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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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Multiple Use Land area excluded from closure area for now

April 27, 2011

30,000 acres in Helena National Forest dropped from conservation plan Almost 30,000 acres in the Helena National Forest have been dropped from a proposal that conservationists hope will better protect 300,000 acres in the Rocky Mountains. The move aims to satisfy Lincoln residents who say they didn’t know land in the Lincoln Ranger District was [...]

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Enviro’s trying to halt any energy expansion in Mont.

April 18, 2011

Montana judge allows Exxon test module to proceed, stops construction of big-rig turnouts District Judge Ray Dayton of Deer Lodge County has granted in part a request for a temporary restraining order to stop work on the Kearl Module Transportation Project in Montana. The ruling, filed in Missoula County District Court Monday morning, prohibits any [...]

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Enviro’s threaten to remove all human activity from Arizona forest

December 23, 2010

Squirrels versus Scopes…the war over Mount Graham continues CBU opinion; While this story is far from Montana, you can see the Center of Biological Diversity is threatening to close and try to remove all human activity from Mt Graham. This would remove the telescopes, church camp, and residences. The claim of global warming is causing declining [...]

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News from Michigan

December 9, 2010

Forest service ponders closing some forest to hunters, snowmobilers CBU opinion; While this issue is over a thousand miles away and will most likely not effect most of us personally here in the west, it may set a country wide precedent that could affect all multiple use on public lands in the future.  Self proclaimed hunting-environmental organizations, such as the National [...]

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Sen. Tester to chair CSC

November 30, 2010

Tester to chair Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus CBU opinion; Senator Tester is not a good choice to chair the CSC. Tester has consistently shown he takes positions against multiple use access for, family recreation, the elderly and the physically challenged with the introduction of the S1470 Wilderness bill, and promising the Montana Wilderness Association, during his senate election campaign, to [...]

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