Rocky Mountain Front

Rocky Mountain Front and the Badger-Two Medicine area of the Lewis and Clark National Forest

The 100-mile long Rocky Mountain Front is one of North America's largest and most intact ecosystems where the short-grass prairie of the Great Plains meets the eastern face of Northern Rockies. Although a few leases are about to be retired, some 50 other oil and gas leases still linger from earlier times covering 80,000 acres of Badger-Two Medicine, a portion of the Lewis and Clark National Forest held sacred by the Blackfeet Tribe and some leaseholders are determined to drill for short term gain. Over the last few decades, energy interests have acquired leases on thousands of acres of federal lands along the Front. Drilling in this pristine wildland would introduce roads and industrial activity, fragmenting and altering the ecological and wildlife values of this increasingly rare large-scale ecosystem. To support further protection of this critical wilderness region, visit http://www.s-o-solutions.org or http://www.wilderness.org