Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan Available for Public Review
Photo: Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Credit: Dave Hanna, The Nature Conservancy
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is pleased to provide the Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP) for the Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge Complex. On completion, this Comprehensive Conservation Plan will set out the management and use of Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge Complex for 15 years. The refuge complex spans 12 counties and both sides of the Continental Divide in Montana.
The main purpose for the refuge complex is to provide habitat for migratory birds, as set out in the Migratory Bird Conservation Act.
How do I get involved?
The Service welcomes your questions and comments! Whether you are an interested individual or a group representative, please review and comment on our draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan.
Comments should be sent to:
Toni Griffin,
PO Box 25486 DFC,
Lakewood, CO, 80228,
Or you may send comments by electronic mail to bentonlake@fws.gov with a subject line, “Draft CCP Comments.” Please include your name and home or e-mail address in the message. Our practice is to make comments, including names and home addresses of respondents, available for public review during regular business hours. Individual respondents may request that we withhold their home addresses from the record, which we will honor to the extent allowed by law.
Your comments are needed by June1, 2012, in order to be considered in the development of the final Comprehensive Conservation Plan.
The Plan is available for viewing at
http://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/planning/ccp/mt/bnl/bnl.html
For more information, contact:
Kathy Burchett, Project Leader
Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge
922 Bootlegger Trail
Great Falls, Montana 59404
bentonlake@fws.gov
406/727 7400
Toni Griffin, Planning Team Leader
Division of Refuge Planning
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
PO Box 25486, DFC
Denver, CO 80225
(303) 236-4378
Toni_Griffin@fws.gov
