Author: rpalma
Salvage logging is the process of selective harvesting dead or diseased trees to improve the general health of a forest, especially in a protected growing areas. There as been some controversy in the past as to how salvage logging impacts the forest, but most of the controversy involves traditional mechanical logging methods. We are proud […]
Question: How tall is the Anaconda Copper Mining Company smelter smokestack in Anaconda, MT; the biggest freestanding masonry structure in the world? Answer: 585 feet; the Washington Monument could fit inside it
Source: The Times Leader Photo compliments of: Big Sky Country Photos What do trees have to do with energy? Trees and other plants are energy. They are the ultimate collectors of solar energy, using the energy of the sun to produce food through photosynthesis. Plants jump-start the entire food chain with this energy, synthesizing carbon-based food by […]
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 […]