Lewistown is home to the annual Chokecherry Festival, which
includes a chokecherry cooking competition, a pit spitting contest, and a 5k run.
Lewistown is home to the annual Chokecherry Festival, which
includes a chokecherry cooking competition, a pit spitting contest, and a 5k run.
In Montana, examples of first foods and plants that are found in forests and open woodlands
include camas (Camassia quamash), purple coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia),
chokecherry (Prunus virginiana), red raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.), huckleberries (Vaccinium spp.), kinnick - kinnick (Arcostaphylos uva - ursi), wood's rose (Rosa woodsii), wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana), arrowleaf balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata), and fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium), in addition to deer, elk, and other game.