After following this for a couple of days I have to say its pretty clear these guys knew what they were doing and quite frankly, I’m utterly amazed by their statement on their website. The follow up article with FWP giving more detail about the fishing violations and the commissioner for the MT...
"that feeling soon soured when a Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks warden, followed by a TV show videographer, approached Latvala as he was gutting the bull and asked to see his nonresident elk tag"
Must have been a slow day shooting film....
The point I'm trying to make is that the east could ruin the way we access water. Im just using the ppl case as an example of scotus making changes in MT.
That's the point right? Although the PPL case had nothing to do with stream access, the rationalization about the Missouri and its "navigability" is that what makes sense in the West is going to get lost back East. My fear if this gets in front of the SCOTUS.
Hate to say it but I'm sure this one is headed on up. Not like this one broke Kennedy's bank. And to those back East, the Missouri River is "non navigable" so the concept of public use of water over private land is probably hard to grasp at best. Not Good At All.
Well done and congrats. That must have been a terrible pack-out ;) Manged to squeeze a bull in a Subaru once. The weight in the back certainly made the drive out on the snow-rutted road interesting!
That's why you always reply "the guns are for protection, the orange is so I don't get shot by a hunter, the dog is my companion, my backpack is full of camping gear, and I'm doing a river clean up; that's why there's all this fishing gear and empty beer cans."
It works sixty percent of the...
you guys have a far better bead on this than I do. I've always just grabbed a new canister and used countless "used ones" for car camping or firing up some warm-up coffee while floating.