GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — An official with the Bureau of Land Management says a timber salvage logging contract will be awarded in the next few months to clear downed trees on 570 acres of BLM land and 267 acres of state land.
Craig Flentie says the work will begin this spring and continue for about three years in the Limekiln Canyon northeast of Lewistown. He says federal stimulus money is paying for the work.
A $165,000 contract has already been awarded to Johnson Services of Garden City, Idaho, to build a 4.5-mile road into the canyon.
A storm caused a massive timber blow-down in the canyon in 2008.
Rod Sanders is an outdoor recreation planner in Lewistown with the BLM. He says wind shear cut down several hundred acres of Douglas fir and ponderosa pine trees.
