EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 



Sensitive plant survey work was conducted in Garfield and McCone 

 counties of Montana, on lands administered by the Bureau of Land 

 Management. This report summarizes the findings of the field 

 inventory and concurrent compilation of written information. It 

 represents a sensitive species program baseline and preliminary 

 floristic inventory in an area of the state v;hich has not been well 

 studied. The BLM lands do not represent the entire array of landscape 

 in the two-county area, though they were the focus of this study. 

 Information compiled in the course of this study represents an initial 

 approximation of the two-county sensitive species diversity and flora 

 as a whole. 



Ten plant species of special concern are known from Garfield and 

 McCone counties; two were discovered in the course of this project. 

 Neither of the two are recommended for BLM designation as sensitive 

 because it was determined in the fieldwork that they are not rare, nor 

 under existing or foreseeable threats associated with rarity. Status 

 recommendations and the likelihood of finding the other eight species 

 on BLM lands are discussed in the report. 



