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Who’s defending Hoodoo Mountain Wilderness Study Area?

BLM land in Montana, 11,380 acres, managed by the Bureau of Land Management, designated in 1977.

The defenders

Nobody has claimed this fight yet

No group in our directory carries Hoodoo Mountain Wilderness Study Area in its work yet. That is not the same as nobody fighting: if you know the group that belongs here, tell us and our editors will look at it.

18 more work nearby but are not tied to Hoodoo Mountain Wilderness Study Area on the record

The situation

What’s happening to Hoodoo Mountain Wilderness Study Area

Tucked in the Garnet Range between Ovando and Lincoln, Hoodoo Mountain is 11,380 acres of rugged BLM land that has been protected as a wilderness study area for nearly half a century. Senator Daines’ Montana Sportsmen Conservation Act would strip that status and return it to general management, despite overwhelming public opposition to releasing Montana’s WSAs.

  1. 1977Designated as wilderness study area
  2. 2025Daines introduces Montana Sportsmen Conservation Act (S.3527)
  3. 2026Federal agencies testify in support of WSA release
Daines bill S.3527 would strip WSA protection

Source: Montana Free Press · February 12, 2026

No public comment window is open on Hoodoo Mountain Wilderness Study Area right now. A call script is ready on the Public Lands Action Network, and the groups above are how the fight gets funded and argued in the meantime.

Your move

How to stand for Hoodoo Mountain Wilderness Study Area

Build my lineup around Hoodoo Mountain Wilderness Study Area: the leading group here opens it, and the other seats fill from this record.

Hoodoo Mountain Wilderness Study Area has defenders. It needs more.

The work is theirs. The backing is yours.

Sources and methodThe situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for Hoodoo Mountain Wilderness Study Area, with per-item sources. Which groups are on the record for this place: MTJP editors tie a group to a fight only with a source link they have read, one link at a time. A group without one is shown as likely to care, a guess from the federal court record and the group’s own mission and footprint. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Data verified as of 2026-10-04. Nothing on this page is pay-to-play.