Legislation

Citizens for Balanced Use S1470 is now S268      Senator Tester has returned with his wilderness bill. formally S1470  Under the new number of S268, Senator Tester is continuing to pay back his environmental friends with another 1,035,307 acres of proposed wilderness and restricted land located mostly in the Beaverhead Deerlodge National Forest.   His new bill [...]

H.B. 309 CBU believes this bill will clarify private property of man made ditches for agriculture and does nothing to adversely affect the current Stream Access law.  Several years ago CBU testified and were able to add the 2 most important amendments to the original Stream Access bill. 1. Of the over 1200 stream access points across the state. [...]

Press Release Subcommittee Chairman John Fleming Questions Superfluous Spending and Increased Land Acquisition in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service FY 2012 Budget Request     WASHINGTON, D.C., March 2, 2011 - Today, the House Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs held an oversight hearing on the FY 2012 budget request for the U.S. [...]

Share // Share27   Press Release Republicans Highlight Job Loss, Economic Impacts of Administration’s Wild Lands Order     WASHINGTON, D.C., March 1, 2011 – Today at a Natural Resources Committee hearing, Republican Members soundly rejected the Obama Administration’s new “Wild Lands” order. This Secretarial Order, issued without public consultation, attempts to designate Wilderness areas without [...]