Fast Facts

• Unemployment rate on Crow Reservation: 85 percent
  
  
• Overall unemployment rate in Montana: 3.9 percent
  
  
• Number of visitors to Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in 2001: 331,332
  
  
• Population of Crow Reservation: 6,498
  
  
• Size of largest U.S. wildfire in 2002 (Biscuit Fire, Oregon): 499,570 acres
  
  
• Number of fatalities: 0
  
  
• Size of largest U.S. wildfire on record (Wisconsin-Michigan, 1871): 3.8 million acres
  
  
• Number of fatalities: 1,500
  
  
• Number of fuel-reduction projects proposed by the Forest Service in 2001: 1,671
  
  
• Number appealed: 20
  
  
• Number over which lawsuits were filed: 0
  
  
• Decline in national forest timber sales between 1990 and 2000: 82 percent
  
  
• Increase in Forest Service fire budget during that time: 700 percent
  
  Sources: Crow Tribal Government, Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Park Service, National Interagency Fire Center, General Accounting Office, Thoreau Institute