* Aspen Mountain ( Colorado ), United States, also known as Ajax Mountain

Another influential development was a 1965 lawsuit, Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission, opposing the construction of a power plant on Storm King Mountain, which is said to have given birth to modern United States environmental law.

* 1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.

New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States.

The operation was carried out by elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, the U. S. special forces groups TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, the Norwegian Forsvarets Spesialkommando ( FSK ), Hærens Jegerkommando and Marinejegerkommandoen, Canada's 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Canada's Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and of the New Zealand Special Air Service.

* January 8 – American Indian Wars – Battle of Wolf Mountain: Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry in Montana.

** The U. S. Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States ' nuclear repository.

The first of these, Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, was released for the DS in the United States on November 25, 2009, and for the Apple iPhone and iPod in early January 2010.

The Vermont Army version of the Green Mountain Boys faded away after Vermont joined the United States as the 14th U. S. state in 1791, although the Green Mountain Boys mustered for the War of 1812, The Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and following World War I as the Vermont National Guard.

The operation was composed of elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, TF Rakkasan, B Co. 159th Avn Rgt, 75th Ranger Regiment, the US Special Operation Forces groups to include elements of forces from USSOCOM, JSOC and CIA's Special Activities Division, TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, Canada's 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, the Turkish Maroon Berets, the Norwegian FSK and Marinejegerkommandoen, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment, the New Zealand Special Air Service and Danish special forces from Jægerkorpset and the Danish Frogman Corps.

* Rocky Mountain Institute, a non-profit energy-conservation organization in the United States of America

Nowadays Michif is spoken in scattered Métis communities in the provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada and in North Dakota in the U. S. There are some 230 speakers of Mitchif in the United States ( down from 390 at the 1990 census ), most of whom live in North Dakota, particularly in the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation.

Métis French is best preserved in Canada, Michif in the United States, notably in the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation of North Dakota, where Michif is the official language of the Métis that reside on this Chippewa reservation.

Up to 3, 000 Mountain men were trappers and explorers, employed by various British and United States fur companies or working as free trappers, who roamed the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 to the early 1840s.

Use of mules by U. S. forces has continued during the War in Afghanistan ( 2001-present ), and the United States Marine Corps now conducts an 11-day Animal Packers Course at its Mountain Warfare Training Center located in the Sierra Nevada near Bridgeport, California.

glauca, or Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir, is an evergreen conifer native to the interior mountainous regions of western North America, from central British Columbia and southwest Alberta in Canada southward through the United States to the far north of Mexico.

J. Horace McFarland, the Sierra Club, and the Appalachian Mountain Club persuaded the United States Congress in 1906 to enact legislation to preserve the falls by regulating the waters of Niagara River.

Creative Commons ( CC ) is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.

* In the United States, the California Mountain Unicycle Weekend and the Moab, Utah MUni Fest ( ended as of 2009 ).

** Mountain States

Before they surrendered to United States troops, the Mojave held lands along the river that stretched from Black Canyon, where the tall pillars of First House of Mutavilya loomed above the river, past Avi kwame or Spirit Mountain, the center of spiritual things, to the Quechan Valley, where the lands of other tribes began.

Meanwhile, festivals like the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Rocky-Grass in Lyons, Colorado and the Nederland, Colorado based Yonder Mountain String Band in the United States, and Druhá Tráva in the Czech Republic attract large audiences while expanding the range of progressive bluegrass in the college-jam band atmospheres, often called " jamgrass.

Minimum octane levels are often lower in the Mountain States, where regular unleaded can be rated as low as 85 octane.

Legal setbacks led to the formation of the Green Mountain Boys, whom Allen led in a campaign of intimidation and property destruction to drive New York settlers from the Grants.

High-profile failures included Birds of Prey ( inspired by the Batman mythos which premiered with an impressive 8 share ), Tarzan, Jack & Bobby, The Mountain, Jerry Bruckheimer's Just Legal, Marta Kauffman's Related, and the Rebecca Romijn vehicle Pepper Dennis.

However, several climbers along with the Mountain States Legal Foundation sued the Park Service, claiming an inappropriate government entanglement with religion.

She also worked as Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture and, from 1979 to 1983, as a Senior Attorney for the Mountain States Legal Foundation.

During 1976, Watt initiated the Mountain States Legal Foundation, a law company " dedicated to individual liberty, the right to own and use property, limited and ethical government and economic freedom.

Greenpeace has criticized The Mountain States Legal Foundation as " training ground for a number of attorneys most active in the anti-environmental movement.

The conflict over climbing at Devils Tower, Wyoming, escalated into a legal battle in 1997 when Mountain States Legal Foundation and several commercial climbers sued the National Park Service for asking climbers and tourists to respect Native American beliefs about the tower.

Mountain States Legal Foundation represented Adarand Constructors.

The plaintiffs are The King ’ s English, Inc .; Sam Weller ’ s Zion Bookstore ; Nathan Florence ; W. Andrew McCullough ; Computer Solutions International, Inc .; Mountain Wireless Utah, LLC ; the Sexual Health Network, Inc., Utah Progressive Network Education Fund, Inc .; the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression ; the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah ; the Association of American Publishers ; the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund ; the Freedom to Read Foundation ; and the Publishers Marketing Association.

Canadian Ambassador William Crosbie makes remarks during the opening of the refurbished Turquoise Mountain Foundation in Kabul on May 9, 2011.

* Wet Mountain Valley Community Foundation

Ride, Six By Seven, Mogwai, Bardo Pond, The Flowers of Hell, Yume Bitsu, 7 % Solution, Lockgroove, Luna, Windy & Carl, Five Way Mirror, The Third Eye Foundation, American Analog Set, Black Mountain, Flying Saucer Attack, Asteroid No. 4, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Colorsound, The Warlocks, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Icarus Line, The Morning After Girls, Scarling, and Wooden Shjips.

He was teacher in Residence at Shambhala Mountain Center from 1996 – 2004, and co-founded the Dharma Ocean Foundation, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the practice, study and preservation of the teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and the practice lineage he embodied.

Smurfit-Stone partners with organizations such as the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, the Michigan United Conservation Club, and the Alabama Treasure Forest Association.

Granite suppliers in Georgia sent stone samples cut from Stone Mountain to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Foundation to be considered for use in a planned monument in King's honor ; the Foundation later chose to use granite imported from China.

After controversy raised by opponents of the harvesting plan, the club moved to clearly establish their qualification for the permit by offering to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation in Missoula, Montana for a conservation easement.

Rock climbing, closed for several decades on the Giant because of accidents, was permitted as of 2007 ; the Ragged Mountain Foundation, a non-profit rock climbing group, advises climbers to " please observe park regulations.

Southwestern NC Planning and Economic Development Commission, Community Foundation of WNC, & the Lawrence Group Architects of NC, Inc., ( 2009 ), Region A Toolbox, A Pilot of the Mountain Landscapes Initiative, Sylva, NC.

In 1985, he founded the Institute of Chung-Hwa Buddhist Studies in Taipei and the International Cultural and Educational Foundation of Dharma Drum Mountain in 1989.

The Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation sponsors natural science research in the region, including the HMC lands.

* Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation

The center is operated as a partnership between Weyerhaeuser Company, Washington State Department of Transportation and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.

The remaining have been purchased by the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, a non-profit organization established in 1996 to memorialize the center's internees and to interpret the site's historical significance.

This wooden tribute stood for five decades until the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation removed the deteriorating display for preservation.

The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation opened the Heart Mountain Wyoming Interpretive Learning Center on August 20, 2011.

* Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation