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    Study: Hunters Die After Consuming CWD-Infected Venison

    Conversely, there's a lot that has to happen for the jump to be confirmed in humans. CWD needs to become widespread enough to be encountered at some rate across the landscape; hunters need to harvest and eat infected but asymptomatic animals; people consume infected brain or spinal cord; meat...
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    Study: Hunters Die After Consuming CWD-Infected Venison

    Field and Stream greatly overstated the findings of the bulletin from Nuerology with their sensationalist title. The authors of the bulletin are calling for increased surveillance and further investigation. They didn't conduct, or attempt, a study here. They've merely brought attention to the...
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    Fresh Tracks Weekly - Reform the EAJA for wildlife

    An awards database has been public since the 2019 John Dingell Act. Awards can be looked up here: https://eaja.acus.gov/?action=list&entity=CaseRecord Center for Biological Diversity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, EarthJustice have done especially well for their attorneys over the years. In...
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    My FWP Hunter Survey

    Just got called. Only question was, "did you harvest any elk this year?" No questions on effort or where. Maybe there would have been a follow up if I said yes. I have no confidence in the reliability or statistical validity of the survey.
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    Wilderness Area montage

    I don't think we're in disagreement here. Maybe I should have said, claimed and then managed as wilderness when convenient. The trains and highway down in the valley below the picture sure didn't make it feel like wilderness. For anyone interested in more info...
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    Wilderness Area montage

    Not congressionally designated wilderness, but managed as such.
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    ****OFFICIAL****2024 SPRING BEAR THREAD

    Montana FWP on the board with a moderately sized griz. https://www.kpax.com/news/montana-news/grizzly-bear-euthanized-after-killing-cattle-in-teton-county
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    Burn boss indicted

    Just want to add a few comments from my prescribed fire experience. Most, if not nearly all, of the Rx fires that I've participated in (either actually burning or looking at the plan) are written with an RH of 15% on the low end of the prescription. Most of the plans are written with a range of...
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    Mountain lions "losing fear of man"?

    Mountain lions hanging around communities and stalking people in the national forest isn't excusive to California or in areas where hunting is not occurring. Most of the lions I've seen in Montana didn't stick around for a prolonged observation, but I've also seen some that didn't seem to care...
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    Pyramid Lumber in Seeley Lake, MT Closing

    Weyerhaeuser has its MDF facility in Columbia Falls. Stoltze is also still in operation. https://www.weyerhaeuser.com/blog/weyerhaeusers-plant-in-columbia-falls-montana-is-the-worlds-longest-running-medium-density-fiberboard-facility/...
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    Burn boss indicted

    Update for those following along: on March 15, Snodgrass's (the burn boss) attorneys filed a motion to to move the case to federal district court. They argued, (quoting a Washington Post opinion article), "that “because Mr. Snodgrass was acting in his official capacity as a federal official … he...
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    SB 442 - Habitat and Access

    Fitzpatrick's comments on the judiciary's apparent invasion of separation of powers seems a bit spurious to me. Seems to me like the judiciary is reinforcing the legislature's powers over that of the executive. But as you stated, maybe Fitzpatrick sees this as a party priority and this it is the...
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    SB 442 - Habitat and Access

    The cruiser cam video of his stop a few years back did not disappoint. Everything I was looking for.
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    SB 442 - Habitat and Access

    The veto override is dead due to the senate leadership. Fitzpatrick is still upset over the surprise sine die motion. The override needed two-thirds of each chamber and that will not happen. "Senate President Sen. Jason Ellsworth, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Steve Fitzpatrick, and 26 other...
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    Bipartisan bill to reintroduce wolverines in CO legislature.

    Here's a recent article from the Guardian covering the proposed reintroduction. It offers some additional details and a few contrasting perspectives and opinions...
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    Burn boss indicted

    No chance I'm pleading guilty. Federal official acting in official capacity within scope of the position. The burn boss should be entitled to immunity from state or local prosecution under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. His lawyer should have the case moved to federal court where it...
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    Bipartisan bill to reintroduce wolverines in CO legislature.

    Opposition to wolverine reintroductions will likely include concerns over potential loss of winter recreation areas (motorized mostly) and restrictions on winter recreation development (ski areas). Wolverines generally avoid motorized areas with some use, I hesitate to say low/moderate/high use...
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    The Big Snip - How bad is it?

    Definitely worth it. Take the full three days to recuperate. Myself and two buddies got it done last year, experiences varied. I got the young doctor, I had valium on board when I left home, procedure was probably 15 minutes total. Smoke wasn't nearly as bad as I anticipated. There was a...
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    American Cities

    Your standards for dressing and fitness are quite different than mine, but free country and all that. Looks like a bunch of scrawny, uncoordinated teens in red t-shirts and hoodies wearing masks with a few older pudgy guys thrown in.
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    I-193 to exempt MT Landowners from elk/deer/bear regs

    Vote breakout from the Flathead Beacon article. " The eight Republican members of the committee agreed, framing it as a private property rights issue and revealed no compunctions about supporting it. “I’ll be a yes. One reason is I’m a big private property guy,” said Sen. Steve Hinebauch...

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