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Source: Billings Gazette As timber mill owners and managers in Montana, we’re disappointed that the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act, a bill to create jobs for loggers and mill workers, was prevented from passing in Congress last week. Hundreds of workers in our mills, along with hundreds of independent contractors and vendors we work with, all […]
Question: Farming employs what percentage of Montana’s work force? Answer: 5.9 percent, compared to 1.9 percent nationwide.
Source: KXLH.com The City of Helena has received another significant grant to continue cleaning up the dead and dying pine beetle trees scattered along the backdrop of the city. Brad Langsather heads up the pine beetle restoration projects for the City of Helena. He says the newest project will entail the area south of […]
Question: How many ranchers live in Montana, and what is their average age? Answer: 24,000; with an average age of 60.
Source: Public News Service MISSOULA, Mont. – About 240 new jobs, 11,000 acres of wildlife habitat restored, and thousands of cubic feet of commercial timber sold. These are some of the benefits tallied in a report on the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) on Montana’s Lolo, Flathead and Helena national forests in 2011. The […]