A plan for the managment of historic mines in Montana
Subtitle: placer & hardrock
By: compiled by Josef J Warhank
Contributors: United States. Forest Service; United States. Bureau of Land Management; Montana State Historic Preservation Office; United States. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
Publisher: Montana State Historic Preservation Office]
Published: 1999
Place of publication: [Helena, Montana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
Subjects: Abandoned mined lands reclamation; Planning; Management; Historic sites; Conservation and restoration; Coal mines and mining; Gold mines and mining; Mines and mineral resources; History
Description: This overview focuses on the development and progress of hard rock & placer mining operations across Montana.  The document consists of a comprehensive review of hard-rock & placer mines using unpublished records form out Cultural Resource Annotated Bibliography System (CRABS) files which were all gleaned in our effort to produce an in-depth and comprehensive overview of the historic mining activity in Montana.  Mary Horstman of the United States Forest Service wrote the larger mining context in Chapter 2, and the chronology that follow is from Searching For The Mother Load, by Zane L. Fulbright.  The Bureau of Land Management was responsible for providing a large portion of the financial backing which was essential.--Page I-1.
Notes: A Plan called for the Programmatic Agreement among the USDA Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Montana State Historic Preservation Officer, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation regarding the management of historic placer and lode mining properties in Montana.

"April 1999."
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Historical Overview; title: Context by Regions; title: Property Categories and Types; title: Management Recommendations; title: Appendices.