11. The Rocky Mountain Front is such an important geologic feature that it affects the weather in North America. 12. Heavy coal, oil, and natural gas development along the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana began in the 1970s. 13. As early as 1935, it was well-recognized that significant coal resources underlay the Rocky Mountain Front in Alberta. 14. The federal government is now facing an equally fateful choice in the Rocky Mountain Front in western Montana. 15. Clouds also covered much of the eastern Rocky Mountain front range through New Mexico and the Pacific Northwest. 16. Nearly 80 percent of Utah's 2 million people live along an 80-mile urban strip abutting the Wasatch Mountain Front . 17. The Rocky Mountain Front forms the eastern boundary of a triangular area of volcanic activity centered on western Colorado. 18. According to tribal oral histories, humans lived near the Rocky Mountain Front for thousands of years before European contact. 19. Winds, while strong at times, are considered light compared with the rest of Montana and the Rocky Mountain Front . 20. The Rocky Mountain Front in Wyoming was the believed in the 1970s to have extensive oil and natural gas reserves.
