<<Back to Planning ACEC STATUS REPORTCurrent as of 011/20/2006 State
| Office Code | ACEC Name
| Designation Date | Size (Acres) | Reason for Designation
| RMP
| MT | Butte | Sleeping Giant | 07/31/84 | 11,609 | Recreation, Scenic, Fish & Wildlife | Headwaters | MT | Missoula | Rattler Gulch Limestone Cliffs | 01/10/86 | 20 | Geological | Garnet | MT | Great Falls | Kevin Rim | 09/20/88 | 4,657 | Fish & Wildlife, Cultural Resources, Recreation | West HiLine | MT | Lewistown | Cow Creek | 09/20/88 | 14,000 | Riparian, Natural Hazard, Geological, Scenic, Natural System | West HiLine | MT | Great Falls | Sweetgrass Hills | 01/29/92 | 7,952 | Cultural, T&E, Wildlife, Recreation | West HiLine | MT | Missoula | Squaw Rock | 02/02/94 | 640 | Fish, Wildlife, Recreation,Scenic | Garnet | MT | Missoula | Bear Creek Flats | 02/02/94 | 564 | Riparian, Fish, T&E Species, Wildlife, Oldgrowth Pine, Recreation | Garnet | MT | Lewistown | Judith Mountains Scenic Area | 09/19/94 | 3,702 | Scenic, Wildlife, Recreation | JVP | MT | Lewistown | Acid Shale-Pine Forest | 09/19/94 | 2,463 | Endemic Plant Community | JVP | MT | Lewistown | Square Butte ONA | 09/19/94 | 1,947 | Natural Endemic Systems, Cultural, Scenic, Geologic | JVP | MT | Lewistown | Collar Gulch | 09/19/94 | 1,618 | Westslope Cutthroat Trout | JVP | MT | Malta | Azure Cave | 09/19/94 | 140 | Cave Resources, Bats | JVP | MT | Malta | Big Bend of the Milk River | 09/19/94 | 2,120 | Archaeological Resources | JVP | MT | Malta | Prairie Dog Towns | 09/19/94 | 12,346 | Habitat For Black-Footed Ferret Reintroduction | JVP | MT | Miles City | Big Sheep Mountain | 04/22/96 | 360 | Cultural | Big Dry | MT | Miles City | Hoe | 04/22/96 | 144 | Cultural | Big Dry | MT | Miles City | Jordan Bison Kill | 04/22/96 | 160 | Cultural | Big Dry | MT | Miles City | Powder River Depot | 04/22/96 | 1,386 | Cultural | Big Dry | MT | Miles City | Seline | 04/22/96 | 80 | Cultural | Big Dry | MT | Miles City | Ash Creek Divide | 04/22/96 | 7,931 | Paleo | Big Dry | MT | Miles City | Bug Creek | 04/22/96 | 3,840 | Paleo | Big Dry | MT | Miles City | Hell Creek | 04/22/96 | 19,169 | Paleo | Big Dry | MT | Miles City | Sand Arroyo | 04/22/96 | 9,056 | Paleo | Big Dry | MT | Miles City | Smoky Butte | 04/22/96 | 80 | Geology,Recreation | Big Dry | MT | Miles City | Black-footed Ferret | 04/22/96 | 11,166 | Wildlife | Big Dry | MT | Miles City | Piping Plover | 04/22/96 | 16 | Wildlife | Big Dry | MT | Billings | Pompeys Pillar | 08/01/96 | 470 | Historic, Cultural, Recreation | Billings | MT | South Dakota | Fort Meade Recreation Area | 09/26/96 | 6,700 | Historic, Cultural | South Dakota | MT | Billings | Bridger Fossil | 03/10/99 | 575 | Paleontology | Billings | MT | Billings | Castle Butte | 03/10/99 | 185 | Cultural | Billings | MT | Billings | East Pryor Mountains | 03/10/99 | 29,500 | Wildlife, Wild Horses, Paleontology | Billings | MT | Billings | Meeteetse Spires | 03/10/99 | 960 | Rare Plant, Hazardous Cliffs, Scenery | Billings | MT | Billings | Petroglyph Canyon | 03/10/99 | 240 | Cultural | Billings | MT | Billings | Stark Site | 03/10/99 | 800 | Cultural | Billings | MT | Billings | Weatherman Draw | 03/10/99 | 4,268 | Cultural | Billings | MT | Miles City | Battle Butte | 03/10/99 | 120 | Cultural | Powder River | MT | Miles City | Finger Buttes | 03/10/99 | 1,520 | Scenery | Powder River | MT | Miles City | Howrey Island | 03/10/99 | 321 | T&E Wildlife | Powder River | MT | Miles City | Reynolds Battlefield | 03/10/99 | 336 | Cultural | Powder River | MT | South Dakota | Fossil Cycad | 03/10/99 | 320 | Paleontology | South Dakota | MT | Billings | Four Dances | 05/03/02 | 765 | Cultural, Scenic Values, Natural Hazards, Peregrine Falcon Habitat | Billings | MT | Malta | Bitter Creek | 0808/03 | 59,600 | Vegetation, Landscape, Prairie Grassland | JVP | MT | Malta | Mountain Plover | 08/08/03 | 24,730 | Wildlife, Vegetation, Soils | JVP | MT | Dillon | Beaverhead Rock | 2/7/06 | 120 | Historic petroglyphs mentioned in the journals of Lewis and Clark | Dillon | MT | Dillon | Block Mountain | 2/7/06 | 8,661 | Exceptional fold and thrust belt structures for teaching geological field mapping | Dillon | MT | Dillon | Blue Lake | 2/7/06 | 430 | Axoloti is a neotenic form of tiger salamander that retains gills and an aquatic liefstyle from living in a cold environment with no fish | Dillon | MT | Dillon | Centennial Mountains | 2/7/06 | 40,715 | Habitat for grizzly bear, lynx, and wolf; use as a wildlife migration area; outstanding scenic value; and only occurrence in Montana of Whipple's beardtongue | Dillon | MT | Dillon | Centennial Sandhills | 2/7/06 | 1,040 | Contains one of only two sand dunes in Montana and habitat for special status plant species | Dillon | MT | Dillon | Everson Creek | 2/7/06 | 8,608 | One of the oldest archaeological sites in Montana--cultural chert quarry and workshop sites | Dillon | MT | Dillon | Muddy Creek/Big Sheep Creek | 2/7/06 | 13, 097 | Scenic and cultural resource values including pictograph and rock sites | Dillon | MT | Dillon | Virginia City Historic District | 2/7/06 | 513 | Historic properties for mining and settlement of Virginia City | Dillon |
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508041101im_/http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/libs/CFC/content/statics.0.gif) |
|
|