10 October 2012 – Northwest Woodlands Magazine – PDF
Montana is a little different than the rest of the United States when it comes to forests and forestry. Although we are often included as part of the Northwest, only a quarter of our forests are part of the Columbia River basin and we lack a shipping port to the west coast. For us, the Rocky Mountains sometimes impose the same barrier that Lewis and Clark encountered 200 years ago, which is both a boon and a bane.