“The danger from glacier-dammed lakes is increasing due ... At the end of the last Ice Age, Lake Missoula had an outburst that was 2,500 times larger than the recent Catalina event.

Then, via Glacier National Park's Going-to-the-Sun Road, the route goes to Whitefish. Then, head down U.S. Route 93 to Flathead Lake West Shore State Park and on to Missoula. The route ends in ...

When Glacial Lake Missoula's ice dam shattered, a northern arm of the lake drained in a matter of hours through a narrow gap in Montana's Blackfoot River valley. One can only imagine the ...

Here is another history lesson about Montana ice jams: Glacial Lake Missoula was essentially formed by a massive ice jam, known as an ice dam, that blocked the flow of the Clark Fork River near ...

At this time, the Okanogan Lobe and Purcell Trench Lobe blocked the Columbia River, forming glacial lakes Columbia and Missoula. Glacial Lake Missoula was metastable and its ice dam released episodic ...

You can learn about prescribed fire, Glacial Lake Missoula, forest "recycling," Montana's state tree, and about lichen, kinnikinnick, nine-bark, serviceberry and many other plants. Midway down the ...