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1,009,364 acres (4,084.75 km 2) Established. 1964. Governing body. U.S. Forest Service. The Bob Marshall Wilderness Area is a congressionally-designated wilderness area located in Western Montana region of the United States. It is named after Bob Marshall (1901–1939), an early forester in the federal government, conservationist, and co ...
Headquarters for Stillwater State Forest. Clearwater State Forest, Missoula County, Montana, el. 3,802 feet (1,15; Coal Creek State Forest, Flathead County, Montana ...
The Beaverhead–Deerlodge National Forest is the largest of the National Forests in Montana, United States. Covering 3.36 million acres (13,600 km 2), the forest is broken into nine separate sections and stretches across eight counties in the southwestern area of the state. President Theodore Roosevelt named the two forests in 1908 and they ...
The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering 193 million acres (780,000 km 2) of land. [5] The major divisions of the agency are the Chief's Office, National Forest System, State and Private Forestry, Business ...
The Flathead National Forest is a national forest in the western part of the U.S. state of Montana. The forest lies primarily in Flathead County, south of Glacier National Park. The forest covers 2,404,935 acres (3,758 sq mi; 9,732 km 2) of which about 1 million acres (4,000 km 2) is designated wilderness. It is named after the Flathead Native ...
Website. Lewis and Clark National Forest. Lewis and Clark National Forest is located in west central Montana, United States. Spanning 2,912 square miles (7,500 km 2). The region was inhabited by various cultures of Native Americans for a period of at least 8,000–10,000 years. When the Lewis and Clark Expedition came to this area, different ...
Jefferson National Forest in Montana was established by the U.S. Forest Service on July 1, 1908 with 1,255,320 acres (5,080.1 km 2) from the consolidation of Little Belt, Highwood Mountains, Snowy Mountains and Little Rockies National Forests. On April 8, 1932 the entire forest was transferred to Lewis and Clark National Forest, the name ...
July 20, 2024 at 1:36 PM. Danita Delimont/Alamy Stock Photo/File. A 72-year-old Montana man shot and killed a grizzly bear after it attacked him while he was alone picking huckleberries, according ...