the 61,000-acre Blue Joint Wilderness Study Area in the Bitterroot Mountains along the Idaho border; the 94,000-acre Sapphire Wilderness Study Area just below the peaks of the Anaconda-Pintler ...

Steve Daines that would release the Sapphire Wilderness Study Area and four other WSAs in Montana from consideration for wilderness designation. The unanimous vote by the three commissioners to ...

Sapphire Wilderness Study Area, Middle Fork Judith Wilderness Study Area, Big Snowies Wilderness Study Area and the Blue Joint Wilderness Study Area as “improperly managed public lands.” ...

Kent Peak in the Sapphire Wilderness Study Area, where the wildlife community is more intact than 95 percent of national parks. Credit: Sally Carlson/Montana Wilderness Association The Montana ...

New maps show growth of 448 acres on the Bowles Creek Fire burning 27 miles southwest of Philipsburg and three miles southwest of Skalkaho Pass in the Sapphire Wilderness Study Area (WSA ...

"You can't bring a claim that an agency has failed to maintain the wilderness characteristics of an area ... in the West Pioneers and Sapphire wilderness study areas. "We found some situations ...

The first elk bugle I ever heard was in the Sapphire Wilderness Study Area. When that bull cut through the silence of the crisp, early September morning, it left my hunting partner and I wide-eyed ...

Sapphire Wilderness Study Area, Middle Fork Judith Wilderness Study Area, Big Snowies Wilderness Study Area and the Blue Joint Wilderness Study Area.

More: Wilderness Study Area resolution passes second reading ... hearing from 20 residents who objected to the repeal of the Sapphire WSA. Members of Daines’ staff had requested an appointment ...

They are the West Pioneer Wilderness Study Areas, Sapphire Wilderness Study Area, Middle Fork Judith Wilderness Study Area, Big Snowies Wilderness Study Area and the Blue Joint Wilderness Study Area.

Daines describes the West Pioneer Wilderness Study Areas, Sapphire Wilderness Study Area, Middle Fork Judith Wilderness Study Area, Big Snowies Wilderness Study Area and the Blue Joint Wilderness ...