Welcome to the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest!
Draft Forest Management Plan and Draft EIS Available for Public Review and Comment
COMMENT PERIOD EXTENDED! The new deadline for public comments is October 9, 2018. We encourage you to review the draft revised land and resource management plan and draft environmental impact statement for the Forest. The drafts reflect years of analyses and extensive public participation, and we want to keep that public involvement going! Review the documents on our Forest Plan Revision webpage and then submit your comments to us within the comment period. All of the details on how to submit comments are on that webpage. We have hard-copies of these draft documents located at each of our Forest offices, as well.
Bob Marshall Wilderness Interactive Trail Conditions Map
Taking a trip to the backcountry and wondering what the trail conditions are right now? Well, wonder no longer! Thanks to the coordination by the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation, trail conditions reports and updates is just a click away! View the interactive map with real-time updates!
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After providing your email address, you can subscribe to the Forest’s project mailing lists and any categories of interest. By selecting a category, the Forest will automatically sign you up for all current AND future project mailing lists that share the same interest.
Beginning August 15, 2018, the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest will be soliciting applications from interested parties to provide outfitter and guide services on the Rocky Mountain Ranger District. The district intends to authorize additional service days for existing permits and/or authorize new special use permits that will allow individuals or organizations to conduct commercial outfitter-guide services to the general public on a recurring basis within the specifically-described National Forest System lands on the RMRD.
It is important for any prospective buyer to understand what an unpatented mining claim is, and what the rights of an owner of an unpatented mining claim are.
The Helena National Forest and Montana Discovery Foundation want to team up with YOU to help report sightings of some special wildlife and plant species while you're in the woods!
