Author: rpalma
Question: What percentage of the approximately 7500 Native Americans living on the Crow reservation speak Crow as their first language? Answer: 85%
Source: Missoulian Paul Bunyan wouldn’t have known what to make of Gordon Ash’s little logging crew in the Pioneer Mountains last week. Instead of axes or saws, the U.S. Forest Service team went after trees with sticks of high explosive. “You’d calculate the proper amount of explosive, and then fix that on the tree with […]
Question: How cold was it at Rogers Pass on January 20, 1954, when Montana set the record for the coldest temperature ever recorded in the continental U.S.? Answer: The thermometer registered 70 degrees below zero, the lowest temperature it was capable of recording.
Source: Los Angles Times Fire Suppression Policy Has Led to an Overabundance of Trees Ronald Reagan once justified logging with “a tree is a tree; how many more do you need to look at?” Besides, he warned, “trees cause more pollution than automobiles.” We cringed at his biases. Yet due to forces none foresaw, Reagan’s gaffes […]
Question: When parking meters were installed, cowboys insisted on putting their money in them and tying their horses to them causing controversy in what town? Answer: Havre