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Crews are still pulling up 300-year-old logs from the bottom of Flathead Lake.
The Flathead National Forest covers 2,404,935 acres, meaning each person living in Flathead County could have about
25 acres to themselves.
LSEWHERE...
There have been nearly 100 reported sightings of the so- called Flathead Lake Monster since the first documented sighting in 1889, when James C. Kerr, captain of the U.S. Grant lake steamboat,
reported
seeing a
“large
whale-
like
object”
in the
water.
Montana is the fourth largest state in the U.S., by area. You cOULD fit Virginia, Delaware,
Pennsylvania and New York within its borders and still have room for the District
In 2010, Montana was home to
an average of
6.8 people per square mile. In comparison, there are 239 people per square mile in California.
of Columbia.