Nature Mishmash (mostly Montana...)

5. Hardest known mineral
9. Mountain in the Jewel Basin
10. A glacier in GNP named after George Bird _______, a conservationist and explorer
12. A name of a glacier in Glacier National Park, also a president
13. A blue sapphire only found in Montana
15. A plant that sprouts up after a fire
17. A special variety of these known as Flathead grown in Montana
18. Tallest peak in GNP
19. A chalet and glacier in GNP
20. The other most common metamorphic rock in Yellowstone
21. A glacier in GNP, could also describe fast moving water
24. In Yellowstone. Bring your brushes...
28. A red or green sedimentary rock, seen in GNP
29. A metal once mined in Butte (symbol Cu)
31. Native American group. Largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi.
32. A plant native to Montana. Typically blooms every five to ten years.
34. Black, brown, or grizzly

1. Rocks and sediment carried down and deposited by a glacier
2. One of the most common metamorphic rocks in Yellowstone
3. A state, and a type of 26 down
4. Typically green, sounds like turpentine.
6. Known as "Father of the National Parks"
7. Famous 'old' geyser in Yellowstone
8. A tart fruit that grows in Idaho and Montana. Won't you be my ___________
10. A rock filled with crystals (or other minerals)
11. Big ___ Country
14. One of the chalets in Glacier National Park (GNP)
16. _______ Basin. Collection of colorful thermal pools and geysers in Yellowstone.
18. A photographer of Native Americans
22. A flower or type of quartz
23. purple variety of quartz
25. First part of a red flower
26. Frequently sold in 'slices', a beautiful surprise that forms within volcanic and metamorphic rocks
27. Silicate mineral, featuring sheets you can separate easily
30. Second part of a red flower, also an artist's tool
33. Stone harboring fossils