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Red Ants grant aids ‘citizen science’ in Carter County

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Sabre

Thanks to a chance encounter in Baker, the Carter County Museum in Ekalaka will soon be the proud owner of a powerful microscope that will be used in a citizen project to study ancient insects and plants preserved in amber. Museum Director Sabre Moore ordered the microscope on Wednesday and expects to have it on-site in time for the museum’s flagship event—the Annual Dino Shindig on the last weekend of July. Moore bought the research tool after receiving a $4,300 check from the Red Ants Pants Foundation. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, News, Carter County Museum, Dino Shindig, Nathan Carroll, Red Ants Pants, Sabre Moore, Sarah Calhoun

Ekalaka’s ‘Dino Shindig’ wins honors at tourism conference

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Masama

The Dino Shindig, put on every summer since 2013 by the Carter County Museum in Ekalaka, was named “Event of the Year” Monday night during the Governor’s Conference on Tourism and Recreation in Helena. The two-day event celebrates paleontology and brings in speakers and attendees from all over the world to Ekalaka, way down in the southeast corner of Montana. Last year, one of the speakers was Kirk Johnson, director of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Diversions, Montana, Carter County Museum, Dino Shindig, Nathan Carroll

Medicine Rocks hold eerie beauty, countless inscriptions

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Glow

MEDICINE ROCKS STATE PARK — There is a double allure at this remote 330-acre park in the southeast corner of Montana. One—the obvious one that would seem to comport with the traditional notion of a state park—has to do with the rocks themselves. They are beautiful and majestic, in some cases haunting, wind-sculpted spires of sandstone or great hulking blocks full of arches, tunnels, caves and deep pockmarks. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Diversions, Montana, Ekalaka, Kirsten Johnson, Medicine Rocks State Park, MSU Billings, Nathan Carroll, Tim Urbaniak

Dinosaur researcher hunts for ancient amber near Ekalaka

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Nathan

EKALAKA — In muddy badlands off Powderville Road southwest of Ekalaka, Nathan Carroll is on the hunt for amber. Don’t picture large chunks of bright, translucent amber. Most of what he finds is very small, not much bigger than a ladybug, and they are almost the color of a blood orange, nearly opaque. He and some volunteers have been filling little plastic jars with pieces of amber all summer, and he’s not even sure what he’s got yet. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Diversions, Bureau of Land Management, Carter County Museum, Ekalaka, Jack Horner, Kirsten Johnson, Luis Chiappe, Nathan Carroll