A Missoulian Made a Handy Map Showing the Best Places to Go River Swimming
All hail Reddit user knobye36! They have made a Google Map of all of the best swimming holes around the Missoula area. I ve lived here my entire life and still haven t been to many of the best spots because I either forget they exist or don t know how to access them. Love em or not, out-of-state tourists will also find this map to be quite handy. This user was kind enough to share the map, so please be respectful and clean up after yourself at each swimming hole.
A Missoulian Made a Handy Map Showing the Best Places to Go River Swimming
All hail Reddit user knobye36! They have made a Google Map of all of the best swimming holes around the Missoula area. I ve lived here my entire life and still haven t been to many of the best spots because I either forget they exist or don t know how to access them. Love em or not, out-of-state tourists will also find this map to be quite handy. This user was kind enough to share the map, so please be respectful and clean up after yourself at each swimming hole.
Bitterroot Outdoor Journal
As winter starts to lose its grip, the birds are picking areas for nesting activities in the area. This week s Bitterroot Outdoor Journal (heard Wednesday mornings at 7:45 on 1240 AM KLYQ and www.klyq.com) had examples of some home-building by the birds.
Bob Danley said avian action is happening along the Bitterroot River, including Wood Ducks, Bohemian Waxwings and soon to arrive - bluebirds. He also noted Red-winged Blackbird songs (photo below) and saw some Dark-eyed Juncos starting to nest.
The larger birds have found their usual favorite nesting places, including the Great Horned Owl. The photo above shows how well the coloring of the bird blends in with the cottonwood tree it has selected. You can hear them at twilight as the dating goes on, starting about 6 p.m. Bob says your chances of finding nesting owls are better on the north end of the Bitterroot and in the Missoula valley. They lay eggs from mid-February through mid-March.
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Bitterroot Outdoor Journal
Bob Danley of the Bitterroot Outdoor Journal recently walked out along the Bitterroot River at Maclay Flat. Doing so, he noted a bird, a mammal, a tree and a lichen to encompass a wide range of natural features in one easy-to-access location.
This Lolo National Forest area is mainly populated with Ponderosa Pine trees (photo below). The trees can grow up to 195 feet and they do best in dry soils. We see many of them on western Montana mountainsides. In fact, you can find Ponderosa Pine on about 27 million acres of the West, Bob says.
In the lower branches of the tree is a lichen that lives on the bare branch beyond the conifer needles (see photo below). The Brown-eyed Sunshine Lichen grows year-round and is only about one and half inches in diameter. The bright yellow color is obvious. It has what look like brown eyes. That s where the reproductive spores are released. It is not a parasite on the tree and instead relies on rain and moisture to survive.