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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 404
113TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session SENATE 113-177
ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT HERITAGE ACT
JUNE 2, 2014.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. LANDRIEU, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 364]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 364) to establish the Rocky Mountain Front
Conservation Management Area, to designate certain Federal land
as wilderness, and to improve the management of noxious weeds
in the Lewis and Clark National Forest, and for other purposes,
having considered the same, reports favorably thereon without
amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purposes of S. 364 are to establish the 208,790-acre Rocky
Mountain Front Conservation Management Area in the State of
Montana, to designate approximately 67,112 acres of national for-
est land in the State as additions to existing wilderness areas, and
to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to prepare a comprehensive
management strategy for preventing, controlling, and eradicating
noxious weeds in the Lewis and Clark National Forest.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
Montana's Rocky Mountain Front is located where the Rocky
Mountains meet the plains in the larger Crown of the Continent
region of northwestern Montana. Its scenery, recreation opportuni-
ties, and habitat are renowned. For example, according to a 2011
environmental assessment prepared by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, conservation biologists rank the Rocky Mountain Front in
the top one-percent of wildlife habitat remaining in the United
States, with a complete assemblage of native wildlife species (with
the exception of free-ranging bison), including large carnivores, in-
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