ShoshoneNewsPress.com CAMPFIRE OK - Strange Like We Are - OUT NOW! Central Washington University The Alaska Star KEXP 90.3 FM - where the music matters Yummy Montana - Montana food festivals 2011 January January 19, 23-26 Montana Winter Fair events include chili cook-off, cinnamon roll cook-off, Death by Chocolate baking competition, and Dutch oven cooking—watch for the cookbook containing Death by Chocolate winning entries Lewistown, Mont. February February 8 Feb Fest Helena, Mont. February Chocolate Festival Anaconda, Mont. March March 21-22 Made in Montana Trade Show Public is invited on Saturday (March 22), 9 am - 4 pm Helena, Mont. find many unique items at the Made In Montana show May May 4 Taste of Bigfork Bigfork, Mont. May 17 Cherry Fest Yellow Bay, Mont. June June 6-8 Whoop-Up Days and Rhubarb Festival Rhubarb Festival is Saturday, 10 am - 5 pm Conrad, Mont. prize-winning desserts can be found at the Conrad Rhubarb Festival June 14 (second Saturday in June) Billings Strawberry Festival Billings, Mont. preparing a very large strawberry shortcake at the Billings Strawberry Festival June 14-15 Pioneer Power Day Threshing Bee Lewistown, Mont. July August September October
Ketchikan Daily News Department of Natural Resources and Conservation Homepage Seattle News Online | Pacific Northwest News Online LSU Shreveport Bakersfield.com - Kern County news, events, shopping & search Yellowstone Has Bulged as Magma Pocket Swells The simmering volcano has produced major eruptions—each a thousand times more powerful than Mount St. Helens's 1980 eruption—three times in the past 2.1 million years. Yellowstone's caldera, which covers a 25- by 37-mile (40- by 60-kilometer) swath of Wyoming , is an ancient crater formed after the last big blast, some 640,000 years ago. (See "When Yellowstone Explodes" in magazine.) Since then, about 30 smaller eruptions—including one as recent as 70,000 years ago—have filled the caldera with lava and ash, producing the relatively flat landscape we see today. But beginning in 2004, scientists saw the ground above the caldera rise upward at rates as high as 2.8 inches (7 centimeters) a year. The rate slowed between 2007 and 2010 to a centimeter a year or less. "It's an extraordinary uplift, because it covers such a large area and the rates are so high," said the University of Utah's Bob Smith , a longtime expert in Yellowstone's volcanism. Smith and colleagues at the U.S.