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Appendix 1: Montana WHIP Focus Area Map

Wildlife habitat priorities are focused somewhat differently in the following three geographic areas of Montana:

  • Intermountain
  • Prairie Pothole
  • Northern Great Plains

Skip to list of counties in each focus area.

Map showing boundaries of Montana WHIP focus areas.

Intermountain WHIP Focus Area

Beaverhead
Broadwater
Deer Lodge
Flathead
Gallatin
Granite
Jefferson
Lake
Lewis and Clark (southern portion)
Lincoln
Madison
Meagher
Mineral
Missoula
Park
Powell
Ravalli
Sanders
Silver Bow
Prairie Pothole WHIP Focus Area

Blaine
Cascade (northwestern portion)
Chouteau (northern portion)
Daniels
Glacier
Hill
Lewis and Clark (northern portion)
Liberty
Phillips
Pondera
Roosevelt
Sheridan
Teton
Toole
Northern Great Plains WHIP Focus Area

Big Horn
Carbon
Carter
Cascade (southeastern portion)
Chouteau
Custer
Dawson
Fallon
Fergus
Garfield
Golden Valley
Judith Basin
McCone
Musselshell
Petroleum
Powder River
Prairie
Richland
Rosebud
Stillwater
Sweet Grass
Treasure
Wheatland
Wibaux

Habitat Priorities

Intermountain WHIP Focus Area
  1. Riparian/Instream Fisheries
  2. Wetlands
  3. Native Prairie
Prairie Pothole WHIP Focus Area
  1. Wetlands
  2. Native Prairie
  3. Instream/Riparian/Woody Draws
Northern Great Plains WHIP Focus Area
  1. Native Prairie
  2. Instream/Riparian/Woody Draws
  3. Wetlands

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