The BLM lands include 708 miles of roads on the land acquired from The Nature Conservancy. A management plan for road access for the many interested parties is being developed.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been acquiring land in the Blackfoot Valley from the Nature Conservancy (TNC) since the early 1990s, when it owned 40 acres in the Blackfoot Valley. Today it manages nearly 44,000 acres, with more to come.
Currently, the BLM is developing a Travel Management Plan (TMP) for managing access on the bureau's land in the Blackfoot watershed in order to develop a recreational use plan, manage the forest resources and restore Reserved Tribal Treaty Rights on federal land.
The TMP will determine public access and transportation system opportunities that allow fo...
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