ACEC

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

ACEC STATUS REPORT

Current as of 011/20/2006