- This article is about the U.S. State. For other uses, see Montana (disambiguation).
State of Montana
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| Flag of Montana |
Seal of Montana |
| Nickname(s): Treasure State, hannah montana Big Sky Country |
| Motto(s): Oro y plata |
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| Official language(s) |
English |
| Capital |
Helena |
| Largest city |
Billings |
| Area |
Ranked 4th |
| - Total |
147,165 sq mi
(381,156 montana km²) |
| - Width |
255 miles ({{{Width}}} km) |
| - Length |
630 miles (1,015 km) |
| - % hanna montana water |
1 |
| - Latitude |
44°26' N map of montana to 49° N |
| - Longitude |
104°2' W to 116°2' W |
| Population |
Ranked 44th |
| - Total (2000) |
902,195 |
| - Density |
6.19/sq mi
2.39/km² (48th) |
| Elevation |
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| - Highest montana real estate point |
Granite Peak
12,799 ft (3,901 m) |
| - Mean |
3,396 ft (1,035 montana online maps m) |
| - Lowest point |
1,802 ft (549 m) |
| Admission to Union |
November 8, 1889 (41st) |
| Governor |
Brian Schweitzer university of montana (D) |
| U.S. Senators |
Max Baucus (D)
Conrad Burns (R) |
| Time zone |
Mountain: UTC-7/DST-6 |
| Abbreviations |
MT montana state flower US-MT |
| Web site |
www.mt.gov |
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Contents
- 1 Geography
- 2 History
- 3 Demographics
- 4 Economy
- 5 Transportation
- 6 Law hannah montana best of both worlds missoula montana and government
- 7 Important montana state job cities and towns
- 8 Education
- 8.1 Colleges helena montana and universities
- 9 Professional montana newspapers sports teams
- 10 Miscellaneous topics
- 10.1 State symbols
- 10.2 Ski montana state map areas
- 11 See also
- 12 References
- 13 Further billings montana reading
- 14 External links
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Geography
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With a land area of 145,552 arnica montana square miles (376,978 km²), the state of Montana bozeman montana is the fourth largest in the United States (after Alaska, Texas, and California).
To the north, Montana and montana rv Canada share a 545-mile (877 km) portion of the world's longest undefended border. The state borders the montana dreams real estate Canadian provinces of British Columbia, montana exclusive real estate Alberta and Saskatchewan, more provinces than any other state. To the east hannah montana songs the state borders North Dakota and part of South Dakota. To the south is montana fly fishing Wyoming and about a mile of South Dakota, and on the west and southwest is Idaho.
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The northern section of the Divide, where montana fish wildlife and parks the mountains give way rapidly to prairie, is known collectively as the Rocky Mountain Front. East of the Divide, several parallel ranges montana news march across the southern half of the state, including the Gravelly great falls montana Range, the Tobacco Roots, the Madison Range, Gallatin Range, Big Belt Mountains, montana property for sale Bridger Mountains, Absaroka Range and Beartooth Mountains. The Beartooth Plateau is the montana wildfires largest continuous land mass over 10,000 feet (3,000 m) in whitefish montana real estate the lower 48 states and contains the highest point in the best of both worlds hannah montana state, Granite Peak, 12,799 feet (3,901 m) high.
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The area montana job service east of the divide in the north-central portion of the state is known for the dramatic Missouri Breaks and other significant rock formations. montana lottery Three stately buttes south of montana forest fires Great Falls are familiar landmarks. These buttes, Square Butte, Shaw Butte, and Crown Butte, montana realestate are made of igneous rock, which is dense and has withstood weathering for many years. montana ranches for sale The underlying surface consists of shale. Many areas around these buttes are northwest montana real estate covered with clay surface facts about montana soils. These soils have been derived from the weathering of the Colorado Formation. Farther east, hanah montana areas such as Makoshika State Park near Glendive, and Medicine Rocks State Park near Ekalaka also higlight some of homes for sale in montana the most scenic badlands regions in the state.
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East of the divide, the fly fishing montana Missouri River, formed by the confluence of montana fwp the Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin rivers, crosses the central part of the state, flows through the Missouri breaks and montana weather enters North Dakota. The Yellowstone River rises in Yellowstone Park in montana cpa Wyoming, flows north whitefish montana property to Livingston, Montana, where it then turns east and flows homes for sale montana across the state until it joins the Missouri River a few miles east licensed real estate agents montana of the North Dakota boundary. The Yellowstone River is the longest undammed, free-flowing river in North montana real estate listing America. Other major Montana tributaries of the Missouri montana rental homes include the Milk, Marias, Tongue, and Musselshell Rivers. Montana also claims the hannah montana i've got nerve disputed title of possessing the "world's shortest river", the Roe River, just outside Great Falls, Montana. These rivers ultimately join the hannah montana soundtrack Mississippi River and flow into the Gulf of Mexico.
Due to the log homes montana configuration of mountain ranges in Glacier National Park, the Northern Divide (which begins in the modular homes montana Seward Peninsula) crosses this region and turns east montana hunting in Montana at Triple Divide Peak. Thus, the Waterton, Belly, and Saint Mary Rivers flow montana real estate listings north into Alberta, Canada joining new home builders montana the Saskatchewan River, and ultimately emptying into Hudson Bay.
Water is of critical importance to the state real estate listings for montana for both agriculture and hydropower. In addition to its rivers, the state is home montana modular homes to Flathead montana vacation homes Lake, the largest natural fresh-water lake west of the Great Lakes. Man-made reservoirs dot Montana's rivers, the largest hannah montana music of which is Fort Peck Reservoir, on the Missouri river, contained by the largest earth-filled dam in custom log home montana the world.
Vegetation of the state includes ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, larch, elk hunting montana fir, spruce, aspen, birch, red cedar, ash, alder, montana investment properties rocky mountain maple and cottonwood trees. Forests montana waterfront real estate cover approximately 25% of the state. Flowers native to Montana include asters, bitterroots, daisies, lupins, poppies, property for sale in montana primroses, columbine, lilies, orchids and dryads. Several species of sagebrush and real estate of montana privacy cactus and many species of grasses are common. Many hannah montana pictures species of mushrooms and lichens are also found in the state.
Montana contains Glacier National Park and portions of Yellowstone National Park, including montana log home three of the Park's five entrances. Other federally-recognized sites deer lodge montana cpa include the Little Bighorn National Monument, Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, homes for sale northwest montana Big Hole National Battlefield, Lewis and list recreation homes montana Clark Caverns, and the National Bison Range. Montana has eight National Forests and over 20 National Wildlife montana land mls Refuges. The Federal government administers 36,000,000 montana log homes builder acres (146,000 km²). 275,000 acres (1,100 km²) are administered as state parks and forests.
Areas managed montana preferred property by the National Park Service include:
- Big Hole National Battlefield near Wisdom
- Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area montana property privacy near Fort Smith
- Glacier National Park
- Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site at montana tractor Deer Lodge, Montana
- Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
- Little Bighorn Battlefield National realtors in trout creek montana Monument near Crow Agency
- Nez Perce National Historical Park
- Yellowstone National Park
Several Indian reservations are located in Montana: Fort mls realty montana Peck Indian Reservation, Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Crow Indian modular home listings in billings montana Reservation, Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, Blackfeet Indian montana real estate agent Reservation, and the Flathead Indian Reservation.
See also: List of Montana counties, List of Montana rivers
History
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Native Americans were the first inhabitants of northwest montana homes for sale Montana. Groups included the Crow in the south-central area, the Cheyenne in the southeast, the Blackfeet, Assiniboine and rental homes in montana Gros Ventres in the central and north-central that's so suite life of hannah montana area and the Kootenai and Salish dillon montana real estate in the west. The smaller Pend d'Oreille and Kalispel tribes were found around Flathead Lake and the western mountains, respectively.
Subsequent to the khs montana tour Lewis and Clark expedition and after the finding of gold and copper missoula, montana (see the Copper Kings) in the state in the late montana vacation 1850s, Montana became a United States territory (Montana Territory) on May 26, montana web site submission 1864 and the 41st state on November 8, 1889.
Fort Shaw (Montana Territory), was established in hannah montana cd the spring of montana maps 1867. It is located west of Great Falls in the Sun River Valley and was one glacier national park montana of three posts authorized to be built by Congress in 1865. The other two mls montana posts in the Montana Territory were Camp Cooke on the Judith River and montana land realtor Fort C.F. Smith on the Bozeman Trail in south central Montana montana mls listings Territory. Fort Shaw, named montana rural homes after Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who commanded the 54th Massachusetts, one of montana skiing the first all African-American regiments, during the American Civil War, was built of adobe and lumber by the 13th Infantry. The who said hannah montana fort had a parade ground that was 400 feet (120 m) square, and consisted of barracks bozeman, montana for officers, a hospital, and a trading post, and hana montana could house up to 450 soldiers. Completed mls montana realty in 1868, it was used by military personnel montana custom homes until 1891.
After the close of the military post, the government established Fort Shaw as montana land mls listing a school to provide industrial training to young Native Americans. The Fort Shaw Indian montana luxury vacation home rental Industrial School was opened on April 30, 1892. The montana rural property for sale school had at one time 17 faculty members, 11 Indian assistants and 300 students. The school made use northwest montana custom homes of over 20 of the buildings built by the Army.
The revised hannah montana if we were a movie Homestead Act of the early 1900s greatly affected the log home montana settlement of Montana. This act expanded the land that montana cattle drives was provided by the Homestead Act of 1862 from 160 acres to 320 montana preferred properties acres (65-130 ha). When the latter act was signed by President Taft, it also reduced the time montana home builder necessary to prove up from five years to three years and permitted five months east montana hunting absence from the claim each year.
In 1908, the Sun River Irrigation homes in montana privacy Project, west of Great Falls was opened up for homesteading. montana fishing Under this Reclamation Act, a person could obtain 40 montana ranches acres(16 ha). Most of the people who came to file on these homesteads were young couples who were polson montana eager to live near the mountains where hunting eureka montana real estate and fishing were good. Many of these homesteaders came from the Midwest and Minnesota.
Montana was the scene of the Native Americans' last foreclosure home montana effort to hannah montana this is the life keep their land, and the last stand of U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer was fought near the present montana secretary of state day town of Hardin. Montana was also the location of the final montana state fair battles of the Nez Perce Wars.
Cattle ranching montana vacation home rental has long been central to Montana's history and economy. The Grant-Kohrs northwest montana land realtor Ranch National Historic Site in Deer Lodge Valley is maintained as a link northwest montana realtor to the ranching style of the late 19th rental property montana century. It is operated by the National Park Service but is also a 1,900-acre (7.7 km²) working ranch.
Demographics
| Historical populations |
Census
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Population |
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| 1870 |
20,595 |
| 1880 |
39,159 |
| 1890 |
142,924 |
| 1900 |
243,329 |
| 1910 |
376,053 |
| 1920 |
548,889 |
| 1930 |
537,606 |
| 1940 |
559,456 |
| 1950 |
591,024 |
| 1960 |
674,767 |
| 1970 |
694,409 |
| 1980 |
786,690 |
| 1990 |
799,065 |
| 2000 |
902,195 |
| 2005 adventure vacations in montana cattle drives in montana montana guest ranches Estimate |
935,670 |
Montana Population Density Map
As of 2005, Montana great falls, montana has an hannah montana episodes estimated population of 928,670, which is an increase of 8,750, or 0.9%, from the prior year and an montana elk hunts increase of 33,475, or 3.7%, since whitefish, montana the year 2000. This includes a natural increase since the last census of 13,674 people (that montana department of transportation is 58,001 births minus 44,327 deaths) and an increase due to net migration of 21,074 montana site submission web people into the state. Immigration from outside the United States resulted in a if we were a movie hannah montana net increase of 2,141 people, and migration within the country produced a net increase of land for sale in montana 18,933 people. 16,500 of state residents are foreign-born, accounting for 1.8% livingston, montana of the total population.
The state ranks fourth in size at thats so suite life of hannah montana 147,000 square miles pictures of hannah montana (381,000 km²) but has a relatively low population (with only six states having fewer people) and senators from montana consequently a very low population density.
| Demographics of Montana (csv) |
| By race |
White |
Black |
AIAN |
Asian |
NHPI |
| AIAN is cheap acreage in montana American Indian or Alaskan Native - NHPI is Native Hawaiian libby montana or Pacific Islander |
| 2000 (total population) |
92.79% |
0.50% |
7.36% |
0.79% |
0.12% |
| 2000 (hispanic only) |
1.74% |
0.05% |
0.28% |
0.04% |
0.01% |
| 2005 (total montana gunn population) |
92.52% |
0.62% |
7.47% |
0.82% |
0.11% |
| 2005 (hispanic red lodge montana only) |
2.22% |
0.07% |
0.23% |
0.03% |
0.01% |
| Growth 2000-2005 hannah montana song lyrics (total population) |
3.42% |
28.09% |
5.19% |
7.11% |
-4.46% |
| Growth 2000-2005 (non-hispanic only) |
2.87% |
25.58% |
5.91% |
8.07% |
-0.82% |
| Growth 2000-2005 (hispanic only) |
31.85% |
52.36% |
-13.46% |
-13.52% |
-39.22% |
While German cheap land montana for sale ancestry kalispell, montana is the largest reported European-American ancestry in most of Montana, residents of montana grizzlies Scandinavian ancestry are prevalent in some of the farming-dominated northern and eastern prairie regions. There are eureka montana also several predominantly Native American counties, fires in montana mostly around each of the seven Indian resevations. The historically mining-oriented communities of western Montana have a wider range teds montana grill of ethnic groups, particularly people of Eastern European and Irish-American ancestry, as well as people that's so the suite life of hannah montana who originally emigrated from British mining regions montana birth injury lawyer such as Cornwall. Montana is second only to South Dakota in U.S. Hutterite population with several arnica montana dosage colonies spread across the state. Many of Montana's historic logging communities originally attracted montana mountains people who said by hannah montana of Scandinavian and Scotch-Irish descent. Montana's Hispanic population is particularly concentrated around hannah montana cast the Billings area in south-central Montana, and the highest density of African-Americans is located in Great Falls.
Religion
The religious hr jobs in billings montana affiliations of the people of Montana:
- Christian – 82%
- Protestant – 55%
- Lutheran – montana base jumping 15%
- Methodist – 8%
- Baptist – montana rae 5%
- Presbyterian – 4%
- United Church of Christ – 2%
- Other Protestant or general Protestant – 21%
- Roman Catholic – 24%
- LDS (Mormon) – 3%
- Other Religions – montana silversmith <1%
- Non-Religious – 18%
Economy
The Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that Montana's total state product benefits of arnica montana in 2003 was $26 billion. Per capita personal income in 2003 was $25,406, 47th big fork montana in the nation. However, this number is rapidly increasing. According to the Missoulian, the economy has grown rapidly since 2003; lewistown montana in 2005, Montana ranked 39th in the nation with an average montana office of public instruction per capita personal income montana state university bozeman of $29,387.
The economy is primarily based on agriculture--wheat, barley, sugar beets, oats, rye, seed potatoes, honey, cherries, cattle and montana tech sheep ranching--and significant lumber and mineral extraction (gold, coal, silver, montana travel talc, and vermiculite). Tourism is also important to polson montana real estate the economy with millions of visitors a year to Glacier hamilton montana National Park, Flathead Lake, the Missouri River headwaters, the site of the Battle of Little Bighorn and three of the five entrances holly montana to Yellowstone National Park.
Montana personal income tax contains 7 brackets, with rates montana birth injury attorney ranging from 1% to 6.9%. Montana has no sales tax. In montana department of corrections Montana, household goods are exempt from montana hospitals property taxes. However, property taxes are assessed on livestock, farm machinery, heavy equipment, automobiles, trucks and business equipment. • The montana state university billings amount of property tax owed is not determined 1923 montana push mower or trimmer solely by the property's value. The property's value is multiplied by a hannah montana costume tax rate, set by the Montana Legislature, maps of montana to determine its taxable value. The taxable value is then multiplied by the montana facts mill levy established by various taxing jurisdictions -- city and county government, school districts and others.
Transportation
Major highways montana state parks include:
- Interstate 15
- Interstate 90
- Interstate 94
- U.S. Highway fort peck montana 2
- U.S. Highway 212
- U.S. Highway 93
In addition, Amtrak's "Empire Builder" train runs through havre montana the north of the state, stopping in the following towns: Libby, Whitefish, West montana fire Glacier, Essex, East Glacier Park, Browning, Cut Bank, Shelby, Havre, Malta, Glasgow, and Wolf Point.
Law and montana pictures government
See: List of Montana Governors
The current the singer hannah montana Governor is Brian Schweitzer (Democrat) who was sworn in on January 3, 2005. western montana real estate Its two U.S. senators are Max Baucus (Democrat) and Conrad Burns (Republican). Montana's congressman is Denny Rehberg (Republican).
The state hannah montana concert tickets hannah montana theme song was the first to elect a female member of Congress (Jeannette Rankin), livingston montana and was one of the first states to give women voting rights; (see suffrage). Despite its sizable American Indian population, Montana is one montana deer hunting of the most homogenous states— nearly 90% of its residents montana refinance mortgage rates are of European descent, with used subaru forester in montana a large number of immigrants of German, Irish, Norwegian, Welsh, big sky, montana Cornish, Italian, Slovak and Scandinavian heritage arriving in the late 19th hannah montana disney and early 20th centuries. A significant portion of Chinese (Cantonese) immigrants also came helena montana real estate and left an indelible mark on the state, especially in the mining cities of Helena, Butte, and Anaconda.
Politics
Historically, Montana was a montana golf vacation package montana golf vacation package Swing state of montana territory forts cross-ticket voters with a tradition of sending "conservatives to Helena (the state capital) and liberals to Washington." However, there have roundup montana also been long-term shifts of party control. this is the life hannah montana During the 1970s, the state was dominated by the Democratic party, with university montana missoula Democratic governors for a 20-year period, great falls montana real estate and a Democratic majority of both the national congressional delegation and during many sessions of the helena, montana state legislature. This pattern shifted, beginning with the 1988 election, when Montana lyrics to hannah montana elected a Republican governor and sent a Republican to the U.S. Senate for the first time since the montana code annotated 1940s. This shift continued with the reapportionment of the state's montana state facts legislative districts that took effect in 1994, when montana taylor the Republican party took control of both houses of the state legislature, consolidating a phyllis montana leblanc party dominance that lasted until 2004. The state last supported west yellowstone montana a Democrat for president in 1992, Bill Clinton's first election.
Thus, in recent years, Montana has been dillon montana classified as a Republican-leaning state, and the state supported President George W. Bush by a hannah montana concerts wide margin in hannah montana music videos 2000 and 2004. However, since the 2000 reapportionment plan went into effect in 2004, Democrats have fared better. hannah montana wallpaper The state currently has a Democratic montana cities governor (Brian Schweitzer), elected in 2004 and a Democrat-controlled state legislature. Also, incumbent Republican Senator Conrad Burns montana flag faces a tough fight for reelection against Democratic State Senate President Jon montana group health insurance plans Tester in the 2006 election.
Montana is an Alcoholic beverage control state.
Important cities and towns
Billings skyline & Sacrifice Cliff, 2005
Some of the cities in Montana are:
- Billings
- Bozeman
- Butte
- Great Falls
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- Havre
- Helena
- Kalispell
- Missoula
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Some of social security disability lawyers montana the major towns in Montana are:
- Anaconda
- Belgrade
- Columbia Falls
- Cut Bank
- Deer Lodge
- Dillon
- Glasgow
- Glendive
- Hamilton
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- Hardin
- Laurel
- Lewistown
- Livingston
- Miles City
- Polson
- Shelby
- Sidney
- Whitefish
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Education
Colleges and columbus montana universities
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The state-funded Montana University System consists of:
- Montana State University - Bozeman
- Montana State University - Billings
- Montana State forest fires in montana University - Northern - Havre
- University of Montana - Missoula
- Montana Tech hannah montana website of the University of Montana - Butte
- University of Montana Western - Dillon
- University of montana jumpers Montana - Helena College of Technology
- Flathead Valley Community College
- Dawson Community College
- Miles Community College
Major Tribal montana state probation dept. Colleges in Montana include:
- Little Big Horn College
- Fort Peck Community travel montana College or Ft. Peck Community College
- Salish Kootenai College
- Stone Child College
Major Private Colleges and Universities include:
- Carroll College
- University of montana 5th wheel Great Falls
- Rocky Mountain College
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Professional sports teams
The Minor montana fish and wildlife League baseball teams are:
- Missoula Osprey
- Great Falls White Sox
- Helena Brewers
- Billings Mustangs
Miscellaneous topics
The state's montana golf vacation package name is derived from the Spanish word montaña ("mountain"). montana history The state nickname is the "Treasure montana road report State." Other nicknames include "Land of Shining Mountains", "Big Sky Country", and the slogan big timber montana "the last best place".
The battleship USS Montana was named in honor of the state.
The Hell Creek guided trout fly fishing trips in montana Formation is a major source of dinosaur fossils. Palentologist Jack Horner, hannnah montana of the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana brought this formation to the missoula montana fitness franchise world's attention with several major finds. For example, Jane montana golf vacation was discovered in 2001 in Hell Creek and is montana homes the world's most complete juvenile tyrannosaurus rex.
In 1902, a group of female students from the Fort Shaw Indian Industrial School began playing basketball montana mountain base and traveled throughout Montana, defeating high school teams and some college what can you find in whitefish, montana teams. In 1904, the girls' basketball team flathead lake montana traveled by train to the St. Louis World's Fair. Over a period of hannah montana pics five months, the team was challenged by numerous other basketball teams and won every montana airports contest, returning to Fort Shaw with the "world champion" trophy. On montana car accident lawyer May 1, 2004, a monument in montana newspaper honor of the basketball team was unveiled at the entrance of the present-day Fort Shaw Elementary School.
In the movie 'Star Trek: First montana outfitters Contact', Montana is montana zip codes the location of the fictitious first contact between humans and an alien race, the Vulcans. Star Trek producer snowmobiles in west yellowstone montana Brannon Braga is originally from Bozeman, Montana.
Montana has the montana railroad the largest grizzly bear population in the lower 48 states.
Montana is western montana fair one of two states (Pennsylvania is the other, see http://www.pennswoods.net/~tomdewey/fishing/watersh.htm) with madison county montana a triple divide, allowing water to flow into three oceans: the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean (Gulf of Mexico), and the montana cabin rentals Arctic Ocean (Hudson Bay). This phenomenon occurs montana department of education at Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park.
In 1888, Helena (the current state capital) had montana freemen attorney more millionaires per capita than any montana mountain jumpers other city in the world.
Montana is one of two montana rivers states in the continental United States which in addition to not having a major metropolitan area over montana seal 1,000,000 in population, also does not border a state that does have one (Maine is the montana state prison other). However, it does border the Canadian Provinces Alberta(population in 2005 montana west of 3,237,000) and polson, montana British Columbia (population in 2006 of 4,292,000, which have three cities with a metro population of over 1,000,000 social security disability attorneys montana each.
State symbols
- State flower: Bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva), since arnica montana bromelain 1895
- State tree: Ponderosa Pine, since 1949
- State animal: Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos eastern montana land for sale horribilis), since 1862
- State bird: Western Meadowlark, since 1931
- State fish: Blackspotted Cutthroat Trout, since 1977
- State Song: "Montana", since 1945
- State Ballad: fly fishing in montana "Montana Melody", since 1983
- State Gemstones: Yogo Sapphire & Agate
- State Fossil: Duck-billed Dinosaur homeopathy arnica montana (Maiasaura peeblesorum), since 1985
- State Butterfly: Mourning cloak (Nymphalis antiopa), since marion montana real estate 2001
- State Grass: Bluebunch Wheatgrass, since 1973
- State Motto: "Oro y miles city montana Plata" (Spanish: Gold and Silver)
Ski areas
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- Bear Paw Ski Bowl near Havre, Montana
- Big Mountain near Whitefish
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- Bennion, Jon. Big Sky Politics. Five Valleys montana spinal cord injury attorneys Publishing, April 2004. ISBN 1-888550-13-9
- Lopach, James. montana state bird We the People of Montana: The Workings of a Popular Government. Falcon Press, 1983 ISBN 0-87842-159-9
- Kittredge, William. The Last Best montana university Place: A Montana uss montana Anthology. (From the back cover: "...over 230 stories, poems, reminiscences, and reports written by 140 men arnica montana 6x and women. The book is divided into eight browning montana sections with introductory essays by William Bevis, Mary Clearman Blew, William Kittredge, debt consolidation credit counseling montana William Lang, Richard Roeder, Annick Smith, and James Welch.") University of Washington: 1990. 1158 pages. ISBN 0-295-96974-1.
- Howard, Joseph Kinsey. Montana: High, Wide, and first interstate bank montana Handsome. Bison Books: 2003. ISBN 0-8032-7339-8.
- Malone, Michael P., Richard B. Roeder and montana 1948 William L. Lang. Montana: A montana birth certificate History of Two Centuries. University of Washington: montana dakota utilities 1991. ISBN 0-295-97129-0.
- Toole, K. Ross. Montana: An Uncommon Land. University of Oklahoma: 1984. ISBN 0-8061-1890-3.
- Doig, Ivan, Dancing at montana football the Rascal Fair. Scribner: 1987. ISBN 0-689-11764-7.
- Doig, Ivan, English Creek. Peter montana game and fish Smith Publisher Inc: 1992. ISBN 0-8446-6608-4.
- MacLean, Norman, A River Runs Through It. University of Chicago Press: montana rv s 1976. ISBN 0-226-50060-8.
- MacLean, Norman, Young Men and Fire. University montana state flag of Chicago Press: 1992. ISBN 0-226-50061-6.
- Walker, Mildred. Winter Wheat. Harcourt: 1967. ISBN 0-15-197223-0.
- Walter, Dave, et. montanas al. Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Montana History. Falcon Press, 2000. ISBN 1-58592-032-0
- Axline, Jon, ranches for sale montana et. al. Still Speaking Ill of the varmit hunting great falls montana Dead: More Jerks in Montana History. Falcon Press, 2005. base jumping in montana ISBN 1-58592-032-0
- Groneberg, Tom, [http://www.tomgroneberg.com/home.html " The Secret Life of Cowboys" and "One Good Horse
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