Hi-Line Living: Data collected at Beaver Creek for future generations

Montana State University-Northern has partnered with several different agencies and the Hill County Park Board to start a long-term monitoring program for Beaver Creek Park to collect data on the changing ecosystem in the park.

"Her database is something that we can use 100 years from now," community member Lou Hagener said of Northern Associate Professor Terri Hildebrand's research, "to say here, OK, this is what we had."

Hagener has been helping Hildebrand with her study of natural resources on the park, along with to a number of her students.

Hildebrand said several agencies and members of...