Some participants on this thread are debating the details while the devil is in the main intent.
Montanans will decide in the election this Fall which side of the land transfer deal they will be on.
Here is the deal that's going down.
Millions of acres of land and waters worth trillions of...
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The national political agenda. Republicans make a big push to sell off federal lands every five or ten years. The program is always the same. GOP dominated state legislatures pass sell-off resolutions to create the myth of grassroots demand. This is coordinated with the national party and with...
Just in case somebody believes this is not a national political agenda
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/02/11/3277571/republican-party-state-public-lands-drilling/
Homegrown Montana public land privateers
You don't have to go all the way to Utah to find the great sagebrush land grab at work. Right now State Senator John Brenden is leading a so-called study committee to examine the idea of Montana following the Utah example and demanding takeover of...
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Roots, Respect and social permission to hunt
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Video of elk in Durfee Hills - just try to count them
Central Montana Hunters For Public Access has posted this brief YouTube video showing what we stand to lose by trading away the Durfee Hills.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdJ1IytnyT8
We are challenged to think of these isolated public...
Central Montana Hunters For Public Access has posted this YouTube video showing what we stand to lose by trading away the Durfee Hills.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdJ1IytnyT8
Central Montana Hunters For Public Access has posted this brief YouTube video showing what we stand to lose by trading away the Durfee Hills.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdJ1IytnyT8
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News-Argus story - Hunters take stand against Wilks land exchange
Great story on the Central Montana Hunters' stand against the Wilks-Durfee/Bullwhacker exchange.
Lewistown News Argus, Saturday, March 15
http://www.etypeservices.com/Lewistown%20NewsID421/default.aspx
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Spoke to Sec Jewell after meeting
I approached Sec Jewell after the Wheeler program. I identified myself as a PLWA member and asked her to elevate public access to public lands as an administrative priority within the BLM. She gave the same boilerplate response I've heard from a series of...
Attached map graphic showing both parcels in discussion
The Bullwhacker area is shown on the left map with a dashed green line and question mark to indicate the general vicinity of an access route coming in from the east. The right hand map is the Little Snowies area of the Wilks' consolidated...