Author: rpalma
Question: What Montana reservoir is the 5th largest in the world? Answer: Fort Peck Reservoir, which is 134 miles long and up to 220 feet deep. It’s 1520 miles of shoreline is equal to the shoreline of California Question: What is the largest natural freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes, with 124 miles […]
Source: The Vancouver Sun Photo Compliments of: Big Sky Country Photos Imagine a situation in which an activist group with certain political ambitions and close ties to a computer manufacturer engaged in a campaign of threats against specific retailers. Targeted retailers were told that they must buy computers from only a select manufacturer (the one […]
Picture compliments of: Big Sky Country Photos Question: How many glaciers are in Glacier National Park? Answer: 48. The largest of which is Blackfoot Glacier at 420 acres Question: What percentage of the land in Glacier National Park is above the tree line? Answer: 33 percent
We at Sustainable Lumber Co. believe we have the finest Douglas Fir Flooring available. We know that sounds a bit arogant and we’re sorry, but here’s why: 100% of our Douglas Fir Flooring is sourced from either SFI Certified (Sustainable Forest Initiative) or salvaged dead standing timber. Our flooring is slowly custom kiln dried to […]
By: Peter Kolb, University of Montana Forest ecosystems are the combination of species, geology, topography, and climate tied together by physical and biotic processes specific to any one site, and most importantly occupied by trees as the dominant vegetation. A forest ecosystem may be as small as a tree branch microsite where mosses, insects, and […]