travel Activites WILDFLOWER
LODGE
CYCLIST
HIKING TRAIL
BALD EAGLE
LEAF
MUSHROOM
BEAR!
SUNSET
BUTTERFLY
BURGER
TENT
ANIMAL TRACK
RAFTERS
TROUT
SUNNY DAY
MUSEUM CAMPER VAN
CAMPFIRE
DID YOU KNOW... Many different rocks are found in the mountains of Montana? Over a long, long time, Montana has had a wild geologic history. Early on it was covered by a giant lake. Then it was smashed into high mountains, cut by volcanoes and glaciers, and an ocean covered the eastern part of the state! Making mountains produces a lot of neat crystals (like garnet and kyanite). Volcanoes create volcanic flows that turn into basalt. The magma that forms volcanoes can turn quartz into sapphires. And the edges of what use to be oceans were a popular place for dinosaurs, who laid eggs and became fossils themselves. Scott Close is a metal exploration geologist and entrepreneur who loves to learn and educate. Scott holds a degrees from Montana State University and Simon Fraser University and lives with his family in Bozeman, often wandering around new and remote places seeking the next mineral discovery. 14
summer 2021
BUFFALO
MUSEUM
BE SURE TO LOOK OUT FOR THESE WHEN YOU ROAM IN HIILLS! DINO EGGS Choteau, Egg Mountain
GARNET
Tobacco Root Mountains
T.REX SAPHIRE
Hell Creek, Fort Peck
Yogo, Little Belt Mountains
BASALT COLUMNS HERKIMER QUARTZ Crystal Park, Pioneer Mountains
KYANITE
Spanish Peaks
Hyalite, Gallatin National Forest
