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    Removing Sage brush

    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...
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    FWP Fisheries Director Ousted?

    He also will not give FWP authority to spend over $16,000,000 in Habitat MT funds from pot tax. It’s a mixed bag. So much more good could be done.
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    FWP Fisheries Director Ousted?

    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.
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    FILM act

    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.
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    Canyon Ferry Bozeman Water Pipeline

    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...
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    Canyon Ferry Bozeman Water Pipeline

    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?
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    Montana - Time to Shake it Up?

    I”m not sure the cannibis tax money can be used for research. 75% goes to Habitat MT and 25% to the reincarnated WHIP program.
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    Bitterroot N. F. Forest Management Study

    Lick Creek is part of this very interesting work. https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/32994
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    Matt Rinella is categorically confused

    Matt is a heck of an ecologist.
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    Montana - Ballot Initiative would allow Montana Landowners to Hunt Without Permits

    He should brush up on the public trust doctrine then.
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    Montana - Ballot Initiative would allow Montana Landowners to Hunt Without Permits

    The fact that FWP couldn’t be bothered to show up in inexcusable.
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    I-193 to exempt MT Landowners from elk/deer/bear regs

    Where does it say this?
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    I-193 to exempt MT Landowners from elk/deer/bear regs

    The attorney general said it’s cool so I’m not too concerned.
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    HELL YEAH BROTHER!!!

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