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The eastern part of the river has channel catfish, sauger, smallmouth bass, and walleye due to the warmer water caused by dewatering from irrigation and the arid climate shift from mountain to prairie ecosystems in the Musselshell's last 90 miles (140 km). [3] [13] There are three different species of freshwater mussels as well as crawdads. [5]
Ruby River; Red Rock River; Big Hole River. Wise River; Boulder River; Roe River (one of the shortest rivers in the world) Madison River; Gallatin River. East Gallatin River; Sixteen Mile Creek; Dearborn River; Smith River; Sun River; Belt Creek; Marias River. Cut Bank Creek; Two Medicine River. Birch Creek. Dupuyer Creek; Teton River ...
The geology of Montana includes thick sequences of Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary rocks overlying ancient Archean and Proterozoic crystalline basement rock. . Eastern Montana has considerable oil and gas resources, while the uplifted Rocky Mountains in the west, which resulted from the Laramide orogeny and other tectonic events have locations with met
In Spring 2005, coal extracted from the mines would retail at the mines for around $5 a ton. However, power stations and plants in the eastern United States were paying over $30 a ton – the difference caused by the cost of transportation. [25] (In October 2008, the mine-mouth price of Powder River Basin coal was closer to $15 per ton. [26])
To this day, Eastern Montana has a proud Native American population. Eastern Montana was the location of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. [3] Fort Peck Dam near Glasgow, Montana was a major project of the Public Works Administration, part of the New Deal. Construction of Fort Peck Dam started in 1933, and at its peak in July 1936 employed ...
The town of Fort Peck, Montana, "the government town," was built for Army Corps of Engineers personnel and men in "positions of responsibility" and their families during the dam's construction. Many of the facilities that supported the dam's workers are still used today, such as the recreation center and the Fort Peck Theater. In addition to ...
Up to 100 homes in Manawa in central Wisconsin, including a nursing home, were evacuated Friday after erosion caused the bank at the edge of the Manawa Mill Pond dam to fail.
The Williston Basin is a large intracratonic sedimentary basin in eastern Montana, western North Dakota, South Dakota, southern Saskatchewan, and south-western Manitoba that is known for its rich deposits of petroleum and potash. The basin is a geologic structural basin but not a topographic depression; it is transected by the Missouri River ...