Connecting community and nature through education
Connecting community and nature through education
Outdoor Explorers are full of creativity! The matches were invited to attend Nature Craft Night, a beloved tradition in Helena. Every year, kids and adults come to the Forest Service office to kick off the season with crafts to decorate their Christmas trees or homes. The Outdoor Explorers spent late November covered in glitter, ink, frosting and …
Outdoor explorers sometimes get to venture indoors when it comes to historic sites on the forest. That was the theme of the day at Charter Oak Mine, the “Outdoor Explorers Mentoring Program” October outing. OEMP is a program of the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization, aiming to get kids and their matches outside and investigating …
The Moose Creek Ranger Station in the Ten Mile drainage west of Helena was constructed early in the 20th Century. Evidence from old maps and records, and a pencil date exposed on a wall during restoration work, indicate that the ranger station was built in 1908. Agency correspondence indicates that the station was fully operating …
OPEN to Elk, Deer, Bear, Moose, Hikers, Bikers, Skiers and other outdoor enthusiasts. Now we can keep it that way! For years, local hikers, bikers and skiers used the galaxy of trails on the Spring Hill claim block, located three miles south of Helena encompassing both Grizzly and Oro Fino Gulches with no regard to …
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 …