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10. Management practices and experience. 



A. Habitat management. 



1. Review of past management and land use 

 experiences: There has been little management 

 activity in alpine terrain apart from 

 construction of lookout towers. 



2. Performance under changed conditions: No data 

 available. It occupies a burn site above Swift 

 Reservior. 



3. Current management policies and actions: Fire 

 lookout towers have been taken out of operation 

 near at least two populations, at Mount Wright 

 and Steamboat Mountain. Repeater station 

 installations have recently been proposed at 

 both sites, but are not being pursued at this 

 time (Phillips pers. commun.). Military 

 mountaintop heliccopter landings are being 

 proposed within ten miles of the latter on 

 Helena National Forest, but are not being 

 considered on the Lewis and Clark National 

 Forest. There was not indication that the 

 proximity of hiking and pack trails near the 

 populations poses potential threats. Oil 

 drilling work has taken place within a mile of 

 the Volcano Reef site below the montane zone. 



4. Future land use: Unknown 



B. Cultivation. 



1. Controlled propagation techniques: Unknown. 



2. Ease of transplanting: Eriqeron ochroleucus is 

 a species of similar stature and size t hat has 

 been transplanted for rock gardening (Barr 

 1983) though it is not in horticultural trade. 

 The tendency of E. lackschewitzii to keep a 

 "closed" appearance may make it less desirable 

 than other species of the genus for 

 cultivation. 



3. Pertinent horticultural knowledge: Unknown 



4. Status and location of presently cultivated 

 material. 



a. Specimen plants: N/A 



