Connecting community and nature through education
Connecting community and nature through education
For many years, the administration of the National Forest system in the west was one of being a custodian. The main access was by pack-string, and solitary rangers and fire lookouts were the primary people in many of the Forests in Montana. In the era between WWII and the passage of The Wilderness Act of …
In early July, 1806, a party of fourteen men, including Meriwether Lewis learned from the Nez Perce of a low pass on the Lander’s Fork of the Blackfoot River. This was part of the route called “The Road to the Buffalo,” and was used by many tribes to pass to the prairies to hunt bison. …
On July 19, 1805, Lewis & Clark passed through what we now know as the Gates of the Mountains in the Big Belt Mountains, north of Helena. Lewis christened this area because of the towering cliffs lining each side of the river. Once in the canyon, the party was unable to find any site to …