Vincent Logging, a family-owned logging company in Libby is working with Hecla Mining Company to manage its forested lands for wildlife habitat.

It's a 1,500 acre research project to determine which management techniques provide the best habitat for endangered species.

In an effort to learn more about the science behind it all, the project would guide forest management practices and boost a modernized forest products industry.

NBC Montana met Vincent Logging Company owner, Chas Vincent as he was thinning overstocked trees on the south end of the Cabinet Mountains

It's forest land in the Bull Lake area on Hecla Mining property near Troy.

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