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Source: Cowboys and Indians By Jason Blevins As pine beetles continue to ravage the West and the construction market continues to stall, entrepreneurs and environmentalists struggle to give new life to dead wood. The sky was the limit in 2007. Home prices were skyrocketing. Little more than a signature harvested big loans. Everyone was spending. […]

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Question: What percentage of the approximately 7500 Native Americans living on the Crow reservation speak Crow as their first language?       Answer: 85%

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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 […]

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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.

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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 […]

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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

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Terrorists who want to strike fear in the hearts of Americans would do well to set wildfires in Montana, al-Qaida advises in the most recent issue of its English-language magazine, Inspire. “It is difficult to choose a better place other than in the valleys of Montana where the population increases rapidly,” Inspire’s “AQ Chef” columnist […]

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Beetle Killed Pine Lumber With customers getting more environmentally conscious, our beetle kill pine lumber sales have more than doubled in the past few months. Some of our most recent projects have included accent timbers, mantles, and counter tops. Please keep submitting your finished photo’s so we can post them to the site. We can […]

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Question: Throughout the state of Montana there are how many miles of marked hiking trails?   Answer: 14,633 miles Question: How many miles of interstate highways are there throughout the state?   Answer: 1200

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Source: Missoulian BILLINGS – The U.S. Forest Service is attempting to grow whitebark pine that are resistant to blister rust as part of an effort to prevent the high-elevation tree from dying out in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Workers have created a 15-acre nursery in the mountains south of Bozeman where seedlings resistant to blister […]

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Photo compliments of: Big Sky Country Photos Question: What animal is the fastest in North America and second fastest in the world?         Answer: Pronghorn antelope, out run only by the cheetah

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Picture compliments of: Big Sky Country Photos Source: Billings Gazette By: Brett French Pine Beetle Infestation  Eases From the air, the view of Montana’s forests is improving, with indications that the state’s mountain pine beetle infestation is abating. “Conditions are improving,” said Gregg DeNitto, a Forest Service pathologist and leader of the Forest Service’s Forest […]

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3 truck loads only – 1×8 Tongue and Groove, V-joint paneling, 10′-16′. 100% Montana beetle kill blue stain paneling. $580 per thousand board feet.  Approx 28,000 board feet per truck $.39 per lineal foot.  Approx 42,000 lineal feet per truck $.69 per square foot .  Approx 23,650 square feet per truck F.O.B our yard in […]

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If you missed it, here is a pretty cool interview with Governor Brian Schweitzer on the Late Show with David Letterman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=983bhGKa4H4

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Photo compliments of: Big Sky Country Photos Question: The average square mile of Montana land is estimated to contain 1.4 elk, 1.4 pronghorn antelope, 3.3 deer, and how many humans?       Answer: 6

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