Western Montana
Snow Survey Program | Montana NRCS
The NRCS Snow Survey Program provides mountain snowpack data and streamflow forecasts for the western United States. Common applications of snow survey products include water supply management, flood control, climate modeling, recreation, and conservation planning. ... [Read More]
Earthquake Hazards Program: Earthquake History of Montana
The southwestern portion ofMontana was struck by a magnitude6 1/4 earthquake on November 23,1947. Maximum intensity reachedVIII and brick, masonry, and concretestructures suffered considerable damage.Alder, Cameron, Ennis, Laurin,and Virginia City, in central MadisonCounty, received the most damage.The total felt area was about 388,000square kilometers of western Montana,northwestern Wyoming, Idaho, andeastern Washington, an area comparableto that of the October 31, 1935,Helena aftershock. ... [Read More]
CDC - Tick-borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia hermsii, Montana
Five persons contracted tick-borne relapsing fever after staying in a cabin in western Montana. Borrelia hermsii was isolated from the blood of two patients, and Ornithodoros hermsi ticks were collected from the cabin, the first demonstration of this bacterium and tick in Montana. Relapsing fever should be considered when patients who reside or have vacationed in western Montana exhibit a recurring febrile illness. ... In 1927, relapsing fever was diagnosed in a a 33-year-old man in Walla Walla, Washington, although his possible site of exposure was Montana ( 8 ). A specific location was not given, however, and spirochetes causing the illness were not identified. Ornithodoros parkeri , another tick vector of relapsing fever spirochetes in western United States, was collected during 1936 in Beaverhead County in southwestern Montana, and an undisclosed number of these ticks transmitted Borrelia parkeri to one mouse in the laboratory ( 9 ). If relapsing fever were to occur in Montana, B. parkeri transmitted by O. parkeri was suspected as the likely etiologic agent ( 9,10 ). ... [Read More]
Western Gray Wolf Information and Status Reports: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Regulation for Nonessential Experimental Populations of the Western Distinct Population Segment of the Gray Wolf ... Search the Western Gray Wolf Website ... Contact US: WesternGrayWolf@fws.gov ... [Read More]
UGPR
Western's Regions ... The Western Area Power Administration's Upper Great Plains Regional office covers maintenance, operation and transmission facilities in Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. ... Western's Strategic Plan ... [Read More]
Western Federal Lands Highway Division
The Western Federal Lands Highway Division (WFLHD) operates as part of the Federal Lands Highway Program, serving the needs of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, and Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks in Wyoming. WFLHD actively administers the surveying, designing and constructing of forest highway system roads, parkways and park roads, Indian reservation roads, defense access roads, and other Federal lands roads. WFLHD also provides training, technology, deployment, engineering services, and products to other customers. ... [Read More]
Discovering Montana - Online Newspapers, TV & Radio
Western Breeze ... The Western News ... The official newspaper for Lake County in beautiful Western Montana! ... [Read More]
Montana Travel Deals
Missoula Convention and Visitors Bureau - Missoula is known as the cultural and retail hub of western Montana. Montana Snowbowl and Marshall ski areas provide winter recreation and fantastic whitewater adventure world class fishing is right outside of town on the Clark Fork River. Missoula celebrates several major events, including the International Wildlife Film Festival in April, Valley Oop! and International Choral Festival in July, United People’s Powwow and Encampment and Western Montana Fair in August. ... [Read More]
Montana - About Montana District Office
Located in the Federal Building at10 West 15th Street, Suite 1100, Helena, Montana, the Montana DistrictOffice is the only SBA office in Montana and serves all 56 counties. Montanais the fourth largest state covering approximately 147,046 square miles.Greatest distance from east to west boundary: approximatley 550 miles,greatest distance from north to south boundary: approximately 320 milesin western Montana and approximately 280 miles in eastern Montana. Thousands of miles are traveled each year providing financial and businessassistance to the small business constituency of Montana. ... [Read More]
The Spread of Invasive Weeds in Western Wildlands
The Departments of Agriculture in eleven western states estimate that there are about 70,000,000 acres of invasive weeds on private, state and federalwildlands. Essentially, this means there are 70,000,000 acres of weed seed being produced every year, much of which is being carried to other wildlands bywind, water, wildlife, livestock, people and equipment. Consequently, just as predictably as lightning strikes ever year, anywhere, all the public lands are underattack from these weed seeds. ... [Read More]
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