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Alert: Forest Plan Rule public meetings scheduled

March 16, 2011

Forest Planning Rule meetings scheduled  Three meetings have been scheduled by the Forest service to present and answer questions regarding the release of the new proposed forest Planning Rule.These are important meetings to attend.   CBU is currently reviewing the  253 page DEIS and should have information available very soon on the affect this new [...]

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Forest Service Planning Rule Released

February 11, 2011

Citizens for Balanced Use Forest Service Planning Rule Released      The new Forest Service Planning Rule has just been released. I was going through it a bit and came across the following statement under 219.62   Decision memo. A concise written record of the responsible official’s decision to implement an action that is categorically [...]

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Cooke City Avalanche Workshop

February 7, 2011

Cooke City Avalanche Workshop Available Items Lecture Sat, Feb 12th,12:00p-4:30pm Field Day Sun, Feb 13th, 9am-3pm Location Cooke City Fire Hall The Friends of the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center in cooperation with Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center will offer an Avalanche Awareness Workshop with lectures and a field session to be held in Cooke City, [...]

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Radical enviro’s file suit to close snowmobiling in California

January 26, 2011

Radical Enviro’s attack family recreation CBU opinion; The press release below is another example of radical enviro’s attacking multiple use on public lands with lies and deceit, and another case of abuse of the Equal Access to Justice Act. Snowmobile Plan Challenged to Protect Wildlife, Quiet Recreation SACRAMENTO, Calif.–- Snowlands Network, Winter Wildlands Alliance and the Center [...]

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Trail runners and bear conflict issues?

January 24, 2011

More trail runners means more contact between humans, bears  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s grizzly bear recovery coordinator said trail runners are coming up on photographers as the backcountry group most likely to get badly hurt in an animal encounter. “I don’t think that running in bear habitat is a risk to bear habitat [...]

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Wolf onslaught increasing across Montana

January 18, 2011

Wolves attack cattle, kill sheep in central Mont. State and federal authorities have confirmed that gray wolves recently attacked and injured two calves on a Fergus County ranch while wolves killed more than two dozen sheep on two ranches south of Ulm. USDA Wildlife Services state director John Steuber tells the Great Falls Tribune that [...]

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FWP budgets broke after overspending on land purchases

January 18, 2011

New holdings stretch FWP’s budgets for weed control, sanitation, staffing thin  After acquisition In the past six years, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has used $90 million from a variety of new and traditional sources and married it with landowner donations to acquire about 232,000 acres for state parks, wildlife management areas and fishing access [...]

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New Gallatin District Ranger named

January 6, 2011

Lisa Stoeffler is named the new District Ranger Lisa Stoeffler the acting district ranger, was named the new Bozeman District Ranger, replacing Jose Castro who went to Jackson Hole.   CBU has worked with Lisa on projects, and look forward to working with here in the future to promote multiple use recreation, and forest management issues in the [...]

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Enviro group looks to restrict more public lands

December 30, 2010

Environmental group proposes protections for Absaroka-Beartooth Front CBU opinion; The term” greater protections” is a feel good term used by GYC that  means, close and restrict more multiple use lands. These lands are  protected under  NEPA (National Environmental Protection Act) policy. GYC claims to be for hunting and fishing, but they have not proven themselves as being true advocates of [...]

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Enviro’s threaten lawsuit to allow wolves in lower 48

December 21, 2010

Group pushes for nationwide wolf restoration CBU opinion; Here is another example of that will never happen in my backyard. The Enviro’s are pushing to insert wolves nation wide as another tool to insert management, and political control over public and even some private lands. Will the enviro’s pay for wolf predations in Kentucky if a 6 figure race [...]

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