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Dear Don;
I read recently your post on Monster Muleys where you confused my dear Friend Ben Long with me, Ben Lamb. I am flattered that you would confuse me with such a well spoken, effective advocate for wildlife such as Ben Long. In fact, I often aspire to be more like Ben.
Unfortunately, you have us confused. Let me introduce myself.
My name is Ben Lamb. I originally met your organization in 2003 in Wyoming. This is right after you formed the Wyoming Chapter of SFW. You had come in strongly supporting the position of dual classification for wolves, as proposed by the Wyoming Wool Growers and Stockgrowers Associations, and the Wyoming Farm Bureau. This plan was adopted over the objections of the actual game mangers in the Trophy Game Management Unit of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. This department had crafted a sensible, well reasoned, and liberal approach to wolf management. It also would have met the requirement of an adequate regulatory mechanism and would have delisted wolves much, much earlier than when we shoved a sensible delisting bill up your ass in 2011.
I also helped defeat your attempts to kill the Simpson/Tester
delisting rider, and I helped defeat all of your bills in the 2011 Montana Legislative session. Especially the ones that would have been unconstitutional, diverted over $24 million in wildlife revenue, or continued the federal management of wolves for the foreseeable future.
By the way, when our stream access law was under assault, we never saw the SFW hats or shirts at the committee hearings, in the halls or with the over 450 hunters and anglers who showed up at the Capitol to rally against HB 309. We never saw SFW show up to testify alongside the hundreds of sportsmen and women who battled over 250 bills that would have severely eroded the North American Model, public opportunity and the public trust. There were bills that would have forced FWP to put economics over science, and there were bills to force the sale of public land. We killed those bills, and we killed your attempt to undermine Montana's wolf management plan. We did this alongside every other sportsmen's group and thousands of Montana hunters and anglers. Because we were able to stop your attempts to continue to wolf gravy train, we now have a hunt in Montana and Idaho. Wolves in the Great Lakes are delisted, and with any luck, Wyoming will be delisted soon.
I had the good fortune to work with Senator Tester and Senator Baucus (it's spelled Baucus, by the way. He's the ranking Senator and the chairman of Senate Finance and Claims.) on the delisting rider you are currently taking credit for. I must say, I can’t remember hearing your name spoken of in a positive manner with all of the elected officials I dealt with. Same goes for your council, Mr. Benson (JD, Harvard). In fact, I found it astonishing, given your long and close relationship with this issue, that Senator Tester didn’t invite you to be on the tele-press conference when he announced that the delisting rider passed Congress. He had rancher and outfitter Jack Rich, and myself.
Me, the same guy you've repeatedly called anti-hunter, and faker. Me. That’s my work and thousands of other sportsmen whose work you are taking credit for. We don’t appreciate what you are doing.
But hey, you got the BBC article. Good for you.
Mr. Peay, quit taking credit for work you did not do, or for things that you worked actively against.
