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History and Background
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Lionhead/Henry's Mountians 

The Gallatin Range

Hyalite-Porcupine-Buffalo Horn WSA

The Lionhead area straddles the Continental Divide along the Montana/Idaho border outside of West Yellowstone.  These majestic mountains touch the sky with the prominent peaks reaching over 10,000 feet. Trails that lay across this landscape are like no others in our region, they are difficult, they are remote and above all they make an impression that lasts a lifetime.

 

Every summer, over 50 miles of trails are cleared and maintained by mountain bikers with assistance from equestrians carrying chain saws to 10,000 feet on the flank of Targhee Peak.  This very same group of MTBers also performs critical and necessary trail clearing and maintenance along 200 miles of the Continental Divide Trail ( CDT ) and associated access trails.

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The Gallatin Range has been a source of contention for many years. Legislation, land swaps, advancing science, travel planning, growing population and lawsuits have led to our current state. The Gallatin Range contains the Hyalite Porcupine Buffalo Horn WSA (HPBHWSA, how's that for an acronym!). It is the source of most of Bozeman's drinking water, part of the intact Greater  Yellowstone Ecosystem and a priceless recreation resource.

SWMMBA helped forge the Gallatin Forest Partnership agreement and supports its recommendations for this region. This agreement provides broadly supported suggestions for this forest plan and would continue through the legislative process to finally resolve this issue.

https://gallatinpartners.org/

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