Help keep the Front the way it is now! Increasingly, important habitat along the Rocky Mountain Front is under pressure from the subdivision of private land for residential development. Conservation easements have proven to be a valuable tool for protecting wildlife and a traditional way of life by leaving land in private ownership. However, in order to capitalize on the gains already made, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is in need of renewed funding to purchase additional conservation easements in the coming years. >>
Travel Plan for the Rocky Mountain Front Released!The Coalition applauded the Forest Service for its plan that protects wildlife while emphasizing traditional uses on the Front. On October 1st, the Lewis and Clark released a final Travel Plan for the lower two-thirds of the Rocky Mountain Front covering roughly 390,000 acres, excluding the Badger-Two Medicine area. The Plan will guide all travel, recreation, and other uses on the Front for the next two decades, specifying routes for hikers and horseback riders, snowmobiles and off-road vehicles (ORVs) ...
In The News
The Rocky Mountain Front has been the subject of numerous articles in the local, regional and national press and conservation magazines. As the PBS program "Now with Bill Moyers" was about to air a segment on proposed drilling in October 2004, the Department of Interior unexpectedly announced it was indefinitely suspending an application to drill exploratory wells in the Front’s Blackleaf area.
This section features a sampling of stories, opinion pieces and editorials that have been published in recent years. To obtain photocopies of full articles contact Brian Maffly of the Wilderness Society, brian_maffly@tws.org or 406-586-1600.
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Contacts.
