By Myers Reece - January 14, 2019 - Originally published in the Flathead Beacon. Roughly 2,000 people packed into the state capitol in Helena on Jan. 11 for a raucous rally in support of public lands, during which throngs of residents from diverse backgrounds across Montana held up signs, chanted and made their voices heard both figuratively and literally. The event was the third in a series of rallies held every two years, beginning in 2015. The 2017 gathering was a similarly boisterous ...

By Ryan Busse, Maggie Carr, Shane Doyle and Mary Hollow - January 8, 2018 - Originally published in the Billings Gazette. We invite you to join us at noon on Friday in the Capitol Rotunda in Helena for the Rally for Public Lands. Montanans from across our great state will come together at the rally to celebrate our public lands and the outdoor way of life those lands make possible. Public lands unify Montanans by allowing us to live the outdoor lives we love. They allow people of ...

News for Immediate ReleaseJan. 7, 2019Contact: Katie McKalip, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org   Increased logging and fuels reduction prescribed in executive order could reduce wildfire but increase disturbance in big game habitat, fisheries   WASHINGTON – Millions of acres of public lands big game habitat and fisheries overseen by the Interior and Agriculture departments will be subject to vaguely defined management practices intended to minimize wildfire under an executive ...

January 5th, 2019 Sharon RoseRegion 2 MTFWP Comment Coordinator3201 Spurgin RoadMissoula, Montana 59804shrose@mt.gov   To Ms. Sharon Rose:   The Montana Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers highly encourages the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks to accept the public hunting access component of a conservation easement on the Buxbaum-Boulder Creek Ranch.We are thrilled that this project would secure significant permanent public hunting access on and through the property in a ...

January 4, 2019. Originally published in theHelena Independent Record Feedback on Wolverine Creek Road changes during the 2018 hunting season and game warden’s enforcement update are just two of the items on the agenda when the Beaverhead Recreation Working Group meets Jan. 9 at 7 p.m. in Dillon. The meeting will be held at the Montana Department of Natural Resources conference room, 840 North Montana St. Other agenda items include: • A review of material from previous ...