Just listened to your interview on Hunt Backcountry. Thank you for all the work that you do. Hunters of all flavors need to come together now more than ever.
Ben, as you know, I deeply respect and admire the collaborative approach you take toward land use/management issues. And as the father of a one year old, the time I have to track these issues is much more scarce than in years past.
I guess my questions are: why is submitting a plan right now...
I'm curious as to why the Montana Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and Montana Wildlife Federation endorse Greater Yellowstone Coalition's Conservation and Recreation Act (links below), when the proposal will increase recreation in SW MT's existing WSAs and most assuredly result in the decline in...
Yeah the sarcasm must not have made it through.. We keep electing representatives that propose/enact laws directly opposed by a majority of Montanans on a whole host of outdoor issues. It's frustrating.
HB 635 and bulls for billionaires are like Keystone light and natural light. They are both...
Yes and yes. Go check out the hunting in New Mexico and Texas for what the short-term and long-term future looks like if we continue to get railroaded by NR landowners.
You are mistaken. I am not talking about the rights of the landowner. I am talking about the opportunity provided to the hunter.
If game animals are on privately owned land, no hunter has the opportunity to hunt them without the landowner's permission. On the other hand, if the landowner can...
I'm not sure how you can provide equal opportunity to hunting and fishing without regard to land ownership, when land harboring game animals can be privately owned.
I took a nice muley on my folks property one year that I am positive I had the exclusive opportunity to hunt.
Absolutely. I rode a chairlift up a Colorado resort a few years ago with a fellow many decades my senior. He was telling me about how he used to drive a two lane highway and park in the shoulder to ski the portion of the mountain we were on. I glanced behind me to see four lanes of interstate, a...
The ESA exists, and I quote from the enabling law creating the Act, to protect species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation" and to protect "the ecosystems on which endangered species and threatened species depend."...
I was all for the delisting of g-bears and the transfer of their management to the states until I attended a talk last week hosted by Todd Wilkinson and Christopher Servheen. Servheen led g-bear conservation in the US for the federal government for 35 years. While he once supported delisting...
No update, but I did see a recent opinion column pointing out that RMEF has not joined the intervenors. This is disheartening. How can an organization whose stated mission is to "ensure the future of elk, other wildlife, their habitat and our hunting heritage," sit this one out...
I was born and raised in Bozeman and still live here. Same with my Dad. Same with his Mom until she passed. It is the best place on earth. If the influx of people and congestion bothers you, wake up earlier. It is honestly that simple.