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Outdoor Act funds maintenance projects on Lolo, Bitterroot forests Kyle Hansen/MTN Sports and last updated 2021-03-16 10:29:55-04 MISSOULA — More than 50 maintenance projects on Montana’s national forests have been selected to receive funding through the Great American Outdoors Act, including six on the Bitterroot National Forest and a dozen on the Lolo National Forest. Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a list of more than 500 infrastructure projects selected nationwide to receive money from the Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund. The restoration fund is part o...

BRETT FRENCH From modernizing the Missoula Smokejumper Visitor Center to resurfacing the Delmoe Lake Road outside Butte, a portion of $285 million from the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund could be coming to Montana this year. The amount of the funding for Region 1 forests in Montana is uncertain, according to Dan Hottle, Northern Region press officer. “We still don’t know when or how much will be released,” he said. However, the Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Region announced in a press release that its forests would be receiving $31.5 m...