Blackfoot Community Conservation Area (Mont.)

found: Work cat.: Duvall, A.L. Towards community-owned forests : landowner perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area, 2006:abstr. ("The Blackfoot Community Project is a partnership ... to purchase and re-sell up to 88,092 acres of mid-elevation Plum Creek Timber Company lands to private and public interests as an alternative to subdivision and fragmentation of the landscape ... the partnership has proposed to set aside 5,600 acres of these former timberlands to create the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area (BCCA), an innovative institutional arrangement involving community-ownership.")

found: The Blackfoot Community Conservation Area : frequently asked questions, via WWW, July 3, 2007(The BCCA is an approximate 41,000-acre block of land located around OvandoMountain. Landowners within the BCCA include the U.S. Forest Service, the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks, and a number of private individuals and entities. The Nature Conservancy (TNC) currently owns 9,630 acres that they purchased from Plum Creek Timber Company as part of the Blackfoot Community Project. TNC will sell 1,312 acres to the Forest Service in February 2006 and plans to transfer an additional 2,707 acres to the DNRC as soon as the agency can arrange for a land exchange to acquire the property. TNC will deed the remaining 5,600-acre block (an area we have been calling the "Core") to the Blackfoot Challenge on behalf of the community.)

found: Charting the course for the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area and proposed cooperative landscape stewardship pilot project, via WWW, July 3, 2007(the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area, or BCCA, a project that is linking natural resource management with local cultural heritage and economy; located just north of Ovando and at the southern end of the Bob Marshall and Scapegoat Wilderness Areas, involves a 41,000-acre landscape that will be cooperatively managed across public and private ownership lines. The area consists of land owned by the Lolo National Forest, Department of Natural Resources & Conservation, MT Fish Wildlife & Parks, private individuals, and a 5,600-acre parcel of former Plum Creek Timber Company lands that is currently owned by The Nature Conservancy (known as "the Core"; the 5,600-acre Core ... will be transferred from The Nature Conservancy to the Blackfoot Challenge for community-based ownership and management in 2008))