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4. Privately owned (partial or full) sites: 



Biddle (001) 



Decker (003) 



Colstrip (004) 



Miller Coulee (005) 



Bobcat Creek (008) , partial 



Gate Creek (018) , partial 



O'Dell Creek Buttress (019) 



Scoles Ranch Road (021) 



South Fork Wright Creek 1 (022) 



Ranch Creek 1 (024) , partial 



South Biddle (025) 



Colstrip Southeast (027) 



Spring Creek (028) 



C. Management responsibility: Same as ownership given 

 above. 



D. Easements, conservation restrictions, etc.: 



Astragalus barrii is on the U.S. Forest Service 

 Region 1 (Northern Region) Sensitive Plant List. 

 Plants on this list are protected on U.S.F.S. lands 

 as discussed in I.2.B.l.a. (p. 2). 



10. Management practices and experience. 



A. Habitat management. 



1. Review of past management and land use 

 experiences. 



a. This taxon: There are currently no 

 management plan^ in effect for this 

 species. 



b. Related taxa: Unknown. 



c. Other ecologically similar taxa: Unknown. 



2. Performance under changed conditions: Drought 

 conditions in southeast Montana have caused 

 loss of individual plants. It is likely that a 

 change toward a warmer dryer climate would have 

 a negative affect on this species. 



3. Current management policies and actions: A 



report on A. barrii for the Custer National 

 Forest was prepared by the Montana Natural 

 Heritage Program in 1988 (Schassberger 1988) . 

 This report contained locational data for all 

 populations on the Custer National Forest; 



