Forest revamps anti-fire project
A fuel reduction project northeast of Ashland that was pulled last year after a threatened lawsuit has been repackaged with another one for public review, but it still doesn’t answer the environmental group’s concerns.
The Beaver Creek landscape management project could treat about 14,000 acres on public lands in southeastern Montana. The area is popular with deer, elk and turkey hunters because it’s such a large tract of public land in a sea of private property in southeastern Montana. The Custer National Forest’s Whitetail rental cabin and Holiday Springs Campground also lie within the project’s boundaries, 17 miles east of Ashland and north of Highway 212.
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