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Blackfoot Travel Plan comment update

November 11, 2010

Blackfoot comments The Forest Service has published a notice of intent (NOI) to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Blackfoot Travel Plan project in the Helena National Forest. The Blackfoot Travel Plan area includes the Lincoln area which has many great OHV and 4×4 opportunities. The Forest Service has included a starting proposal with [...]

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Enviro’s file to block equipment shipments

November 6, 2010

Idaho Court Punts on Oil Shipments CBU opinion; This is another example of the environmental agenda out to destroy any kind of natural resource extraction, and any accompanying processing in the United States. Resulting in damaging local economies, at the expense of fraudulent issues, followed by frivolous lawsuits exploiting the Equal Access to Justice Act, and taking millions [...]

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Local people concerned with Governors actions.

November 6, 2010

Governor closes off Hope Creek property, citing vandalism People no longer can freely recreate as they once did on 670 acres up Mullan Pass that’s now owned by Gov. Brian Schweitzer, but they can drive past the property on a U.S. Forest Service Road upgraded this year with about $330,000 in federal stimulus funds. Shortly [...]

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Enviro’s attack responsible snowmobile use on forest lands

September 22, 2010

Groups want feds to manage snowmobiles CBU opinion: This is another attack of enviromental groups out to take away multiple use lands open to the public, and manage them as de-facto wilderness. While wilderness areas go unutilized and unused for many non-motorized  recreational users. On national forests, a lack of requirements harms skiers and other winter users, they [...]

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Seasonal restriction lifted on boats in Upper Missouri

September 18, 2010

BLM Lifts Seasonal Motorized Restrictions on Upper Missouri River The Bureau of Land Management’s Lewistown Field Office (BLM) would like to remind recreationists that the seasonal motorized watercraft travel restrictions on the wild and scenic segments of the Upper Missouri National Wild and Scenic River will run through Wednesday, September 15 this year.\ On September [...]

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CMR Refuge planning proposals coming up

September 14, 2010

Proposal calls for more prescribed fires in C.M. Russell Refuge CBU will be looking into this closer and will comment. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to restore the relationship between wildfire and grazing on the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge under a new management plan “It’s basically going back and determining what [...]

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Enviro’s attack snowmobile use on B-D forest

September 11, 2010

Forest plan for Mont. snowmobiles draws lawsuit Three environmental groups have filed a federal lawsuit contesting a U.S. Forest Service plan allowing snowmobiles to use more than two million acres of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest in western Montana. Montanans for Quiet Recreation, Wildlands CPR, and Friends of the Bitterroot filed the lawsuit this week in [...]

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CMR draft plan open for public comment

September 9, 2010

 Comprehensive Conservation Planning CBU comment. It is important for the public to comment to maintain historic recreational, agriculture,and natural resource management in these areas. The CCP for Charles M. Russell NWR is a 15-year plan that will address habitat conservation and wildlife-dependent recreational uses. The staff at Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge is embarking on [...]

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CMR working group to meet

August 24, 2010

CMR Stakeholder Group Meeting  The begining session for the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge (CMR) and surrounding communities stakeholder working group will be held on August 30th, 2010  from 10:00 am to 3 p.m. at the Petroleum County Courthouse Basement (302 East Main, Winnett, Mt.) This meeting will initiate discussions on operating principles, purpose, structure, [...]

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Private land access encouraged by USDA ??

July 8, 2010

New Effort To Make Private Land Access Easier CBU opinion. Their has been a systematic closure of public lands access in the past approximate 30 years. CBU believes in public lands access, but also in private property rights. CBU is concerned as to the direction of this new government sponsored effort for private land access while more public lands are [...]

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