| | | Newsletter from Montana - Minnesota
June 2011
The weather is so nice, I sure hope you have a chance to get away from your desk and enjoy the sunshine. Too hot, to go outside? Take a trip to Montana and see how nice it is here! Blue sky, white puffy clouds and I posted new photos if you really can't get here to see for yourself:
Here is a new gallery for the lot downtown Red Lodge right along the rushing water of Rock Creek.
This lot has its own densely forested island - so bring the kids and pitch a Teepee! The 2.24 acreage next door is for sale for $1,290,000 if you are interested. Backlots are for sale starting at $150,000, but they sit on the slippery hill. The lot I have for sale with 88feet of waterfront is $ 265,000
The four acres south of town now have photos without snow. I did leave the snow photos in the 2nd gallery since this lot is so close to the ski slopes and if you are an avid skier I am sure you would want to see what it looks like when you live there in winter.
If you have a horse, I am sure you will enjoy the 5.5 acres north of town on Horseshoe Trail. It has delicious timothy grass growing on it, which is exported from here all the way to the East Coast!
Due to all the rain here in Montana, we will have a bumper crop regarding hay again this year.
If you were also thinking to do some serious ranching or at least getting a few cows, chickens and a goat, I now have 480 acres for sale near Fort Benton. Two barns are already there, along with off the grid solar and wind power. There are new photos posted there as well. The field/land shots are showing three types of crop in different fields on the property; natural grasses mixed with alfalfa, Winter Wheat and Peas, all looking good and green:
Even the reservoir in the north is full of water, I do not have photos of it yet, but I will as soon as the 4-wheeler comes back out of the shop - keep watching for it!
We bought our last batch of chickens online at the Cackle Hatchery.
Try not to get the "mixed bag" with all the different chickens. We did that, and they did not get along. Chickens are just like people, always picking on the one who is different, you might know the feeling.
And then of course there are the
160 acres near Glendive for sale for just $110,000. You would still have to install your own electricity since you are off the grid out there as well.
You can find amazing agates along the Yellowstone River which flows through the city. Get a tumbler or a rock cutter and take a handful with you to bribe and surprise people on trips to other parts of the country.
Already all set up with barn, home, irrigation rights, pond and fully fenced and cross fenced is the
80 acres farm in Frannie, Wyoming. Just an hour away from Billings or Cody for just $310,000 - make an offer on the cows and horses!
More Montana listings can be found at
Montana Here I Come!
My company is still licensed in Minnesota and North Dakota, but I personally hung up my license there, even though I still maintain the website for Mike Olson. We made him director of those states for the company and he is our supervising broker in that part of the country:
Minnesota Here I Come!
His phone number is posted on the website and his email is
MikeOlson@vcn.com
I am still licensed in Montana and Wyoming!
While Western Montana was hardly affected by flood waters this year, I found out that that one of the fascinating events of the last ice age was a series of cataclysmic floods associated with Glacial Lake Missoula. The shorelines of the ancient lake can be seen along the mountainsides around Missoula. According to some geologists the lake was 950 feet deep where Missoula sits today. During the last ice age the glacial ice came down from the Arctic, covering Canada with a continental glacier that was over two miles thick in places (Minnesota!). At its maximum (about 18,000 years ago) the ice sheet advanced as far south as New York City, Ohio, and central Montana. In central Montana the now infamous Missouri River marks the southern edge of the glacier. As the ice extended into western Montana and Idaho, it blocked the flow of the Clark Fork River. The Clark Fork starts near Butte, flows west through Missoula, and then NW into Idaho. Eventually it flows into the Columbia River, which empties into the Pacific Ocean near Portland. As ice blocked the flow of the Clark Fork water began to build up south and east of the ice dam. This formed a huge lake that geologists have named "Glacial Lake Missoula."
At its highest Lake Missoula was 2,000 feet deep and contained about as much water as Lake Erie. The lake extended as far east as Drummond in the Clark Fork Valley and south to Darby in the Bitterroot Valley. When the ice dam broke it created a cataclysmic flash flood of incredible proportions. Starting at the western border of Montana where Highway 200 goes into Idaho at Pend Orielle Lake the water thundered through Spokane and continued across eastern Washington to the Columbia River, scouring the land as it swept through, which happened more than 40 times between 12,000 and 15,000 years ago, damming itself up with ice in between floods. It left amazing landscapes behind, such as "Dry Falls" which was a waterfall five times the size of the Niagara Falls and taking gigantic boulder from Montana all the way into the Willamette Valley of Oregon! Check out the photos at the
Montana Natural History Museum's website.
Hope the story about ice cooled you off a bit...
:-)
Best Regards,
Dorothea Lowe, Broker
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