I would second speaking with a local extension specialist or someone from the county NRCS office.
I would really discourage bulldozing the sage. That’s a bit of an extreme disturbance and would make the site vulnerable to invasive weeds and annual grasses. I would also discourage using...
Dang, fisheries are the highest functioning division in the agency. I guess someone thought they needed to drop down a peg or two.
She’ll get a year or two of pay and “retire”. Pretty standard procedure at FWP these days.
My guess is that job will be very hard to fill.
IIRC, the TV show Wardens (Montana), got a ticket from the USFS for not having a film permit. I’m not sure if they gave FWP a ticket too, but that would be hilarious.
I don’t know much about water rights but I find it hard to believe that the cost of water rights to be used in the area they are attached to is more than building a pipeline. I would think the market for these rights isn’t great as agricultural lands in the valley for them to be used on is...
What happens to all the water rights attached to the land being consumed by development in the Gallitan Valley? Isn’t a lot of the flood and sprinkler irrigated?