Kipp Recreation Area Visitor Safety Improves with GAOA-Funded Tree Maintenance Project

FERGUS COUNTY, Mont. Throughout August, large-scale tree trimming may affect campsite availability at the James Kipp Recreation Area, part of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument. Work will stop by Sept. 1, 2023, and may resume during the winter season when the campground is closed.

This Great American Outdoors Act-funded work will help address dead cottonwood trees and dead limbs that pose a safety risk to visitors at the James Kipp Recreation Area. Arborists expect to trim 338 trees and fell 41 trees. Only trees with a potential to fall onto areas of maintained infrastructure wi...