Author: rpalma
Question: How many acres is the average Montana farm today? Answer: 2,714 acres
Source: Missoulian If you thought the beetle-killed forests in Montana look bad, check out the Idaho-sized hole they’ve chewed in British Columbia. Investigative reporter Andrew Nikiforuk brought some equally massive metaphors to describe the impact the insect “the size of a mouse turd” has had on Canadian ecology and politics. The combination of high-grade logging […]
Source: Missoulian What would you think if you heard your local Forest Service was proposing to improve 600 miles of forest roads in need of maintenance? What would you think if the Forest Service was proposing to include an opportunity to provide jobs to small-scale loggers to perform the road maintenance work while they could […]
Source: NPR Fire scientists are calling it “the new normal”: a time of fires so big and hot that no one can remember anything like it. One of the scientists who coined that term is Craig Allen. I drive with him to New Mexico’s Bandelier National Monument, where he works for the U.S. Geological Survey. […]
Question: What percent of Montanans live in a household with at least one gun? Answer: 57%. The only states with a higher percentage are Alaska (58%); South Dakota (59%); and Wyoming (60%)