Rosendale is a full-blown enemy to Public Lands. See this comment from a
2014 Missoulian article:
“If we were able to manage and control those lands, we would be able to generate much more economic development opportunities,” Rosendale said. “We would be able to harvest a lot of that timber, we’d be able to acquire the minerals that are located in those areas and once again utilize the economic opportunities that are located in there.”
He said the federal government is losing money managing federal lands in states. The federal government is denying access for recreation, compromising air quality by not allowing logging, which leads to forest fires, and hurting fisheries as well.
“It’s economically unfriendly, environmentally unfriendly and adverse to the Constitution,” he said.
Wow. These kind of comments show that he is either so arrogant and narrow-minded in his pursuit to monetize everything for the short term, or completely checked out to the reality that outdoor recreation is a multi-billion dollar benefit to the state of Montana. Can we get a Randy/Rinella/Tawney cage fight going with this guy please?