(Kalispell) Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is seeking public input on a potential project that would place nearly 53,000 acres of private timberland in northwest Montana under a conservation easement and protect working lands, public recreation access, and wildlife habitat.
FWP has published a draft environmental assessment that outlines the proposed second phase of the project named the Montana Great Outdoors Conservation Easement.
The new easement would encompass forest lands in the Cabinet Mountains between Kalispell and Libby.
FWP says the private property provides abundant public hunting and angling opportunities that would be permanently secured under this proposal.
