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Domestic Livestock in the Bighorn National Forest
Fair point. My overall viewpoint is that there are ways for certain environmental groups to be involved and part of the solution rather than waiting in the wings to sue. At this point, it seems that is not the path they would like to take. Hopefully that changes in the future. I guess this...- mtlilguy
- Post #53
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Domestic Livestock in the Bighorn National Forest
The environmental groups don't even collect their own data before challenging decisions in court so this is all fantasyland. But it doesn't have to be. Federal agencies contract upland vegetation and riparian consulting firms to collect and/or establish monitoring every year. What if, in...- mtlilguy
- Post #50
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Domestic Livestock in the Bighorn National Forest
It would hold up the same as any federal employee doing the study. Seasonals are hired each year, taught the protocol in 2 weeks, and asked to go and do good things. Having an environmental group's name on the form instead of the 19 year old college kid that just learned to ID plants would make...- mtlilguy
- Post #48
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Domestic Livestock in the Bighorn National Forest
And while preparing for/responding to the legal arguments brought on by "environmentalists" even less vegetative analysis is being done. What if those "environmentalists" assisted in the vegetative data gathering portion? That might support their own argument stating changes need to be made as...- mtlilguy
- Post #45
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Hill County, MT State Land losing access
Not sure what the outcome was but Road 70 South still gets you access to the Northeast corner of section 16 the OP was talking about.- mtlilguy
- Post #3
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Newest US Senate Land Sale Amendment
The same government forms, processes, environmental reviews, regulatory requirements and time requirements have to be completed by federal land managers whether it is 40 acres or 4,000 acres. Their management decision space and area where they can effect change is that 40 acres in the middle of...- mtlilguy
- Post #35
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Comment here on eradication of NEPA
:rolleyes: It's not the "eradication of NEPA". This rule removes regulations issued specifically by CEQ. Agencies still have their own regulations and policies for performing environmental reviews that keep them in compliance with NEPA. The requirement to perform environmental reviews of...- mtlilguy
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Cancer fight begins
Both my grandfather and my father had prostate cancer. My grandfather was diagnosed in the early 2000s and received radiation treatments. I was too young to know the ins and outs of his treatment but I remember my family talking about radiation treatments involving implanted seeds. His cancer...- mtlilguy
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- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Jasper wildfire/climate change
Don't count out your hunting spots just yet. The food sources will be there for them a lot quicker than you think. There will be areas of sterilized soil that wont have much more than forbs growing there for a couple of years, but other areas will have grass, forbs and even trees/shrubs...- mtlilguy
- Post #14
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Safari Club International supports WEST Act to withdraw Public land rule
It's hard to say if anyone, even those involved in drafting the rule, truly know what this ends up looking like a few years from now. It seems to me like this was somewhat unnecessary. There's nothing currently preventing the BLM from considering and/or implementing conservation related...- mtlilguy
- Post #11
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Montana - Time to Shake it Up?
A cow's winter range and deer/elk winter range are in different places. Ranchers will keep them closer to home and/or in easily accessible pastures for feeding and calving. Deer and elk like breaks topography and/or secluded areas with browse/grass close by. -
Alright you MT R doe killers, fess up.
I get 1 muley doe tag every year in R6 in addition to my general tag. Some years I fill it, some years I don't. Some years I fill my either sex tag with a buck, some years I don't. I have set my own personal limitations as to what animals are harvested to fill those tags. I share the same... -
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Montana mule deer rant
Are you thinking soil type differences in relation to the habitat quality that can/can't grow there? Or soil type differences in relation to the minerals each has/lacks? I think both could be part of the equation to some degree. At the county vs county scale, I think habitat quality provided... -
Does Camouflage Really Work
Its not the camo pattern guys... Get you some HECS- mtlilguy
- Post #50
- Forum: Other Product and Gear
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Maybe some good news? Proposed BLM land purchase on the Musselshell River
When submitting your comments, consider mentioning other resource issues BLM should consider during the analysis of the acquisition. For example, travel management of existing roads. Livestock grazing management. The BLM's process for analyzing the impacts of acquiring new land is not just...- mtlilguy
- Post #8
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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BLM Grazing Overhaul
So do wildlife. So do hunters. So do others recreating on public lands and driving on roads, both open and closed. I will admit each of those have different levels of contribution to the spread, but each are still a factor. Nothing is obvious. Cattle may have not even been what introduced...- mtlilguy
- Post #153
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Synthetic Beef - Impact On Public Grazing?
Understood. I guess my point was that I don't think public land grazing would go away or reduce as a result of synthetic beef gaining market share, but rather the opposite could occur since public land grazing is cheaper for producers.- mtlilguy
- Post #79
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Synthetic Beef - Impact On Public Grazing?
So let's say plant based and synthetic beef substitutes do take more of the market share. 1) Wouldn't that drive real beef prices down due to less demand as well as trying to get consumers to purchase real beef versus the alternative products? 2) If beef prices drop to a level that makes...- mtlilguy
- Post #70
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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Landlocked BLM
I have heard BLM folks refer to parcels like this as the "forgotten lands". A clerical error when writing/granting a warranty deed leaves small parcels in government ownership even though the intent might have been to sell them during the homesteading days, or the purchaser simply forgot to...- mtlilguy
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