Sweet Grass Hills, Montana

Fire Control – A Conservation Tool for certain Medical Plants in Grass Hills Ecosystem, The Western Ghats

Grass Hills ecosystem lies in Anaimalais. The western ghats possesses rich biodiversity, The annual summer fire, an integral part of this ecosystem, promotes the ecological status of certain perennial grasses including the dominant grass. Chrysopogon zeylanicus Thw. On the other hand, some medicinal plants Viz., Impatiens tomentosa Heyne, Drosera peltata Sm Osbeckia parviflora Arn., Emilia sonc...

The Nature Conservancy Element Stewardship Abstract For Anthoxanthum odoratum I. IDENTIFIERS Common Name: SWEET VERNAL GRASS Global Rank: G? General Description: Anthoxanthum odoratum is a sweet-smelling perennial grass with flat blades and spikelike

Element Stewardship Abstracts (ESAs) are prepared to provide The Nature Conservancy's Stewardship staff and other land managers with current management-related information on those species and communities that are most important to protect, or most important to control. The abstracts organize and summarize data from numerous sources including literature and researchers and managers actively wor...

Tobacco Root Mountains, Montana

Meta-ultramafi c rocks occur as small (2 to 100 m long), podiform bodies in all three major Precambrian rock suites of the Tobacco Root Mountains of southwest Montana. Most samples consist of a randomly oriented, coarse-grained assemblage of orthopyroxene, olivine, and magnesiohornblende ± spinel, partially replaced by a fi ne-grained assemblage that may include anthophyllite, talc, cummingtoni...

Deadly radon in montana?

Noting a negative correlation between average radon levels and lung cancer mortality in Montana counties, Hart (2011) “questions the notion that radon is deadly in Montana.” Results from a much larger ecological study of the correlation between county radon levels and lung cancer mortality across the whole United States were published in the 1990s (Cohen 1990, 1995). Like Hart, Cohen found an i...

Mole Hills from Mountains