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Sponsors
Project Description
The Winston property comprises over 200 acres of private in-holdings deep within the Elkhorn Wildlife Management Unit of the Helena National Forest. The land features sprawling grasslands, meadows, rolling hills with pockets of partially timbered, fire-damaged land. Roadless, undeveloped, secluded areas are often hard to come by, even in Montana. These lands are a safe-haven to local wildlife for grazing and breeding and provide security to a variety of species.
Purpose
Phase I: Preserve winter range for wild elk grazing
Phase II: Purchase of approximately 150 additional in-holding acres of land and continued conservation of elk winter range.
Phase III: Purchase of approximately 100 additional in-holding acres of land and continued conservation of elk winter range.
Private in-holdings in the Elkhorn Mountains threatened the winter grazing range that wild elk. With help from the Montana Fish & Wildlife Conservation Trust, under the guidance of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and the Helena National Forest Service, the Winston in-holdings conserve important elk winter range and prevent future development while maintaining limited public access to adjacent public lands.
Directions
Between Helena, Montana and Townsend, Montana on the west side of MT 287 within the Elkhorn Wildlife Management Unit of the Helena National Forest.
Restrictions
No Motorized Vehicles.
