Montana's Crazy Mountains, forming the northern jagged tier of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, are the picture of wildness. Inexplicably, the Custer-Gallatin National Forest has recommended that not a single acre of of the range be designated as federal wilderness. The Forest Service has not offered a sound reason for its decision here, nor the logic behind its less than robust recommendation for wilderness in the Gallatin Range nor why it claims that lands inside wilderness study areas in Montana and Wyoming no longer quality as wilderness. The agency, critics say, has a lot of explaining to do. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons
Montana's Crazy Mountains, forming the northern jagged tier of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, are the picture of wildness. Inexplicably, the Custer-Gallatin National Forest has recommended that not a single acre of of the range be designated as federal wilderness. The Forest Service has not offered a sound reason for its decision here, nor the logic behind its less than robust recommendation for wilderness in the Gallatin Range nor why it claims that lands inside wilderness study areas in Montana and Wyoming no longer quality as wilderness. The agency, critics say, has a lot of explaining to do. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons