supervisor Julie King had for Ravalli County […]
Question: From 70 degrees below zero to 117 above, Montana has the greatest temperature range of any state with 187 degrees, but what state comes in second? Answer: North Dakota with a range of 181 degrees, Alaska is third with 180 degrees.
Source: Missoulian “When there’s a crisis,” retired University of Montana choral professor Gary Funk observed, “sometimes the universe conspires to bring good ideas out.” That’s how the aftershocks of the 2010 Haiti earthquake may ripple across time and space to shake up western Montana’s timber industry. After two years of work, Funk and a group […]
Question: Which of the state’s 10 national forest is the largest, with 2.3 million acres? Answer: Flathead, which is about the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined.
Source: Missoulian A recently study should put to rest the notion that green lodgepole pine needles burn as fast as red ones. But more than that, Matt Jolly said, the study could help open firefighters’ eyes to the dangers lurking in mountain pine beetle-infested forests where the trees still look to be alive and doing […]