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Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. 2005. Accessed 2010-06-20. Now You Know: A Collection of Facts and Figures About... Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. December 2007. Accessed 2010-06-15. Sanderson, James and Moulton, Michael. Wildlife Issues in a Changing World. 2d ed ...
The Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge (abbreviated as the CMR NWR) is a National Wildlife Refuge in the U.S. state of Montana on the Missouri River.The refuge surrounds Fort Peck Reservoir and is 915,814 acres (3,706.17 km 2) in size. [2]
The CSKT Bison Range (BR) is a nature reserve on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana established for the conservation of American bison.Formerly called the National Bison Range, the size of the bison herd at the BR is 350 adult bison and welcomes 50–60 calves per year.
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service purchased the land in 1980. The refuge is located next to Hailstone Lake, a natural basin that was enhanced to 300 acres in the 1930s under the Works Project Administration . [ 2 ]
The Selway–Bitterroot Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the states of Idaho and Montana, in the northwestern United States. [1] [2] At 1.3 million acres (5,300 km²), it is one of the largest designated wilderness areas in the United States (14th overall, but third-largest outside Alaska).
In the 1980s, the state of Montana began stopping general stocking of all Montana rivers. The last hatchery fish were stocked in the Big Hole in 1990. [22] Dozens of guides, outfitters and fishing lodges offer guided fishing on the Big Hole and its tributaries. [citation needed] The river is catch and release for brown trout (Dickey bridge to ...
The state acquired the park site from The Nature Conservancy in 2010. The property had been part of the 310,000 acres The Nature Conservancy and The Trust for Public Land purchased in 2008 from Plum Creek Timber as part of the Montana Legacy Project through which the company divested a large portion of its holdings for purposes of conservation and use by the public.
The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks operate approximately 275,265 acres (1,113.96 km 2) of state parks and access points on the state's rivers and lakes. The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation manages 5,200,000 acres (21,000 km 2) of School Trust Land ceded by the federal government under the Land Ordinance ...