The chance to ski and snowboard in Butte will be offered for one day only as part of the Mining City's first ever Rail Jam.

On March 7, snowboarders and skiers will compete down a man-made snow course in uptown Butte. Discovery Ski Area will send workers to build the course which will include rails, boxes and a 15-foot jump.

Organizers said about 20 dump-trucks of snow will be brought in with the help of Butte-Silver Bow Parks and Rec.

"Along with helping out with multiple street closures, they are going to be the main ones helping out with snow. We're going to be bringing in dump truck loads of snow. Each dump truck load holds about 10 cubic yards of snow and we're planning to build a 350-foot long course at 20-feet wide at about six inches deep," said Matt Boyle, CEO of SHGF Productions, one of the main organizers of the event.

The course will be set up on Arizona Street, from Quartz Street down through Granite and ending at Broadway.

Admission is free to the all-day event which will also feature live music.

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Native American activists gathered in Montana's capital on Tuesday to protest the deaths of hundreds of Yellowstone National Park bison killed this year to ease the worries of Montana ranchers about a cattle disease carried by many park buffalo.

The demonstration marked a week of protests over federal-state management of Yellowstone bison that entails culling the herd each winter when some animals cross from the park into neighboring Montana in search of food.

"This is a new beginning to protect the bison and other wildlife in Indian country," Jimmy St. Goddard, a self-described spiritual leader of the Blackfeet Tribe in Montana, said in a telephone interview from outside the Montana Capitol in Helena.

He was among dozens who gathered to call for an end to the slaughter of Yellowstone buffalo, which are a major attraction for the 3 million people who visit the park. They are the largest purebred herd of wild buffalo in the United States.

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