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The U.S. Forest Service is poised to allow limited use of a helicopter, motor vehicles and two motorized tools to remove the McKinley Lake Dam in the Rattlesnake Wilderness north of Missoula next summer.
The Lolo National Forest issued a draft decision notice approving limited motorized equipment use and limited helicopter and vehicle access needed to breach and decommission the century-old earth-and-timber dam on McKinley Lake high in the Rattlesnake Wilderness.