You’re right current timber sales don’t cover cost, so ramp up SELECTIVE logging, make our forests healthy, and cheapen up lumber costs. Get our saw mills back in production. We are in a housing crisis, and cost of building is thru the roof. Every extra 2x4, sheet of plywood, etc...
Make the necessary roads for fire suppression. Then close them for hunting season…..I’ve not read all the comments, so if someone already said it, sorry for redundancy
Sounds like the war is against all.
This proposal does nothing to create “older bigger deer”. That is a LIE brought forth by a couple outfitters and relayed to a legislator, who helped perpetrate this.
Those outfitters are diametrically opposed to any change, on account they “don’t...
161 was the biggest lie perpetrated on Montana voters in my life.
It did take our outfitter set aside license(OSL)or “guaranteed license”(had it not been misnomered by that connotation we’d probably still have it).
People were misled into believing we(outfitters) were “guaranteed a...
Gov. Signed HB 514 of Sen. Hunters into law. This was an idea I threw out here on HT a long time ago. I cosponsored the bill. This bill gives Mt R sportsmen the first 10 days of season with no NR competition on accessible lands.
I’m the old guy wearing straw hat sitting down.
Our original proposal would have solved most all these challenges being brought up.
Problem is nobody wants to give anything up, because that affects “ME” and I don’t like it.
Pick your region, separate wt tag and separate md tag. Pick your region and species when you buy, apply...
It’s a very simple case, either the road is public or it is not.
Knowing the Outfitter in question, as well as I do, would have given his landowner the advice of do not even think of closing it if it’s a public road.
Everybody wants to blame the big bad Outfitter in this. None of us...
It’s the landowners decision to allow access thru his private land, and his alone. His decision as when to lock unlock his gate.
Just like you make a decision to lock or not lock your homes or cars door daily.
There is plenty of good easy legal access to this ground anyway. People...
If the road had been open to the public year round for access the last 10 years I’d say there would be grounds for a prescriptive easement. According to my source it hasn’t been open to the public.
If it was “open to travel” 40-50 years ago when nobody really cared, it was by permissive...
Just because the gate is not locked for nine months doesn’t mean that I am welcome to drive through it.
One first must understand the mindset of these remote land owners they rarely to never see anybody for nine months out of the year. They go to town only when necessary.
No it doesn’t...
I don’t have access to it, and would expect nothing less than a trespassing fine were I arrogant enough to drive through the gate without first speaking to the landowner.