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America’s Great Outdoors public comment section

June 4, 2010

CBU opinion: It is important that you and your friends and family express comments on your ideas of public, private lands, and the other ideas presented in this website. So that you have a VOICE!!  Submit Your Ideas & Join the Conversation  About America’s Great Outdoors Share Your Story About the place you love Get Outdoors Unplug and reconnect [...]

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Rehbergs comments on AGOI

May 29, 2010

Rehberg Statement on “America’s Great Outdoors Initiative” Listening Sessions in Montana 05/26/10 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Montana’s Congressman, Denny Rehberg, today released the following statement in response to an announcement of listening sessions held by staff from the Departments of Agriculture and Interior and the White House Council on Environmental Quality to discuss the President’s mysterious [...]

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Rehberg Fights For Transparency of EAJA

May 26, 2010

jed.link@mail.house.gov March 09, 2010 CONTACT: Jed Link, 202-225-3211 Rehberg Fights for Lawsuit Transparency, Sponsors Open Equal Access to Justice Act WASHINGTON D.C. – Montana’s Congressman, Denny Rehberg, cosponsored the Open Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) of 2010, with bipartisan supporters from other Western states. The legislation reinstates oversight and transparency measures for taxpayer payments made [...]

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Fees For Public Lands Access Stalled

May 26, 2010

Hearing on stopping fees on forest lands stalled The Western Slope No-Fee Coalition, which fights for free access to public lands, is encouraging folks to contact U.S. senators to urge a hearing on a bill that would stop federal agencies from charging fees to access public lands where no services are offered. According to a coalition e-mail, [...]

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Enviro groups exploiting U.S. taxpayer

May 25, 2010

Endangered Species Act used to take money from the taxpayers. The following article in Range magazine is another step in showing the millions of dollars being paid to enviro groups through loopholes and exploitation of the Equal Access to Justice Act in our government system. To read Range magazine article click “The Green Scam” To read the previous Equal Access [...]

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Questionable ethics involving enviro’s in land control proposals

May 15, 2010

 Talks about land protection get criticism Recently released documents show the Obama administration was getting ideas from environmental groups about setting aside millions of acres in the West, drawing the ire of land users who said discussions were being developed behind their back. In the documents — most of which are e-mail messages — the [...]

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House votes on National Monument bill

May 7, 2010

House Committee Votes on National Monument Bill Wednesday morning the House Natural Resources Committee marked up a number of bills including HR 1254.  According to language within the bill, HR 1254 would “Direct the Secretary of the Interior to transmit to the House of Representatives certain information relating to the Secretary’s Treasured Landscape Initiative, potential designation [...]

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Barrett Crafting Legislation To Management of Diseased Wildlife

May 7, 2010

As brucellosis spreads in elk, state senator see larger role for livestock department A state senator says Montana isn’t doing enough to prevent the spread of brucellosis and is crafting legislation to give the state Department of Livestock a bigger say in how disease-carrying wildlife is managed. “We have to do something,” said Sen. Debby [...]

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Enviros Against Domestic Energy Production.

May 7, 2010

Enviros sue BLM over plan  Five environmental groups sued Thursday to challenge a long-range U.S. Bureau of Land Management plan that has begun guiding oil and gas development over a vast area in south-central Wyoming. The groups say the BLM failed to protect undeveloped areas and didn’t sufficiently consider ozone pollution or climate change in [...]

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Clean Water Act Reintroduced

April 29, 2010

Clean Water Act overhaul introduced in House  On April 21, 2010 an attempt to expand federal authority over the waterways in the U.S. was reintroduced in the House of Representatives by Minnesota Democrat James Oberstar. The bill, “America’s Commitment to Clean Water Act,”or H.R. 5088, would change the 1972 Clean Water Act to allow the government [...]

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