Inside MT

30/11/2022

https://unofficialnetworks.com/2022/11/29/warren-miller-montana-love/

“I think it revolves around that simple word called Freedom. You want to ride a horse, you want to catch a trout, you just want to go to the summit of something and put your arm around your wife an…

18/08/2022

Montana is now the first state to approve 3D-printed construction as an equal replacement for walls made with concrete masonry units.

16/08/2022

A nice history of passenger rail lines in Montana.

https://www.american-rails.com/mnta.html

Presented in this guide is information pertaining to all available train rides and railroad museums located within the state of Montana. Found out everything you need to know here!

09/08/2022

After 4 years of review, the BLM granted a request by the nonprofit American Prairie to release its bison herd onto more than 24,000 hectares of public lands in central Montana.

The decision will allow APR to graze bison on 63,000 acres of BLM-administered land in Phillips County.

07/08/2022

Many people are afraid of bees -- they sting and can cause allergic reactions. But we talked to a Livingston ranch hand who loves them.

05/08/2022

Aug. 5, 1805: On Aug. 4 Merriweather Lewis left Clark a note on a green willow at the mouth of the Wisdom (Big Hole) River instructing him not to follow but a beaver took the note and Clack followed Lewis. Clark wrote the the high temperature that day was 49 degress and that "we wer oblige to cut our way thro' the willows - Men much fatigued from the excessive labours in hauling the Canoes over rapids &c. very weak being in the water all day." Just imagine trying to move these canoes up the river.

03/08/2022

In 2021, Montana had the highest net inflow of moves per capita, with 73% of moves inbound. Billings was the #1 destination with a 3.9 to 1 inbound to outbound ratio.

2020 was a game-changer for migration, completely upending established trends. Now that the U.S. is starting to settle into some semblance of normal life in a pandemic, what trends emerge from 2021 domestic moving data?

02/08/2022

A new report by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks shows that wolf population numbers remain stable even with additional hunting options, but conservation organizations say they have reason to doubt the numbers.

02/08/2022

How mosquitoes get their happy on. 🦟🦟🦟

Credit: Monster Picnic

28/07/2022

28/07/2022

MPL IS THE BEST LIBRARY IN THE WORLD - FOR REAL!!!! The International Federation of Library Associations World Congress in Dublin, Ireland announced that Missoula Public Library is the Public Library of 2022. This award is presented to a newly designed library in any country which has excelled at combining open and sustainable architecture with IT solutions, learning technologies, and local culture and landscape. Missoula Public Library’s downtown flagship, created by Minneapolis-based MSR Design and Montana’s A&E Design, and opened in July 2021, is the first library in North America to win this prestigious award—besting libraries in Denmark, Latvia, and Saudi Arabia. The award comes with $5000 (USD) in prize-money, sponsored by Danish software company Systematic, which the Library will use for future community engagement efforts.

MPL Executive Director Slaven Lee: “This Library of the Year award belongs to our entire community, and is a reflection of the incredible investment Missoulians have made in library excellence and lifelong learning—a legacy that will be admired and enjoyed for generations to come.” IFLA jury chair Jakob Guillois Lærkes: “Of this year’s field of nominees, Missoula Public Library has it all. The building stands out for its beautiful architecture that pays homage to the surrounding landscape while offering a wealth of possibilities for the community. It’s a library built for the future.”

Learn more about the award and its criteria at: https://systematic.com/en-gb/industries/library-learning/news-knowledge/news/world-s-best-new-public-library-found/

25/07/2022

Kalispell came together Thursday to celebrate the opening of the Parkline Trail.

18/07/2022

Flathead Cherries Update

https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2022/jul/17/flathead-lake-cherry-harvest-just-around-corner/

Flathead Lake Cherry Growers are expecting an abundant harvest this summer.

16/07/2022

Another 60 square miles of former Weyerhaeuser timberland halfway between Kalispell and Libby has been saved from development, thanks to a land trust and federal funding.

Another 60 square miles of former Weyerhaeuser timberland halfway between Kalispell and Libby has been saved from development.

14/07/2022

Pirsig went to MSU before becoming a Technical Writer.

12/07/2022

July 12, 1968 Pirsig was in Montana, journaling his trip to the West Coast with his son on their Honda Dream 305 motorcycle. The journal later became Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

DAY 5: JULY 12, 1968. Rock Creek Vista Point on the Beartooth Highway, MT.
"At a turnout on the road we stop, take some record photographs to show we have been here and then walk to a little path that takes out out to the edge of the cliff. A motorcycle on the road almost straight down beneath us could hardly be seen from up here. We bundle up more against the cold and continue upward.
The broad-leafed trees are all gone. Only small pines are left. Many of them have twisted and stunted shapes.

Soon stunted pines disappear entirely and we're in alpine meadows. There's not a tree anywhere, only grass everywhere filled with little pink and blue and white dots of intense color. Wildflowers, everywhere! These and grasses and mosses and lichens are all that can live here, now. We've reached the high country, above the timberline.

I look over my shoulder for one last view of the gorge. Like looking down at the bottom of the ocean. People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high country exists."

~from Chapter 11, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

Pictured: Chris Pirsig, John and Sylvia Sutherland. Photograph by Robert M. Pirsig. Motorcycles: Pirsig's 1966 Honda CB77 Superhawk, Sutherland's BMW R60/1.

View more of Robert Pirsig's own photos from the 1968 trip the novel is based on here, including an additional photo from Rock Creek Vista: http://venturearete.org/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/gallery/Pictures-Robert-Pirsigs-original-1968-trip

Learn more about the Beartooth Highway in Montana and Wyoming... beartoothighway.com

ZMMQuality website:
http://venturearete.org/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/

ZMMQuality's July Retrace is our annual recounting of the events in Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on each date of actual 1968 road trip described in the book.

12/07/2022

Mattie Castner escaped slavery to forge a new life in Montana. Through grit and determination, she made her way from North Carolina to Fort Benton, where she married Belt coal merchant John Castner. Mattie operated Belt’s first hotel on the Great Falls-Lewistown stage line and later owned a ranch in the Highwoods. When she died in 1920 Mattie was Belt’s largest single landowner. Due to her generosity and entrepreneurial spirit, Mattie is fondly remembered as the “Mother of Belt.”
https://www.greatfallshistorymuseum.org/blog/the-mother-of-belt-mattie-bell-castner

Learn more about how Montana women have made a difference in their communities at:
https://montanawomenshistory.org/category/community-building/

Photo courtesy of University of Montana - Missoula, Mansfield Library No. 72.0798

12/07/2022

02/07/2022

Thomas Meagher

July 1st, 1867, in what would be his last act as a Montana official, Thomas Meagher mysteriously disappeared in Fort Benton.

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A parked, bright yellow 1937 Model 706 Bus #401 used for transporting tourists in Yellowstone National Park, as displayed at the "Conversations on Collecting Yellowstone" conference by the Buses Of Yellowstone Preservation Trust.

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12/06/2022

First Peoples Mountain is the new name for a peak in Yellowstone formerly named after a white man who helped lead an attack that left more than 170 Native Americans dead.

The country's first national park has opted to change the name after research uncovered the involvement of Gustavus Doane in an attack that killed 173 Native Americans.

09/06/2022

Phe the donkey celebrated her 2nd trip around the sun earlier this week, and she showed us that you're never too old to share some cake with your mom! I guess twos aren't so terrible after all🥰🥳

📸Ethel and Phe share an ice block birthday cake together. Thank you Animal Care Staff Bri for this precious photo!

09/06/2022

08/06/2022

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/07/yellowstone-boom-pits-lifetime-montana-residents-against-wealthy-newcomers.html

"Yellowstone," which is partially filmed in Montana, has become one of the hottest shows on TV, and it's raised the profile of Big Sky Country.