Endnotes 



Rock Creek Management Area. About a third— 95,875 of a total 269,638 roadless acres— are managed 

 "to preserve the roadless resource," though only the 60,839 acres of the Quigg Peak Roadless Area are 

 recommended for wilderness. 



45. The 50,000 acres of the Sapphire Roadless Area included in the Wilderness Study Act amounts to 52 

 percent of the 95,876 acres designated for roadless management by the Forest Service. The area is adja- 

 cent to the Anaconda Pintlar Wilderness. 



46. The Lolo and Deerlodge Forest Plans divide management emphases on their Rock Creek lands as follows: 

 27 percent for timber and range, 10 percent for wildlife, 3 percent for riparian, 21 percent for roadless, 

 10 percent for miscellaneous (which includes administrative and recreation sites) and 28 percent for 

 wilderness. 



47. William R. "Bud" Moore, "Public Treasures in the Welcome Creek Drainage," Sapphire Mountains, Mon- 

 tana, April, 1975. 



48. Bud Moore, telephone interview, October, 1990. 



49. Bill Cunningham, personal interview, December, 1990. 



50. The Absaroka-Beartooth and the Great Bear Wildernesses also were designated under the Endangered 

 American Wilderness Act of 1978. 



51. Orville Daniels, memo, June 8, 1976. 



52. Letter from Jack Large and George Smith to Steve Yurich, September 21, 1972. 



53. Gary Eudaily, personal interview. 



54. U.S. Forest Service Multiple Use Plan, Lower Rock Creek Planning Unit, Background Information Packet 

 and Management Alternatives, April, 1977. 



55. Instead of dividing each forest into smaller planning units as NEPA had done, the new law required 

 comprehensive forest management plans. 



56. Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, Issue Paper, October 25, 1984, op. cit. 



57. Letter from Regional Forester Tom Coston to Deerlodge and Lolo Forest Supervisors, March 8, 1983- 



58. Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, Issue Paper, October 25, 1984, op. cit. 

 59. Ibid. 



60. Ibid. See notes on meeting of April 28, 1982. See also Draft Lolo Forest Plan, U.S. Forest Service, June 

 30, 1982. 



61. Ibid. 



62. Ibid. State Officials said they also suspected that because logging quotas were not reduced for either 

 the Lolo or the Deerlodge during the Rock Creek moratorium, areas outside the drainage were too 

 heavily cut. 



