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Living under the Big Sky of Montana

  Northwest Montana is known for its lakes and rivers, featuring two-thirds of all the recreational waters and one third of all registered boats in the state. Over 500 lakes support fish, ranging from 125,000-acre Flathead Lake, the largest lake west of the Great Lakes, to hundreds of high mountain lakes. More than 3,000 miles of fishable stream flow through the Region. Sensitive native fish species, including the Westslope Cutthroat trout, Bull trout, and Red-band Rainbow trout, reside in the waters.

 Important wildlife species include grizzly and black bear bears, mountain lion, white-tailed deer, three species of mountain grouse, and furbearers such as marten and wolverine. The Northwest region provides about half of the black bear and mountain lion harvest in the state. The white-tailed deer is the most popular big game animal pursued by hunters.

  Varied land ownerships and agency responsibilities make for challenging natural resource management in the Region, which is bound by the Flathead Indian Reservation to the south, and Glacier National Park to the north. Millions of acres of national forest wilderness and hundreds of thousands of acres of corporate timberlands are found in Northwest Montana.

 All of us here as well as FWP, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and various local, state, and federal agencies work together to manage habitat and wildlife.
The state and tribes have unique agreements to co-manage fisheries in Flathead Lake, and fishing and hunting on the Flathead Indian Reservation.

Montana is a land of superlatives and is known for massive mountains, expansive rolling prairies, and epic tales of raw courage and adventure. Historic themes underlie the state's many and varied recreational pursuits including horse packing, wagon trains, trail rides, rodeos, and Native American Powwows.

Montana also offers first class golf courses, downhill skiing, whitewater rafting, big game hunting and trout fishing. Accommodations cover the gamut from quaint bed and breakfast lodgings and country inns to working, guest and dude ranches as well as luxurious resort properties.

Mission Mountains pierces the sky at almost 7000 feet above the valley floor. The apex of the range is a glacier-studded 9820-foot McDonald Peak in the rugged south, where a dozen other summits rise above 9000 feet. Permanent snow fields feed hundreds of gem-like tarns (glacier formed lakes) in one of the highest densities of alpine lakes in the Northern Rockies. Waterfalls are abundant, with the best known being the 1000-foot plunges of Elizabeth and Mission Falls. Click for Montana…

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