(HELENA) – Governor Greg Gianforte, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) announced this week the addition of a third Shared Stewardship landscape to the state’s forest management agreement with the Forest Service, bringing the total number of acres to nearly one million.
In June 2025, Gov. Gianforte and Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz formalized a first-of-its-kind, 20-year Shared Stewardship Agreement between the State of Montana and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service to dramatically increase the pace and scale of forest management.
This week’s announcement is for a third landscape of approximately 345,000 acres in the Lolo National Forest, bringing the management total to over 745,000 acres.
