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Fisher Ream, an AmeriCorps VISTA member who works at the State of Montana ArboretUM on the University of Montana Missoula campus, speaks with Lauren Korn about the ArboretUM’s summer and fall tree tours, as well as guided “forest bathing.”
Hunt is on for materials to repair one of Montana's oldest buildings By: Dennis Bragg and last updated 2021-07-23 20:41:57-04 STEVENSVILLE â Today if you need bricks, you drive to the store. But Montana's pioneers made their own. And that's a problem for Bitterroot historians. Today if you walk along the banks of the Bitterroot River, you're primarily going to find sand and gravel. But somewhere along this river, or up in the foothills, lies the answer to one of the Valley's real architectural mysteries. In the very early days of Montana, most pioneers used what was most...
A southwestern building material was used in the mid-1800s at Stevensville's Fort Owen. John Owen bought the property from St. Mary's Missions and decided to establish a trading post. To build the barracks and the fort's outer walls, he wanted to use adobe bricks. And he used local clay as one of the main ingredients. He was persistent in his building project and historians say thousands of the bricks were fashioned. In a "Friends of Fort Owen" report, Lorraine Roach notes that Owen's journals had plenty of mentions of the adobe work. Apparently, some days were too wet to let them dry after m...
It's one of Montana's smallest, but most historically significant state parks. And now, with a major upgrade underway, Fort Owen is finally getting some of the attention it deserves.