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Source: Missoulian Photo Compliments of: Big Sky Country Photos LUBRECHT EXPERIMENTAL FOREST – Somewhere between the clearcut practices of 30 years ago and today’s debate over the proper size of wood chips, forest sustainability and management has absorbed some major changes. “We’ve had to work on regaining trust,” Montana State University extension forestry professor Peter […]
Photo compliments of: Big Sky Country Photos Question The 19 million acres of national forest in Montana are about the size of what eastern seaboard state? Answer South Carolina
Source: Helena Independent Record By Julie Altemus This week marks the first “Montana Forest Products Industry Week.” The third week of October was set aside by the 62nd Montana Legislature in conjunction with the National Forest Products Week dedicated by Congress 51 years ago, to observe the importance of forests and their products. Congress recognized […]
Source: Missoulian Chemical war. Biological war. Scorched earth. Having watched mountain pine beetles blitz the Continental Divide forests east of here for the past decade, leaving practically no mature pines living near the state’s capital, western Montanans are primed for a fight. “In Helena and Butte, they’ll have a whole generation that won’t know what (Montana) […]
Photo compliments of: Big Sky Country Photos Question: Montana is 550 miles across (east to west). Is that greater than, less than, or equal to the distance from Chicago to New York City? Answer: About equal to, as the crow flies