A few from a property near Boulder Lakes in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. The Conservation Fund acquired the 600-acre parcel from private landowners and facilitated a sale to the Forest Service in 2025. (Courtesy The Conservation Fund)

A swath of land within the Tobacco Root Mountains that was privately owned is now part of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest after nonprofit organization The Conservation Fund facilitated a land sale this fall.

The 600-acre inholding parcel covered the upper reaches of Dry Boulder Lakes Road including sections of trail that are the gateway to Lower and Upper Boulder Lakes. The area is now fully open and accessible to the public.

“Connecting Montana’s patchwork of public and private lands is the kind of problem the Land and Water Conserva

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