SFW & Sen. Jennifer Fielder Transfer of Public Lands

[katqanna]

Montana Sportsmen & Public Land Users to discuss Transfer Public Lands

If this has been posted already, sorry. I did a search and didnt find it, but I am brain friend from coding all week on the mail server program.

Save the date. Spread the word! Transfer Public Lands informational
meetings coming to Northwest Montana:

*WEDS DEC 10 - MISSOULA, MT: Montana Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife
(MT-SFW) will host an informational meeting about Transferring Federally Controlled Public Lands to the state. *
WHERE: C'Mon Inn in Missoula, MT.
TIME: Doors open for social hour at 5pm. Official meeting begins at 6pm. (see attached flyer)
WHO: open to MT-SFW members and guests. New members can sign up at the door.
*Sen Jennifer Fielder has been invited to provide key findings from
Montana's Study of Federal Land Management as well as the legal,
environmental, social, and economic case for shifting to state based public land management.

Also, good explanation on the bs with Ken Ivory and the Federal Lands trade rewriting of history.
Ken Ivory and Gov. Herbert are bamboozling you about public lands

 

[belly-deep]

I wish I was still living in Missoula to ask a few questions

 

[Topgun 30-06]

So has MT-SFW come out for or against the feds selling the land to the state?

 

[Straight Arrow]

feds selling the land to the state?

Ceding, not selling is the issue. Some congressmen have proposed selling to private parties at the national level.
Sen. Fielder is a proponent of the Montana GOP platform plank aimed at forcing the Federal government to cede federal public lands to the state. Likely the only way the state could afford to manage those public lands would be to sell some of them off or lease them at high rates. Any outcome would be detrimental to public land hunting and other recreational activities as we now enjoy on those public lands..

 

[schmalts]

So has MT-SFW come out for or against the feds selling the land to the state?

My thoughts too. As soon as you see SFW you really have to wonder. I wonder what they think about stream access and wolves and auction tags??

 

[katqanna]

Just on a quick search, I could not find a position statement at the SFW site or MT site, but according to Fielder and the American Lands Council site (Utah, Ken Ivory), they are hosting Fielder to speak on this issue of transferring federal public land to the states. And it is not like they dont know what she is advocating, its the event. In May, in Missoula, there was another event and Fielders booth advocating transferring federal public lands was right next to SFW's.

 

[Ben Lamb]

Senator Fielder just dropped over 20 bill draft requests on this issue:

http://laws.leg.mt.gov/legprd/LAW0203W$BSRV.ActionQuery?P_SESS=20151&P_BLTP_BILL_TYP_CD=&P_BILL_NO=&P_BILL_DFT_NO=&P_CHPT_NO=&P_ENTY_ID_SEQ2=15235&P_SBJT_SBJ_CD=&P_ENTY_ID_SEQ=&Z_ACTION2=Find

Get those swords and axes oiled and sharpened. It's time to do battle.

 

[katqanna]

Fielder bills and drafts

Thats going to be alot of the public time and resources, including our taxpayer dollars fighting this. Hell, she has another Study the transfer of federal lands bill, 1762, which she submitted before (study on public land management which she used for federal lands transfer), was put as chair of for the EQC SJ15 working group. Public comment got that part of the study rejected and she is still pursuing this. They also rejected a separate committee just for federal lands trade, so she is submitting 1773 to do it anyway.

 

[Big Fin]

Spool 'em all the rope they want.

 

[grizzly_]

From page 286 of Utah's fiscal analysis, which is a 'twin brother from a different mother' to Montana's public land grab...

"If the state takes over management of the federal land currently used for wildlife associated activities there is a chance a cost benefit analysis can be performed to determine the best use of the public land. This could include reallocating hunting and fishing areas for alternative uses including oil and gas production, commercial development, or other types of recreation. This however, would likely have a negative effect on wildlife associated recreation as wildlife would be displaced by human intervention. Likewise, hunters and anglers may be discouraged from participating near private industry. Similarly, they may not desire an area that becomes developed and crowded by other industrial pursuits."

When it says "reallocating hunting and fishing areas for commercial development", it means selling public land to the highest bidder.

This is not good for wildlife or sportsmen, and it was never meant to be. Period.

Grizzly

 

[Ben Lamb]

The Utah Economic Study is a great read if anyone is interested. It basically says Transfer is profitiable only if the Fed gives up all royalty to oil and gas and the price of oil has to stay above $80 a barrel.

So in other words, it's not profitable and it's going to cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars every year to pay for the boondoogle.

or hell, maybe they'll just sell it all and not worry about, ala Nevada.

 

[RobG]

University of Idaho Report Finds Public Lands Takeover Would Lose Money

http://www.boiseweekly.com/CityDesk...-finds-public-lands-takeover-would-lose-money