BLM land management meeting draws crowd

More than 50 people — some from regions far off the Hi-Line — attended a meeting in Havre to hear about plans on how the U.S. Bureau of Land Management will manage its land on the Hi-Line.

BLM held a meeting in Havre Wednesday to present its draft — and to request comments on that draft — of its plan for resource management on BLM land across the Hi-Line from Valley through Glacier counties.

Brian Hockett, BLM project manager on the drafting of the plan, stressed that nothing is final in the proposal, which is available online at http://www.blm.gov/8qkd.

“This is a draft document,” he said. “T...