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Lee Metcalf Wilderness

Wilderness Area in Rocky Mountains, MT

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The Lee Metcalf Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Montana. Created by an act of Congress in 1983, the wilderness is in four separated parcels: Bear Trap Canyon unit, Spanish Peaks unit, Taylor-Hilgard unit, and Monument Mountains unit. The Bear Trap Canyon unit is managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior), and comprises a region of canyonlands adjacent to the Madison River. Bear Trap Canyon is the very first designated wilderness area to be managed by the Bureau of Land Management anywhere in the U.S. The other three sections of the wilderness are jointly managed by Beaverhead-Deerlodge and Gallatin National Forests both of which are a part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The portion of the wilderness within…

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