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Comment for Repair of Pryors Road ends March 15, 2010

March 2, 2010

Forest studies Crooked Creek Plan
Climbing along the eastern shoulder of Big Pryor Mountain, Crooked Creek Road has been scorched by fire and washed out by rain.
Under an environmental assessment now under review, the Beartooth Ranger District is proposing to repair about five miles of the road that has been the most heavily damaged.
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Forest Service Considers Opening Up Area To Snowmobiling

February 26, 2010

Forest Service considers opening elk closure; studying new migration
The Sawtooth National Forest is considering reopening an area north of Fairfield to snowmobiles and other motorized vehicles, as elk the agency intended to protect seem to be moving on.
For two decades, the area along the Upper South Fork of the Boise River from Couch Summit to [...]

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BLM accepting comment on creating more public access

February 21, 2010

BLM Invites Public Comment on the Johnston Coulee Access Enhancement Proposal
 The BLM will host an open-house on Wednesday, March. 3, to invite public comment on the Johnston Coulee Access Enhancement Proposal.

 The open house will be at the Malta Field Office, 501 2nd Street East, Malta, Montana, and will last from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m.

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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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Missouri River Stewards Intervene Against Enviro Lawsuit

January 25, 2010

Missouri River Stewards Intervene
 CBU opinion: CBU is concerned as to the litigation filed against the BLM by the environmental groups. This litigation is a threat to private property rights, multiple use recreation, grazing, natural resource management and extraction, giving special interests power over the public and private lands management, and the cost of litigation to the taxpayers. click [...]

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FWP considers new restrictions.

January 24, 2010

Antler-hunting rules mulled
People no longer will be able to ride horses or motorized vehicles into Montana’s wildlife management areas to look for shed antlers for the first three days the areas are open to the public, under a proposal given tentative approval by the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission.
FWP commissioners are concerned that the rush to [...]

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Badger Two Medicine travel plan update.

January 20, 2010

Judge Haddon upholds Badger-Two Medicine travel plan closures
In the first of many rounds to come, a federal judge in Great Falls heard arguments on January 13, 2010 and has denied a motion for a preliminary injunction enjoining the Forest service from closing multiple use recreation in the Badger-Two Medicine (B2M) region.
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CFBU legal assists members on Badger Two Medcine

January 13, 2010

Judge Haddon hearing in Great Falls on Jan. 13, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at the Missouri River Courthouse. 
With 98% closure of summer & winter motorized use, CFBU is assisting its friends & members on the B2M on halting the implementation of the B2M travel plan.
B2M Order Setting Hearing For Jan. 13

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