HD 448 covers the Lima Peaks, the Tendoy front, and the country along the southern Beaverhead River drainage between Lima and Dell—high sagebrush bench and timbered foothill country running up to the Idaho border on the south. Elevations span 5,500 feet on the Beaverhead River bottom to over 10,000 feet on the Lima Peaks ridges and the southern Beaverhead Mountain divide. The country is high, dry, and open—sage flats, native bunchgrass, irrigated hay along the river, with Douglas fir and limber pine on the foothills, juniper and mountain mahogany on the rocky benches, and lodgepole climbing to spruce-fir on the higher north faces. The Big Sheep Creek drainage cuts west into the Beaverhead Range and reaches into the Italian Peaks country on the divide—dramatic high country. Mule deer use the foothills and rocky benches; pronghorn on the open valley; elk in the upper drainages; some moose in the willow bottoms. Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF on the high country, with substantial BLM tracts on the foothills and benches, and private ranches in the valley. I-15 cuts the unit north-south; MT-324 (Big Sheep Creek Road) climbs west into the range; secondary BLM and county routes handle the rest. Lima is tiny—gas, the Lima Cafe, a motel; Dell is even smaller (the Dell Cafe is famous in a roundabout way for the Calf-A); Dillon is north on I-15 with full services. Cell service holds along I-15 and gets thin elsewhere. The country sees lighter pressure than the more famous units to the north and has historically produced quality mule deer for hunters who walk the BLM and the foothill country.