LISA JAMES/PressA deer stands in a patch of trees near a meadow along lower Yellowstone Trail and Blue Creek Bay where the Bureau of Land Management is planning a 751-acre conservation that will include increased public access and recreation oppurtunites.The project contains open meadows and marshy area which are popular with wildlife, and forested hilltops where trees will be selectively thinned for trees damaged by the 2015 drought.

June 16, 2017