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Ranger Sarah with a few of the quartz crystal she found at Crystal Park.
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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Ranger Sarah with a few of the quartz crystal she found at Crystal Park. — at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
August 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Ranger Sarah takes in the vie from the northern end of Cottonwood Lake.
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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Ranger Sarah takes in the vie from the northern end of Cottonwood Lake. — at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
September 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Ranger Sarah looks south at Cottonwood Lake.
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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Ranger Sarah looks south at Cottonwood Lake. — at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
September 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Bloody Dick Cabin in the Beaverhead Mountains www.fs.usda.gov/r01/beaverhe...
Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest : Recreation Site - Bloody Dick Cabin
Bloody Dick Cabin, named after the English Trapper Richard "Bloody" Leigh, is a small wood frame cabin. Nestled in the evergreens near Reservoir Lake in Southwestern Montana's Beaverhead Mountains - t...
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February 26, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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Ranger Sarah crosses over a bridge over a small stream.
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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Ranger Sarah crosses over a bridge over a small stream. — at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
August 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Ranger Sarah takes a moment to enjoy the cascading creek.
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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Ranger Sarah takes a moment to enjoy the cascading creek. — at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
August 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Ranger Sarah takes in another view of Cottonwood Lake as she continues hiking the Thunderbolt Creek Trail.
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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Ranger Sarah takes in another view of Cottonwood Lake as she continues hiking the Thunderbolt Creek Trail. — at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
September 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Ranger Sarah senses that Cottonwood Lake is near.
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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Ranger Sarah senses that Cottonwood Lake is near. — at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
September 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Ranger Sarah continues her hike through the Coolidge Ghost Town.
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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Ranger Sarah continues her hike through the Coolidge Ghost Town. — at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
August 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Ranger Sarah with the view of Cottonwood Lake from the south.
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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Ranger Sarah with the view of Cottonwood Lake from the south. — at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
September 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Ranger Sarah learns more about quartz crystals.
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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August 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Wise River, Montana, in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. The region has a history of indigenous presence, notably from the Shoshone, Salish, and Nez Perce. It’s where Sacagawea scouted for Lewis and Clark. #geography #history #nature #photo
Fading daylight at Wise River, Montana, in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. The region has a history of indigenous presence, notably from the Shoshone, Salish, and Nez Perce. It’s where Sacagawea scouted for Lewis and Clark.
September 26, 2024 at 7:42 AM
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Ranger Sarah with a view of Cottonwood Lake from the Northeast shore.
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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Ranger Sarah with a view of Cottonwood Lake from the Northeast shore. — at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
September 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Ranger Sarah with some more of the Coolidge Ghost Town Ruins.
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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Ranger Sarah with some more of the Coolidge Ghost Town Ruins. — at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
August 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Today is National Public Lands Day. Public lands are fundamental and unique to the United States, and public lands have been a meaningful part of my life. Keep public lands in public hands.
Photos from two weeks ago in Montana’s Lolo and Beaverhead-Deerlodge national forests.
September 26, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Ranger Sarah learns how the crystals formed here. You can read about this and more at www.fs.usda.gov/.../Crystal%....
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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Ranger Sarah learns how the crystals formed here. You can read about this and more at https://www.fs.usda.gov/.../Crystal%20Park%20Recreational... — at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
August 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Ranger Sarah and BARK Ranger Mocha cross a bridge over another small creek.
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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Ranger Sarah and BARK Ranger Mocha cross a bridge over another small creek. — at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
August 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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BARK Ranger Mocha leads the way as she and Ranger Sarah hike towards Cottonwood Lake.
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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BARK Ranger Mocha leads the way as she and Ranger Sarah hike towards Cottonwood Lake. — at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
August 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Ranger Sarah with a look at Thunderbolt Creek.
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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Ranger Sarah with a look at Thunderbolt Creek. — at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
August 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Ranger Sarah found a much better sign for Crystal Park.
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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Ranger Sarah found a much better sign for Crystal Park. — at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
August 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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We are hearing we will lose 300 people in Region 1 of the forest service. Firings started yesterday on the Beaverhead Deerlodge NF with 33 people. No official confirmation just what employees are hearing from each other.
February 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest ... did not visit this one yet
huntnfish8.bsky.social MJM Grand @huntnfish8.bsky.social · Jun 8
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Montana Pioneer Mountains and Beaverhead National Forest
The Pioneer Mountains rise here in broad, layered ranks above the deep forests of the Beaverhead National Forest. Snow still lingers on the higher slopes and cirque basins, tracing the shape of gullies and avalanche chutes long after spring has reached the valleys below. The highest peaks, rounded in places by ancient glaciers and sharply carved in others, form a distant skyline of gray rock and white snow. The foreground is dominated by an unbroken mantle of conifer forest. Dark green stands of subalpine fir, Engelmann spruce, lodgepole pine, and Douglas-fir blanket the mountainsides, filling every fold and drainage. The forested ridges descend into a broad valley where streams, hidden beneath the canopy, gather snowmelt from the peaks above. The sky reveals a common feature of Montana’s mountain weather. Bands of smooth, layered clouds stretch across the blue, shaped by strong winds flowing over the ranges. Above them drift scattered cumulus clouds whose bright sunlit tops contrast with darker undersides. Together they hint at moisture and changing weather moving across the Continental Divide region. The scene captures one of the defining characteristics of the Beaverhead country: immense scale. Forested ridges overlap one another for miles, each darker and more subdued with distance, while the snow-covered summits anchor the horizon. Human structures are absent from view, leaving a landscape shaped primarily by geology, climate, wildfire, snow, and time. From this vantage, the Pioneer Mountains appear less as individual peaks than as a connected mountain system—a vast watershed and forest ecosystem where alpine tundra, lingering snowfields, and dense conifer forests merge into one of Montana’s largest stretches of relatively undeveloped mountain country.
June 9, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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Ranger Sarah hikes through another meadow on the Thunderbolt Trail.
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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Ranger Sarah hikes through another meadow on the Thunderbolt Trail. — at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
August 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Ranger Sarah learns about William R. Allen a former U.S. representative who developed the Elkhorn mining district.
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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Ranger Sarah learns about William R. Allen a former U.S. representative who developed the Elkhorn mining district. — at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
August 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Ranger Sarah has found the spots she wants to dig at.
— at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

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Ranger Sarah has found the spots she wants to dig at. — at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
August 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM