Recent content by Hunting Wife
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Land management agency impact stories...
Just adding to this…here’s a map. https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/ecosystems-mission-area-locations Colleagues in USGS have told me every office on this map is being eliminated. Completely defunded in the proposed budget for 2026. Likely getting RIF notices next week. This branch...- Hunting Wife
- Post #397
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Land management agency impact stories...
I think the way it’s being wielded by this admin is a red herring. Dismantling the entire government and exposing its entire underpinnings, data, and security systems to foreign actors in the name of national security is itself the largest violation of national security I’ve ever witnessed...- Hunting Wife
- Post #379
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Land management agency impact stories...
As is the complete and utter ignorance of what federal land management employees actually do. Seems to be willful ignorance too, since it’s been explained ad nauseum yet people still continue with the assinine comments. If you really want to talk about facts… No agency I’m familiar with has...- Hunting Wife
- Post #373
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Land management agency impact stories...
I must have missed the part where DOGE was blamed for the poop and needles. I assure you the poop and needles have been there long before DOGE. But it’s true that DOGE terminated the employees and contracts that cleaned up the poop and needles. Which of these facts do you take issue with...- Hunting Wife
- Post #358
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Does anyone feel like outdoor recreation declining back to post-COVID level?
I wish. First nice weekend and it’s bonkers. We’ve been wondering where all the people suddenly appeared from.- Hunting Wife
- Post #3
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Land management agency impact stories...
I added up the years for just the folks I directly interact with that we lost last week. Over 500 years combined experience, and it’s a tiny fraction of the total. Combined with our last few years of new recruits almost completely lacking relevant experience, we are not in a good place.- Hunting Wife
- Post #241
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Land management agency impact stories...
First- congrats. Wish I could do the same. Second- I hope you took the opportunity to send a resume they’ll never forget 😁- Hunting Wife
- Post #226
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Dept of Interior handed over to DOGE
I wish. Elon is running out of steam. DOGE is now installed at the highest levels of every gov department, and have final authority over just about everything. They aren’t going anywhere anytime soon I don’t think.- Hunting Wife
- Post #5
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
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NR Upland Seasons (LC3901)
If they are catching hatch-year pheasants, they are catching hatch-year sharptails. Hell, my dog has caught hatch-year sharpies on the opener. I struggle to see how they aren’t negatively impacting those public land birds at a vulnerable time.- Hunting Wife
- Post #77
- Forum: MONTANA
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620-20
Congrats! That’s fun country to hunt. Hope you cross paths with a bull that was worth the wait, and end up with a grand story to tell.- Hunting Wife
- Post #7
- Forum: Elk
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Diesel heaters.
Have only ice fished with a diesel heater, and I personally thought it was a pain. Was finicky, leaked in the truck, didn’t want to start at times. Idk. Plus I just hate having to deal with batteries, especially in the cold. Have used a buddy’s Nu-Way camping and ice fishing. Simple. Not messy...- Hunting Wife
- Post #7
- Forum: Gear, Gear Deals & Gear Talk
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Bill to end perpetual DOI conservation easements
Can’t say I didn’t see this one coming. https://fedorchak.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswomen-fedorchak-and-hageman-champion-conservation-easement-reform- Hunting Wife
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- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
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End of Grizzly Delisting?
Basically, the Acts themselves provide very little detail about how they should be implemented. The Acts generally direct an agency to develop the rules and regulations, which are then published in the Federal Register and become part of the Code of Federal Regulations. ESA rules and...- Hunting Wife
- Post #23
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
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End of Grizzly Delisting?
And just like that, an avenue to rewrite the regulations that govern implementation of ESA (and Migratory Bird Treaty Act…and FLPMA….and others)...- Hunting Wife
- Post #21
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
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Montana missouri breaks sheep 2025 regs.
With “homesteading” being so trendy with the transplants, and Montana being perceived as the last remnant of the “Wild West”, I doubt many are going to be receptive to state employees infringing on their rights to have their unpasteurized goat milk, make their goat cheese and sell their organic...- Hunting Wife
- Post #105
- Forum: BIG THREE - Moose, Goat, Sheep
