State, U.S. Forest Service use new agreement to target 400,000 acres of forest for management

By: Jordan Hansen

Outlets: Daily Montanan

Published: March 9, 2026

Words: 733

Last Updated: 12 hours, 38 minutes ago

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Montana and the U.S. Forest Service announced last week they were moving ahead on a shared agreement between the two to do forestry work in large swathes of the state.

Last summer, the state and Forest Service signed an agreement formalizing closer cooperation between federal forest management operations and the state Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. That came about two months after a Trump Administration executive order seeking to increase domestic timber …

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