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Montana is home to an amazing and fascinating natural phenomenon: Grasshopper
Glacier. Near Cooke City, Montana, in the heart of the Beartooth
Mountain Range, Grasshopper Glacier is named for the mi...
Brilliant, beautiful and highly prized, the Yogo sapphire is the most
precious gemstone mined in the United States and is an official
gemstone of Montana. Breathtaking to behold, the Yogo sapphire i...
Do you often put off until tomorrow tasks that you should do today? I know
I am guilty of deferring actions until a later date when it would be in
my best interests to just “do it” now. However, I p...
Watching a flock of wild turkey move across a Montana meadow is a fine sight.
They forage, yelp and gobble, oblivious to the plight of millions of
their domesticated brothers doomed to grace holiday...
The first people to inhabit the area now known as Montana were members of nomadic
tribes that supplemented their diets with native plants and sustained
their existence by hunting buffalo and other m...
For many years I believed that the Black Billed Magpie was the Montana
State bird. I was wrong, our state bird is the Meadow Lark. However,
the opportunist and rather aggressive Black Billed Magpie ...
The most visited place in Montana, Glacier National Park is a crown jewel
in America’s National Park System. The park derived its name from the
more than 50 perennial ice fields within its 1600 squa...
Cave walls and cliff faces bear witness to the travels, hunts and brave
deeds of prehistoric hunters and their historic American Indian
counterparts that inhabited the caves sporadically for a perio...
Montana is a paleontologist’s paradise and famous worldwide for its wealth of
dinosaur fossils. Scientists, consumed with a passion to understand the
history of life on earth, have discovered over s...
Since biblical times agates have been considered power stones, talismans of
protection and healing energy. The agates found in Montana are no
exception. Native Americans believed the intriguing ston...
Metal detecting is great exercise, another reason to be outdoors and often a
financially rewarding pursuit. If you are new to treasure hunting or
thinking of becoming a detectorist, I hope you will ...
Is it possible that certain people can discover water, minerals or oil
hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the Earth simply by using their
mind? Since biblical times, dowsers have claimed they c...
Have you ever seen a 100 pound wet rat? The first time I spotted a large
male beaver on Cedar Creek, (Mineral County, Montana) that’s exactly
what I thought it was. I looked again, perhaps the gangl...
Winter storms are the most life-threatening of any natural hazard Montanans
face. Accurate statistics on winter related deaths are hard to tally,
however Montana has one of the highest cold weather ...
People who have spent some time in Montana tell eerie tales of the warm winter
winds. Have you ever experienced a chinook? If so, you surely remember
the sudden change in the weather. A dismal, gray...
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