Community Conservation at Work...

In this climate of legal uncertainty, the Big Hole Grayling CCAA provides the opportunity to work cooperatively with local landowners to implement conservation measures that represent significant improvements to grayling habitat conditions (including streamflows). In return for conservation measures, non-federal landowners would recieve legal assurances that no further actions would be required of them, beyond what they agree to do in a site-specific conservation plan should grayling become listed as either Threatened or Endangered. Because landowner input is a vital part of the development process, the resulting conservation plans will lead to significant benefits to the local grayling population as well as respecting the important contributions that the local landowners have made to the cultural, economic, and natural resources of southwest Montana. Interest in this approach to conservation is extremely high with 31 landowners (owning approx. 157,189 acres of land!) showing a willingness to begin developing conservation plans designed to help preserve Big Hole grayling. The CCAA for grayling is available in the reports section.

Conservation efforts of the CCAA are focused on four major objectives:

Eligible landowners must enroll 90 days prior to a proposed listing date. For more information please contact:

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks
Attn: CCAA Program Manager
730 N. Montana St.
Dillon, MT 59725
(406) 683-2287

If you are interested in contributing to the CCAA efforts, please contribute.

Partnerships...

The Big Hole Grayling CCAA was developed collaboratively by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. Important CCAA related projects have been funded in association with private landowners, the Big Hole River Foundation, the Big Hole Watershed Committee, Trout Unlimited, the State of Montana Future Fisheries Program, and public grant opportunites. For more information, check out these links:

Website designed by Bartosz Brzezinski
Content is © of Arctic Grayling Recovery Program 2006
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