Save Montana's Public Land
- by: Montana Wilderness Association
- recipient: Stan Benes, District Manager, Central Montana BLM
Central Montana's public lands are some of the most beautiful in the nation and are home to a wide variety of rare animals like the sage grouse, elk, mule deer, and antelope. But they are being threatened. If we don't act now, central Montana's majestic landscape and wildlife may soon be scarred by oil and gas fields, transmission corridors, and other energy projects.
The Bureau of Land Management Field Office is preparing a plan to manage more than 650,000 acres of public land over the next 20 years.
This is our chance to speak out and save Montana's public lands. The remaining undeveloped BLM lands in central Montana represent a very small portion of a very large landscape, and they include critical wildlife habitat and great opportunities for recreation.
Montana Wilderness Association has identified some 150,000 acres of remote, undeveloped land that still have all the characteristics of wilderness, from Musselshell Breaks to the Judith Mountains, prairie lands north of Winnett to the Arrow Creek Breaks.
The BLM needs to hear from you today. Tell them to protect our public lands and keep central Montana beautiful!
The Bureau of Land Management Field Office is preparing a plan to manage more than 650,000 acres of public land over the next 20 years.
This is our chance to speak out and save Montana's public lands. The remaining undeveloped BLM lands in central Montana represent a very small portion of a very large landscape, and they include critical wildlife habitat and great opportunities for recreation.
Montana Wilderness Association has identified some 150,000 acres of remote, undeveloped land that still have all the characteristics of wilderness, from Musselshell Breaks to the Judith Mountains, prairie lands north of Winnett to the Arrow Creek Breaks.
The BLM needs to hear from you today. Tell them to protect our public lands and keep central Montana beautiful!
Dear Mr. Benes,
I urge you to do the following as you prepare the management plan for the more than 650,000 acres of public land from the Musselshell Breaks to the Rocky Mountain front:
• Conduct a wilderness inventory on all BLM lands 5,000 acres or greater to assess naturalness, opportunities for solitude or primitive recreation, and supplemental values such as wildlife, historic and cultural sites, and geologic features etc., in accordance with the with the most recent BLM wilderness guidelines.
• Incorporate citizen wilderness inventories in the planning process.
• Identify areas and waterways with wildlife or wildland values that are not fulfilling their potential because of noxious weeds, past commercial activities or ground disturbances that could be restored.
• Give special consideration to conserving land near existing wildlife refuges or protected areas, are in the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act, or provide critical wildlife habitat.
• Identify sites with noxious weeds and where off-road vehicles have scarred the land or conflict with other users. Urge the BLM to take steps — even if only temporary — to keep those problems from getting worse.
• Identify opportunities to improve public access and consolidate public lands through conservation easements, land trades, and land acquisitions.
• Identify areas where industrial activities – oil and gas wells, transmission lines, pipelines, wind farms, communication towers, mines — will have the least impact and direct development there.
[Your comments will go here]
Sincerely,
[Your name]
Sign PetitionSign PetitionI urge you to do the following as you prepare the management plan for the more than 650,000 acres of public land from the Musselshell Breaks to the Rocky Mountain front:
• Conduct a wilderness inventory on all BLM lands 5,000 acres or greater to assess naturalness, opportunities for solitude or primitive recreation, and supplemental values such as wildlife, historic and cultural sites, and geologic features etc., in accordance with the with the most recent BLM wilderness guidelines.
• Incorporate citizen wilderness inventories in the planning process.
• Identify areas and waterways with wildlife or wildland values that are not fulfilling their potential because of noxious weeds, past commercial activities or ground disturbances that could be restored.
• Give special consideration to conserving land near existing wildlife refuges or protected areas, are in the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act, or provide critical wildlife habitat.
• Identify sites with noxious weeds and where off-road vehicles have scarred the land or conflict with other users. Urge the BLM to take steps — even if only temporary — to keep those problems from getting worse.
• Identify opportunities to improve public access and consolidate public lands through conservation easements, land trades, and land acquisitions.
• Identify areas where industrial activities – oil and gas wells, transmission lines, pipelines, wind farms, communication towers, mines — will have the least impact and direct development there.
[Your comments will go here]
Sincerely,
[Your name]
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