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As hunters of average means lose access to private lands across Montana, it's comforting knowing we have millions of acres of public land that will be available to us and our descendants for as far as we can see into the future. These great undeveloped spaces, many of them managed by the Bureau of Land Management, hold some of the best open grassland, game bird and big game habitats in the world. For most of us Montana hunters, even those who have not yet visited these big landscapes, this is truly the last, best place. Now is the time to act if we want to keep it that way.

The BLM Hi-Line District is developing a management plan that will determine what happens to some of the very best intact and undeveloped lands. We're talking about 2.4 million acres of public accessible land stretching from the Missouri River Breaks to the Canadian border. This is a hunter's dream country — from jackpine coulees ringing with bugling bulls to the backcountry sagebrush of the Marsh Hawk Hills and the Gumbo Plateau, or the incredibly isolated mule deer and pronghorn hideouts around Bitter Creek and Frenchman's Coulee.