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Question: What city holds the record for the greatest snowfall in 24 hours; greatest snowfall in 4 days; greatest snowfall in 5 days; and the greatest snowfall in one month? Answer: Summit, when 131 inches (almost 11′) of snow fell in January of 1972.
Hand Scraped Flooring We are so excited about our new product line, true hand scraped Douglas Fir flooring. Like most of our products we don’t have any secrets, each board is meticulously hand scraped by Jaime and Michael. At Sustainable Lumber we hand craft every floor per order, nothing is mass produced. Unlike most other “hand […]
Source: Missoulian Steve Gage used to worry about his firefighters getting burned. Now the Type I incident commander wonders if they’ll be clubbed to death before they ever reach a forest fire. The threat comes from the tiny mountain pine beetle, only not in the way most people think. Beetle-killed trees have undermined decades of […]
Question: What Montana River is the only major undammed river in the lower 48 states? Answer: The Yellowstone
Source: Craig Rawlings, Forest Business Network Forestry… 1. Produces products that are both safe and sturdy With proper design and maintenance, wood products are some of the most durable and safe on the market. Resistant in instances of high humidity, tough to break, and minimally processed, wood surpasses many other raw materials as the safest […]
Question: What town was named by Outside magazine the number one dream town for outdoor recreation? Answer: Missoula, MT
Source: KPAX HAMILTON, MT- It’s not as bad as in other national forests lands around the Rockies, but managers of the Bitterroot National Forest say they’re getting more aggressive to stopping the problem of pine beetles before they get out of.hand. That was the message Bitterroot National Forest Supervisor Julie King had for Ravalli County […]
Question: From 70 degrees below zero to 117 above, Montana has the greatest temperature range of any state with 187 degrees, but what state comes in second? Answer: North Dakota with a range of 181 degrees, Alaska is third with 180 degrees.
Source: Missoulian “When there’s a crisis,” retired University of Montana choral professor Gary Funk observed, “sometimes the universe conspires to bring good ideas out.” That’s how the aftershocks of the 2010 Haiti earthquake may ripple across time and space to shake up western Montana’s timber industry. After two years of work, Funk and a group […]
Question: Which of the state’s 10 national forest is the largest, with 2.3 million acres? Answer: Flathead, which is about the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined.
Source: Missoulian A recently study should put to rest the notion that green lodgepole pine needles burn as fast as red ones. But more than that, Matt Jolly said, the study could help open firefighters’ eyes to the dangers lurking in mountain pine beetle-infested forests where the trees still look to be alive and doing […]
Question: Coal lies underneath what percentage of land in Montana? Answer: About 35%, part of what may be the largest coal basin on earth.
Source: Flathead Beacon Deep in northwestern Montana near the Idaho border, an expansive 28,000-acre conservation easement proposal is bringing together a diverse group of interests, with conservationists, loggers, wildlife managers and outdoor enthusiasts discovering they can all agree on a common vision: protecting working forestland from development while keeping it open to public recreation. Thanks […]
Question: Who had electricity first: Helena, Montana or New York City? Answer: Helena, Motana. Which was electrified in August of 1882, beat New York which got electricity in September of 1882
We have 3 truck loads of kiln dried, Douglas Fir, 2×6, 8′ through 16′, Tongue and Groove available through the end of March. This special is for full truck load quantities only and will end once all 3 trucks are sold. Approximately 25,000 board feet per truck. Special March pricing is $450 per thousand board feet; […]