{"id":251,"date":"2012-06-18T21:32:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T02:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2012-06-18T21:33:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T02:33:57","slug":"changing-land-use-on-the-hi-line-northern-tier-across-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/changing-land-use-on-the-hi-line-northern-tier-across-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing land use on the Hi-Line &#8211; northern tier across Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/driving-cattle1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/driving-cattle1-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"driving cattle the old fashioned way\" title=\"driving-cattle\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-253\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/driving-cattle1-300x232.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/driving-cattle1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>US Highway 2 is known here as the Hi-Line. As I cross Montana I have seen changes in the land use. In the west wheat dominated the landscape. Today I saw cattle and grassland. After crossing the Milk River the first time I started to see trees.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a picture camping in a city park in Malta, MT Sunday night. Just about the time we turned in &#8211; (9:30pm) the rain started with very strong winds. Being under the shelter instead of on the grass turned out to be the better choice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/camping-Malta-MT1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/camping-Malta-MT1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"camping under the shelter\" title=\"camping-Malta-MT\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-255\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/camping-Malta-MT1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/camping-Malta-MT1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; US Highway 2 is known here as the Hi-Line. As I cross Montana I have seen changes in the land use. In the west wheat dominated the landscape. Today I saw cattle and grassland. After crossing the Milk River the first time I started to see trees. Below is a picture camping in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ride-segments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}