Connectivity and public access. Those benefits –among others –highlight a project that has positive wide-ranging impacts today and beyond.
Though small in size, the property has big public access implications. It sits adjacent to 12,000 acres of public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service and State of Montana.
In 2022, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation worked with a landowner and the BLM to conserve a 40-acre piece of riparian and wildlife habitat southwest of Butte in western Montana.
Lying within the Fleecer Mountains, the transaction connects critical winter range for elk, mule deer and moose.
It also protects important riparian habitat and spawning areas for trout in Johnson Creek, an important tributary of the Big Hole River.
