The Hub Conservation Area - Montanans 4 Safe Wildlife Passage

this linkage along Highway 200 near Lincoln andHighway 141; elk are killed more frequently.Forest roads are a problem for grizzly and othermore “secretive” wildlife, encouraging humanpresence in normally wild landscape.Illegal trapping of lynx has been the greatestsource of lynx mortality in this linkage area.In the Scapegoat area, biologists state thatinterspecific competition between lynx andmountain lion is a moderately high threat toexisting lynx populations.There are active gold mining activities in thislinkage, with more develop proposals betweenLincoln and Roger’s Pass. This area used to havesilver and gold mines that leached cyanide intothe Blackfoot River, causing great ecologicaldamage.Conservation OpportunitiesThe Blackfoot Challenge is a cooperativeconservation effort that has over 8,000acres of conservation easements in theworks. The Blackfoot Challenge is alreadyworking collaboratively between agencies,timber companies, and private landowners.From Bonner to Rogers Pass there is muchconservation on-going with the BlackfootChallenge but there is an opportunity still tokeep working with the USFS on the Forest Plan.78