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    New ESA Rule

    This will result in no change in behavior for my business. We have no desire, need or want to harm any endangered species. The legality of killing an ES never entered into the equation. We have an awesome track record of not only no harm but providing beneficial habitat for them post, and to a...
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    Manufactured Outrage

    What's her name? She might have worked here before.
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    RMEF opines on Roadless Rule and USFS Travel Management proposals, impotently.

    I build and reclaim roads all day long. It's not even close on cost. Reclaim is much cheaper. But given it's the Feds, I would not be surprised if both were 5 times the cost of the private sector.
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    RMEF opines on Roadless Rule and USFS Travel Management proposals, impotently.

    Like my wife says, its not always about me.
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    RMEF opines on Roadless Rule and USFS Travel Management proposals, impotently.

    Last weekend, the wife and I went 34 miles up a FS road, found a nice, empty spot along the river, fished for a while, and just enjoyed a beautiful day. I think that is a damn good benefit of a FS road. Two weekends ago my neighbor and I spent the day cutting firewood for his place this...
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    RMEF opines on Roadless Rule and USFS Travel Management proposals, impotently.

    I can assure you that you are 100% wrong. I spoke with Rep. Hageman about 3 weeks ago. The original intent was not to discuss the RR but I turned the discussion to the lack of FS funding for existing maintenance as a significnat hurdle to her bill. I suggested offering a mile for mile...
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    RMEF opines on Roadless Rule and USFS Travel Management proposals, impotently.

    Of course roads lead to problems. Never argued roads are nothing but benefits. Just as obvious is sometimes roads have beneficial value. Sometimes the neg outweighs the pos but it is not universal. Current policy of zero miles, seems to me to be as foolish as a policy requiring X miles of...
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    RMEF opines on Roadless Rule and USFS Travel Management proposals, impotently.

    For me its kind of like your take on selling public land. Remember when you would proudly proclaim "not one single acre". Then the FS decides to partner with a group to build public housing on some FS acres in Jackson and you were fully supportive of that. Don't see a lot of houses in the...
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    RMEF opines on Roadless Rule and USFS Travel Management proposals, impotently.

    I think this is a reasonable take. I don't entirely get the push to make more roads when we already don't fund it enough to maintain the ones we got. I don't know enough to know where more roads might be helpful but I would be surprised if such a place didn't exist. I read RMEF's take as...
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    RMEF opines on Roadless Rule and USFS Travel Management proposals, impotently.

    Right on! I would give them quite a bit more credit on their take given their track record but that's just me. Sure seems odd that for the last 41 years they have done better than anyone else at conservation work and partnering with USFS then in year 42 they have gone batsh!t crazy with their...
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    RMEF opines on Roadless Rule and USFS Travel Management proposals, impotently.

    Fun facts about RMEF 9.1M acres conserved or enhanced since 1984 Area larger than the entire state of Maryland RMEF has partnered with USFS on over 3,600 projects of habitat improvement and conservation That work affected 3.8M acres of USFS land Total value of that work $369M RMEF know more...
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    RMEF opines on Roadless Rule and USFS Travel Management proposals, impotently.

    RMEF is hands down the best true conservation org for big game. This makes me seriously consider giving them even more financial support than I already do. A rational, reasoned, balanced response rather than the wheels are coming off hyperbole I expect from most orgs.
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    Seth Bodnar - independent US Senate candidate

    Wacko
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    Artificial Intelligence and Public Comment

    Certainly sounds plausible. One, a select few hyper geniuses have created an Intelligence far more powerful than humans that will result in the end of western civilization as we know it in just a few short years. Two, companies have over-hyped a technology in order to secure investment and...
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    Artificial Intelligence and Public Comment

    Interesting takes, at least IMO. https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/artificial-intelligence/the-timing-of-ai-leaders-calls-for-a-slowdown-is-too-convenient-to-ignore/ar-AA2cd6A9?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=6aa9747d91d04d69a12d9c272fa46671&ei=15...
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    Artificial Intelligence and Public Comment

    There is a difference between having a concern about something and having a hyperbolic, irrational fear of an inanimate object based off a few sci films and a powerful imagination. What I am hearing from a few on this thread is the later and not the former. My concern with AI is that it will...
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    Artificial Intelligence and Public Comment

    Several people making the news rounds a few years ago said the world was going to end by 2032 from climate Change. So blue sky case, we will only have to suffer under our AI overloads for a couple of years.
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    Artificial Intelligence and Public Comment

    I gotcha. Certainly has the potential for harm. I tend to lean more towards issues being far more benign than many others view them. I also think there is a tendency for many, particularly in the US, to need to have something to fear. For so long climate change was the existential threat...
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    Artificial Intelligence and Public Comment

    Just curious, but what scenarios do you envision that result in AI killing our children? Or is it rather the fear of the unknown?
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    New Wyoming Game And Fish Director Announced On Friday, First Woman In Position

    100% he’s a bot.
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