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E. Other factors of population ecology: None known. 

 ?. Current land ownership and management responsibility. 



A. General nature of ownership: United States Government and 

 private. 



B. Specific landowners (Montana): 



1. USDA Forest Service 



Custer National Forest 

 P.O. Box 2556 

 Billings, MT 59103 



E. USDI Bureau of Land Management 



Billings Resource Area Headquarters 

 P.O. Box 2020 

 Billings, MT 59101 



3. USDI National Park Service 



Big Horn Canyon National Recreation Area 



P.O. Box ^58 



Fort Smith, MT 59035 



^. To we Farms Inc. 



191 N. Frontage Rd. 

 Deer Lodge, MT 59722 



5. Aetna Life & Casualty 



Aetna Realty Investors, Inc. 

 YF 93, City Place 

 Hartford, CT 06156 



C. Management responsibility: Same as ownership given above, except 

 for Towe Farms land, which is managed by Waynard and Wylie 

 Anderson, Belfry, MT. 



D. Easements, conservation restrictions, etc.: A portion of the 

 Lost Water Canyon site in the Pryor Mountains is in a parcel 

 proposed for designation as a research natural area by the U.S. 

 Forest Service. The Mystery Cave site is on the Pryor Mountain 

 Wild Horse Range, and one of the subpopulations is in Big Horn 

 Canyon National Recreation Area. 



A private holding on the Grove Creek Pinnacles site in the 

 Beartooth Mountains is owned by Aetna Life & Casualty (TSS, R20E, 

 Section 23, NW/^NW^o S'^NW^, SW/<, 5W/4SE'/4). Negotiations for 

 potential transfer of this parcel to the Montana/Wyoming Field 

 Office of The Nature Conservancy are in progress (J. Bird, The 

 Nature Conservancy, pers. comm.). 



10. Management practices and experience. 



A. Habitat management. 



