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	NOW with Bill Moyers. Science & Health. Photo Essay: The Rocky Mountain Front \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Rocky Mountain Front — the "Front" — is a majestic span of rocky crags and fjord-like valleys that edge the Great Plains with startling contrast, its heights abruptly giving way to foothills that flow down into the eastward sprawling expanse of prairie.
		The Rocky Mountain Front includes a 400 square mile strip of national forest land, the Lewis and Clark National Forest.
		The Front's "remarkably contiguous transformation of peak to prairie" creates an ecological transition zone, sometimes called an ecotone, that provides a suitable sanctuary for a rare array of wildlife.
	www.pbs.org /now/science/rockymtnphotos.html (439 words)

	Coalition to Protect the Rocky Mountain Front: Homepage
		A mosaic of land-use patterns interlock along Rocky Mountain Front, where working ranches and Native American activities have co-existed with wildlife and high-quality recreation for years.
		FWS has established the Rocky Mountain Front Conservation Area, covering 534,000 acres of foothills and prairie between the Front and the towns of Augusta, Choteau and Dupuyer.
		FWS has identified the Rocky Mountain Front Conservation Area, covering 900,000 acres of foothills and prairie between the Front and the towns of Augusta, Choteau and Dupuyer.
	www.savethefront.org (910 words)

	FAQ for the Rocky Mountain Front (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Rocky Mountain Front and the wilderness areas to the west also contain one of the largest, contiguous populations of mountain goats in Montana.
		The Rocky Mountain Front is excellent wolf habitat because it supports large populations of elk and deer, and because of the large expanse of wilderness behind it.
		As part of the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, the Rocky Mountain Front is one of the finest undesignated wildlands in North America.
	www.meic.org /rockies.html (606 words)

	Rocky Mountain Front Visitors Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Rocky Mountain Front communities are served with 9-1-1 emergency dispatch for fire, ambulance and police or county deputy.
		The Eastern Rocky Mountain Front is grizzly bear country, one of the last places in the lower 48 states where this threatened species lives on a combination of public and private lands.
		The vast, treeless prairie grassland sweeping from the Rocky Mountains eastward into the open land of Montana near what is now known as Fairfield, was settled by a few brave souls who eked out a meager living running sheep and cattle with the benefit of no fences and the availability of free grass.
	www.choteauacantha.com /visitor (2367 words)

	Save the Rocky Mountain Front (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A land of spectacular mountains towering over rolling plains and sparkling rivers, the Rocky Mountain Front is where the short-grass prairies of the plains slam into the mountains in northwestern Montana.
		The intersection of mountain and grassland found in the 100-mile long Front produces habitat so rich that it is often called "America's Serengeti." Indeed, not only does the Front still retain almost all its native species (only bison are missing), but it also harbors the country's largest bighorn sheep herd and second largest elk herd.
		The Rocky Mountain Front supports the largest number of grizzly bears south of Canada and is the only place in the lower 48 states where grizzly bears still roam from the mountains to their historic range on the plains.
	www.savethefront.net /background.html (1093 words)

	Rocky Mountain Front (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The access roads lead well into the mountains, the scenery is rugged and spectacular, and there are an abundance of good hiking trails in the area.
		Egg Mountain is an archeological dig where Dr. Jack Horner of the Museum of the Rockies made important discoveries about the nesting habits of dinosaurs.
		With the majestic mountain front to the west, these lakes cannot exactly be said to lack scenic value, but their immediate vicinity consists of bald prairie and the campsites offer little or no shelter.
	www.cowboyhvn.com /Rocky.htm (1428 words)

	Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Enclosing part of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, it is 262,191 ac (106,109 ha) in area.
		Discovery of the microbe of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in 1906 by H.T. Ricketts led...
		Rocky Mountain College is considered to be the oldest college in the state because Billings Polytechnic dates back to 1878.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article?tocId=9313260 (929 words)

	Rocky Mountain Front Saved!
		Formed by the violent upward thrusting of sedimentary rock millions of years ago, the Rocky Mountain Front is a towering escarpment of eastward-tilting limestone and shale cliffs that abruptly announce the western terminus of the Great Plains.
		Still mostly undeveloped, the Front serves as a threshold to three great wilderness areas to the west including nearly 2 million acres of prime wildlife habitat permanently protected by congressional directive.
		The mammals of that region, including elk, mule deer, mountain goat and grizzly bear, all depend to some extent on the mountainous shoulder and the portal to the plains which are scoured free of snow by thunderous Chinook winds and provide them winter range and spring forage.
	members.aol.com /wildmt/rockyfront.htm (679 words)

	AWR: The Rocky Mountain Front (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Rocky Mountain Front - the "Front" - is a majestic span of rocky crags and fjord-like valleys that edge the Great Plains with startling contrast, its heights abruptly giving way to foothills that flow down into the eastward sprawling expanse of prairie.
		The Front also represents one of the scarce remaining locations where the majestic grizzly still wanders from the mountains onto the plains, its former historical range.
		The Front, as 1.6 million of public roadless wildlands, is host to such a rich diversity of life because it rests on the east edge of one of the country's great surviving wilderness complexes.
	www.wildrockies.org /awr/campaigns/front1.html (497 words)

	In the Northwest: Gas drillers poised along Rocky Mountain Front
		The Rocky Mountain Front is where horizontal grasslands of the plains collide with what writer Ivan Doig called "a steel-blue army of mountains." The eastern face of the Rockies is notable for a line of sharp, barren peaks, long serrated ridges and deep canyons.
		Equally, however, "the Front" represents a major test of whether the petroleum and mining industries have the political clout to drill, dig and build anywhere they want.
		Not along "the Front." Its one part-time celebrity resident is a very private David Letterman, whose big spread up Deep Creek is treated with a taste often absent in "Late Show" monologues.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /connelly/142912_joel08.html (998 words)

	IR // News // Agencies preparing EIS for drilling on the Front (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Front is among the top 1 percent of uncut, raw wild mountains in the United States, she said.
		She has an album of photographs of Canada's Front country to show how natural gas has changed the mountains there: Mountain roads so clogged with company trucks and tractors they are closed to regular traffic at certain times.
		No amount of gas or profits, she said, is worth changing the Front, which has remarkably survived 200 years of urbanization and development, starting with Lewis and Clark, and has remained almost completely unchanged.
	www.helenair.com /articles/2003/07/20/montana_top/a01072003_04.txt (1401 words)

	Rocky Mountain Eastern Front : Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Rocky Mountain Eastern Front (Overview of Rocky Mountain Eastern Front)
		The eastern front of the Rockies is an isolated, sparsely populated section of Montana, but it is no less beautiful than the peaks and valleys to the west.
		When fossilized dinosaur eggs turned up along the Rocky Mountain Eastern Front -- the shoreline of a shallow sea 65 million years ago -- paleontologists learned that the beasts had migrated to this area to lay their eggs.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=2158&catID=2158010001 (244 words)

	DJC.COM: Forest Service bans oil and gas leasing on Rocky Mountain Front, provided by Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
		The so-called Rocky Mountain front includes the eastern edge of the Rockies from Glacier National Park, in northwestern Montana, almost to Helena in the west-central part of the state.
		Public comments received during the 2 years the draft was being composed were overwhelmingly opposed to development along the Front, and a poll for the Great Falls Tribune this month found 52 percent of Montanans opposed.
		The Rocky Mountain front, with its combination of jagged mountains and rolling plains, is a haven for wildlife, including grizzly bears.
	www.djc.com /news/enviro/10030357.html (400 words)

	Boston.com / Business / U.S. nixes Rocky Mountain Front drilling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Front, which stretches about 100 miles along the eastern crags of the Rockies south of Glacier National Park, is home to grizzly bears, elk, bighorn sheep and other wildlife.
		The Bush administration's energy plan identifies the Front in Montana as an important source of natural gas, but critics say it's questionable how much could be extracted economically.
		Drilling has occurred elsewhere in an environmentally safe manner and the same is possible on the Front, he said, adding Montana needs the jobs and tax revenue from petroleum development.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2004/10/02/us_nixes_rocky_mountain_front_drilling (518 words)

	Montana - The Rocky Mountain Front
		The Rocky Mountain Front is a convergence of mountains and plains that stretches in a 50-mile swath over 200 linear miles of Alberta and Montana.
		However, the greater threat to the Front - and to the grizzly bear - is subdivision.
		strategy along the Front is to secure habitats used most heavily by grizzly bears, and to maintain critical linkages between public and private lands that enable bears to continue their seasonal movements.
	nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/montana/preserves/art6027.html (907 words)

	Sustainable Obtainable Solutions: PROJECTS:: Coalition to Protect the Rocky Mountain Front
		From Canada to Mexico, the Montana Rocky Mountain Front is the last unmarred reach of a spectacular landscape, where the soaring ramparts of the mountains meet the Great Plains.
		The Front country, despite a century of conservation history, is still largely open to energy development, particularly deep-well natural gas.
		Her decision to ban oil and gas leasing on the Rocky Mountain Front responded to overwhelming public support and scientific evidence demanding protection of this remarkable landscape from inappropriate development.
	www.s-o-solutions.org /projects/coalition.html (1109 words)

	NFN - Rocky Mountain Front, Montana
		Rappold is a member of the Coalition to Protect the Rocky Mountain Front, an organization of ranchers, hunters, anglers, local business owners, public officials, conservationists, and other Montanans who are working to protect the Front.
		The Front’s long north-south strip of wildlife habitat is so rich that Montana’s Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department consider the Front to be in the top one percent of wildlife habitat in the United States.
		Montanans have a long history of protecting the Front, dating to the 1913 creation of the state’s first game preserve (Sun River) to the 1972 creation of the nation’s first citizen initiated Wilderness Area, the Scapegoat Wilderness.
	www.nativeforest.org /campaigns/rmf/blackleaf_scoping/press_rel_041604.htm (768 words)

	U.S. Backs Off Mont. Gas Drilling (washingtonpost.com)
		With the exception of buffalo, the Front remains prime habitat for all the big game that wowed the Lewis and Clark expedition as it passed through the region two centuries ago.
		Watson acknowledged that the Bush administration had heard complaints about gas drilling in the Front from the "the hook and bullet crowd," a cluster of conservation groups, many of which represent wealthy sportsmen who often vote Republican.
		Drilling on the Front was also immensely unpopular in Montana and across the Rocky Mountain West.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A9497-2004Oct5.html (606 words)

	Montanans to BLM: Protect the Rocky Mountain Front
		The Front is home to the headwaters of the great Missouri and Mississippi Rivers and home to abundant wildlife and majestic beauty.
		Of course, we are opposed to drilling activities on the Front.
		Add to this the numerous newspaper editorials protesting exploitation of the Rocky Mountain Front and one wonders why governmental agencies and Montana Congressional delegates have not received the clear message: we want NO development of the Rocky Mountain Front.
	www.wilderness.org /NewsRoom/Release/20040915.cfm (1508 words)

	NFN - Rocky Mountain Front, Montana
		With the constant onslaught of threats to the Rocky Mountain Front, its people, and wildlife from oil and gas development, increasing motorized recreational use, and unpredictable shifts in the political environment, we are seeking permanent protection of the remaining unproteced areas of public land along the Front.
		Wilderness designation is the only way to save the Front from becoming an industrial drilling site and motorized playpen for both its wildlife and the people who have been living their for generations.
		The Rocky Mountain Front is a place that most Montanans, and Americans, want protected from these ravages.
	www.nativeforest.org /rmf.html (880 words)

	Rocky Mountain Front (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Forest Service announced that its preliminary alternative travel plan maps for the Rocky Mountain Front area (Lewis and Clark National Forest, Montana) are available to the public.
		The Rocky Mountain Front area currently includes OHV trails, snowmobiles routes, and equestrian and hiking trails.
		The anti-access crowd has already announced its intentions to fight all motorized access in the Rocky Mountain Front, so your voice is needed to preserve recreational access.
	www.arra-access.com /arra/RockyMountainFront.html (146 words)

	NFN - Rocky Mountain Front, Montana
		In a 2003 address to the full Senate, he said: The Front’s habitat is just too rich, the landscape too important to subject it to roads, drills, pipelines, chemicals, noise and human activity.
		She continues today to speak out for the Front, stating recently: The Front is so special we should just leave it alone.
		Editorials in several prominent national papers have also included the Front as an example of a place that is too special to drill or that is under unjustified threat because of the current Administration’s policies.
	www.nativeforest.org /campaigns/rmf/rmf_factsheets/support_for_rmf.htm (1125 words)

	USING GIS TO ASSESS CONTROLS ON THE EVOLUTION OF SUB-SUMMIT SURFACES IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT RANGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Rocky Mountain Front Range is characterized by a sub-summit zone of broadly flat- to-rolling topography.
		This zone of low relief, known as the Rocky Mountain surface or Eocene erosion surface, contrasts sharply with the adjacent foothills at the mountain fronts and high peaks at the crest of the range.
		Results from this analysis are important not only for the evolution of the Front Range but also for other Laramide-age ranges within the Rocky Mountains that exhibit similar low relief sub-summit morphology.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2004RM/finalprogram/abstract_72676.htm (473 words)

	Gazette opinion: Saving Montana's Rocky Mountain Front - again - billingsgazette.com
		One of those rare, special places is the Rocky Mountain Front - 100 miles of breathtaking landscape where mountains collide with plains south of Glacier National Park.
		The Friends of the Rocky Mountain Front and many other members of the Coalition to Protect the Rocky Mountain Front are Montanans.
		The fact that regular Montana folks support the Front was demonstrated last month when four of them went to Washington, D.C., for what they expected would be a meeting with a staff member in Sen. Conrad Burns' office.
	www.billingsgazette.com /index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/05/20/build/opinion/30-gaz-op.inc (646 words)

	UROC: Preserve the Rocky Mountain Front (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The mountains dive down into grasslands and for over 200 years have been home to grizzlies, bighorn sheep and peaceful human visitors.
		Thanks, Andrew Hall http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/Rockies?rk=H7aZwZ71Eq-nW ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Preserve the Rocky Mountain Front The U.S. Forest Service wants to allow more than three-quarters of the Rocky Mountain Front to be opened to dirt bikes, all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles, destroying the natural peace and quiet of this wellspring of beauty and life.
		The Rocky Mountain Front is one of our last pristine wild places--the mountains dive down into grasslands and for over 200 years have been home to grizzlies, bighorn sheep and peaceful human visitors.
	www.cif.rochester.edu /pipermail/uroc/2002-December/000123.html (357 words)

	AWR: The Rocky Mountain Front (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Both the Rocky Mountain Front and the Badger-Two Medicine lands to the north are integral extensions of the core wilderness complex.
		Their exploitative efforts, if pursued much further, would inevitably entail additional human development of an unpredictable scope and nature, resulting with the imperilment of the already precarious integrity of these wildlands.
		Where the Mountains Meet the Plains: Oil and Gas Leasing and the Conservation Legacy of the Rocky Mountain Front, a paper prepared for the Montana Wilderness Association.
	www.wildrockies.org /AWR/campaigns/front2.html (453 words)

	BAUCUS WORKING TO PROTECT ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Baucus' amendment would give current natural gas and oil leaseholders in the Front the option of "doing the right thing and finding a less sensitive place to drill for gas and oil" and would extend for an additional three years a current drilling moratorium put in place in 1996.
		The Front contains little in the way of proven oil and gas reserves, but is rich in wildlife habitat — including grizzly, elk, and bighorn sheep -- and is home to world-class hunting, fishing, and recreation opportunities, Baucus said.
		In an effort to address Montana and the nation's energy needs, Baucus is also pushing an amendment to the energy bill that will provide tax incentives for the increased production of domestic sources of energy, promote energy conservation measures, and boost alternative sources of energy, such as wind, solar, biomass, and ethanol.
	baucus.senate.gov /~baucus/Press/03/07/2003801331.html (560 words)

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