Montana Congressional Delegation’s Public Lands Bait-and-Switch

Selling federal land without safeguards didn’t work in the 1950s

Re “It shouldn’t be taboo to sell federal land” (July 9): I read the authors’ arguments with a sense of déjà vu. We went through this “sell off federal lands” debacle in the 1950s. Behind the scenes, the corporations wishing to buy up the lands made available wanted them for clear-cutting forested areas, strip mining, and unchecked oil drilling and pipelines. The track record of those companies on leased properties had shown devastating treatmen…

Proposed Bear-Baiting Ban In Wyoming Sparks Debate Over What’s Ethical In Bear Hunting

A coalition of animal welfare groups is backing a congressional bill to ban bear-baiting on federal land in Wyoming and other states, but some hunters argue it’s an ethical way to hunt bears.

LETTER: Kudos to Ciscomani for protecting public lands

To the Editor:

Montana congressional delegation’s public lands bait-and-switch

The Montana Congressional delegation has jeopardized our public lands and our future for your rich friends' profits.

Montana congressional delegation's public lands bait-and-switch

You can't take your bird dog hunting on lands being mined or filled with oil rigs, even if they are "public" lands.

Montana Congressional delegation’s public lands bait-and-switch

Montana Environmental Information Center Executive Director Anne Hedges and her bird dog, Indie. (Photo courtesy of MEIC) You can’t take your bird dog hunting on lands being mined or filled with oil rigs, even if they are “public” lands.  While Montanans were right to celebrate removing the sale of public lands from the recent Congressional budget bill, some may not know that our representatives still voted to put millions of acres of public lan…