BLM offers new grazing area in Elk Horn Mountains

The Bureau of Land Management is offering a unique forage allotment program for qualifying ranchers near the Elk Horn Mountains. Ranchers holding a grazing allotment in the Elk Horn Mountains can move their cattle into an alternate grazing area. This will allow BLM to treat public land ranchers normally use for grazing in the Elk Horn Mountains, Scott Haight, Butte field manager for Bureau of Land Management, said. With the vegetation treatment, the health of the range will improve, said David Abrams, public affairs specialist for the BLM Western Montana District. This new program is part of the Bureau of Land Management's environmental assessment for the Iron Mask area...more