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Fishing Threatened By Possible Obama Executive Order

March 9, 2010

Culled out
The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.
This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is “fluid” and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn’t issued its [...]

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Equal Access to Justice Act Hot Topic Update

March 5, 2010

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Business Leaders Applaud Effort To Require Disclosure of Taxpayer Subsidies to Lawyers Who Sue Government

Bipartisan Legislation Introduced in Congress Yesterday “A Small But Important Step Toward Long-Overdue Legal Reform”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 4, 2010) — Wealthy activist groups that sue the government and then force taxpayers to pick up [...]

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Sage Grouse Not To Be Listed

March 5, 2010

Energy groups relieved sage grouse won’t be listed
 An Interior Department announcement Friday that it won’t list sage grouse as an endangered or threatened species opens the way for continued development of the West’s wind energy and oil and gas industries.
Those industries will still face scrutiny in sage grouse habitat but much less so than if [...]

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Ag Secretary to be in Montana Sat. discussing Tester Wilderness Bill

March 4, 2010

Tester Bill discussion in Deerlodge for the public.
 Sen. Jon Tester says U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will be in Deerlodge Saturday May 6, 2010 at 10:00 am at the Powell County Community Center to discuss the Tester S-1470 Forest Jobs  Restoration Act/ Wilderness Bill.
Public input is welcome
Location of the Community Center is at 416 Cottonwood [...]

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Rehberg introduces legislation to give Montana a voice in our backyard.

March 4, 2010

Bill would limit national monuments in Montana
 Montana’s congressman has introduced a bill that would require congressional approval before the president could create any more national monuments within the state.
The bill by Republican Denny Rehberg was introduced in the U.S. House Thursday. It was prompted by a leaked Department of Interior memo that listed 14 sites in nine states [...]

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Update: On Sage Grouse Status

February 26, 2010

Judge grants weeklong extension on sage grouse finding
 A judge in Boise, Idaho, has extended the deadline for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to submit an endangered species finding for the greater sage grouse.
The deadline had been Friday. Attorneys for Fish and Wildlife requested a one-week extension after agency Director Sam Hamilton died last weekend.
To [...]

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Many Montanan’s Scrutinize Tester’s Wilderness Bill More Closely

February 22, 2010

CBU comment: CBU was asked to support the Beaverhead-Deerlodge Partnership.  Because our comments were not seriously considered, CBU could not support the so-called partnership. Now, our comments and concerns are now being voiced by others too. With Tester’s Forest bill, CBU was not invited to offer input and neither were many other important parties that would be affected by this bill.  Now the supporters of the bill have [...]

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Multiple Use lands under threat from potential sage grouse status

February 22, 2010

Much at stake as decision nears on endangered status of sage grouse
A lot of Westerners are watching whether the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is about to pursue Endan-gered Species Act protection for the greater sage grouse.
A finding is expected by week’s end and the oil and gas, livestock and wind energy industries – to [...]

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Litigation filed on Custer forest travel plan against Multiple Use

February 20, 2010

Suit seeks to scale back offroad use in Pryors
Conservationists and backcountry horse riders are seeking to block motorized vehicle use in much of southern Montana’s Pryor Mountains, a popular destination for off-road vehicle users.
A lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Missoula challenges the U.S. Forest Service travel plan for the 125-square mile mountain range [...]

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Firearms allowed in US national parks starting Feruary 22, 2010

February 20, 2010

New law allows loaded guns in US national parks
Loaded guns will be allowed in Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon and other national parks under a new law that takes effect Monday.
The law lets licensed gun owners bring firearms into national parks and wildlife refuges as long as they are allowed by state law. It comes over [...]

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