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Kootenai forest DEIS Land management comments due April 5

January 21, 2012

Kootenai National Forest DEIS  The Kootenai National Forest released the DEIS and Draft Revised Land Management Plan on January 6, 2012. This starts the 90 day comment period. All comments on this action will be due on April 5th, 2012.Copies of the DEIS and associated information on this action can be found at: http://www.fs.fed.us/kipz It [...]

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Idaho Panhandle forest DEIS comments due by April 5th

January 21, 2012

Idaho Panhandle National Forest DEIS  The Idaho Panhandle National Forest released the DEIS and Draft Revised Land Management Plan on January 6, 2012. This starts the 90 day comment period. All comments on this action will be due on April 5th, 2012. Copies of the DEIS and associated information on this action can be found [...]

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Clearwater Forest ROD appeals due Feb 24th

January 21, 2012

Clearwater National Forest Record of Decision  The Clearwater National Forest released their Record of Decision on January 10th, 2012. A written Notice of Appeal must be postmarked or received within 45 days following the publication date of this decision. Appeals due by February 24th, 2012. Paper Appeals must be submitted to: USDA Forest Service, Northern [...]

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Bozeman Chronicle article on Gallatin Crest

January 10, 2012

The next steps for the Gallatin Crest Windy Pass in the Gallatin Range is a place of spectacular beauty. Trying to explain it, Roger Jenkins recently recalled the opening scene of “The Sound of Music,” when Julie Andrews twirls in a grassy mountain meadow singing “The Hills are Alive.” To read full story Click here

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Sage Grouse meetings to attend

January 10, 2012

Sage Grouse habitat is a tool used by federal land managers to restrict access for recreation, resource development, and ultimately the taking of private property rights. Land management agencies fueled by a takeover from well funded environmental groups are portraying these actions as partnerships and cooperative agreements when in fact these are planned and predetermined [...]

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Idaho & Montana Forest Service Management plan drafts

January 10, 2012

Idaho Panhandle and Kootenai NF Management Plans  The Idaho Panhandle and Kootenai National Forests have just released their new draft forest management plan proposals. Alternative B has been selected for both forests as the preferred alternative. These 2 documents totally over 2000 pages are expected to be read and commented on within the next 90 [...]

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Sage grouse comments coming due

January 10, 2012

Sage Grouse  Date: December 22, 2011 Contacts: Craig Flentie, 406-538-1943 or Mary Apple, 406-896-5258   Bureau of Land Management Begins Scoping for Greater Sage-Grouse Planning Strategy As part of a national strategy to evaluate greater sage-grouse conservation measures in land use plans, the BLM Lewistown Field Office is asking the public to help identify issues [...]

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FWP Boating Restrictions on Clarks Fork, Blackfoot,& Bitteroot rivers

December 14, 2011

   CBU is working with the local citizens familer with these actions restricting boating on the rivers, stayed tuned to the CBU Latest News on how to help combat these closures. The PDF file is a large document containing several pertinent documents including the original proposal by the commission, the associated Environmental Assessment, The recommendation of the Department [...]

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Snowmobile road closure upheld for now

June 15, 2011

Lolo Pass Recreation to be Considered During Plan Revision Release CBU commentary: The original plan of presently closing this road to snowmobiling was met with strong resistance from CBU and its members including other groups and individuals from across the state. CBU will be  keeping an eye on this down the road to insure multiple use access to all [...]

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Plans to remove snowmobile connector road dwindle

June 7, 2011

Talk of plowing Beartooth fizzles for lack of funding The discussion of whether a six-mile stretch of the Beartooth Highway should be plowed in winter or left as a snowmobiling playground has fizzled less than a month after a meeting was held on the issue in Cooke City. Commissioners from Park counties in Montana and [...]

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