Author: rpalma
Question: The most vertical feet of skiing in the nation are found in what ski area? Answer: Big Sky, with 4180 feet
Source: Winnipeg Free Press VICTORIA – British Columbia’s independent forest practices watchdog says future timber supplies in the province are at stake and the Liberal government needs to get moving on management plans for pine beetle and fire damaged forests. A Forest Practices Board report released Tuesday concludes up to two million hectares of Interior […]
Question: What town, with 150 inches of snow annually and 600 miles of groomed trails, bills itself as the “snowmobile capital of the world”? Answer: West Yellowstone
Source: Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Inside university laboratories and government research facilities across the country, scientists are playing with dozens of variables — mixing and matching and rearranging — to gain a better understanding of what makes wildfire go. They’re busy building computer models as firefighters toil on steep mountainsides to put out more […]
Source: NBC Montana STEVENSVILLE, Mont. – The Forest Service is tacking verbenone patches to protect campground trees from Mountain Pine Beetles. Verbenone is a pheromone, or chemical, that tells beetles to go away. The beetles should be arriving in a couple weeks. The Forest Service doesn’t have much time to get the word out. Foresters […]