Resources & Helpful Links

Bureau of Land Management

• BLM's Virtual Visitor Center for the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument. Check out their new website! Includes visitor information, maps, recreational opportunities, photos, and a description of Monument objects and values.
• Draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (September 2005).
• BLM - Lewistown Field Office - Floating the Upper Missouri River. Includes a guide to floating the Missouri River from Fort Benton to James Kipp Recreation Area and highlights areas along the river for geologic and historic significance.
• About the BLM's Central Montana Resource Advisory Council.
• State Director's Interim Guidance for managing the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, Final, June 6, 2001. The interim management plan for the new monument.
• Federal Register notice directing the BLM to prepare a management plan for the Monument.

Other good friends of the Monument

• The Conservation System Alliance
• American Hiking Association
• The Wilderness Society, Northern Rockies Office
• Montana Wilderness Association - Island Range Chapter
• Montana Wildlife Federation
• National Wildlife Federation
• National Parks Conservation Association, Northern Rockies Office.
• American Rivers
• Sierra Club - Lewis and Clark Trail conservation.
• Republicans for Environmental Protection
• Montana River Action
• National Landscape Conservation System Coalition
• Montana River Action

Monument Gateway Communities

• The Journey begins in Fort Benton -- history and information about Fort Benton, river gateway to the Monument.
• Lewistown Chamber of Commerce
• Lewistown News-Argus
• Malta, Montana
• Great Falls, Montana

River and Breaks Outfitters

• Upper Missouri River Guides, outfitters, paddling guides, equipment rentals, Lewis and Clark history guides.
• Missouri River Breaks -- general information on history and natural features.
• Paddling Montana, by Hank Fischer, excerpt from FalconGuide on Wild and Scenic Missouri River paddling.
• Big Wild Adventures - Missouri River canoe trips.

Lewis and Clark in Montana

• The National Park Service - Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail
• The National Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Council
• VIA's Presents Discovering Lewis and Clark
• Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
• Lewis and Clark in Montana
• USDA Forest Service - Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center, Great Falls

Missouri Breaks in the Arts

Lewis and Clark & the Corps of Discovery: The White Cliffs of the Missouri, Montana - © Monte Dolack, 2001. Available at the Portage Cache Store, Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, Great Falls, Montana.

Reading List

Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, By Rick and Susie Graetz, Northern Rockies Publishing, Helena, Montana.

Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Reading List

Missouri River Reading List

Become a Friend of the Monument -- Join Us!

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