Montana

  • Tribal Bison Slaughter Illegal?

    George Wuerthner

    Tribal members gutting a bison killed on Custer Gallatin National Forest land near Gardiner, Montana.  As of a week ago, as many as 1,139 bison have been slaughtered by tribal members. Yet the entire so-called tribal bison “hunt” may be illegal. Yet, no group, including those who profess to care about the bison, including the…

  • Pryor Mountains Horse Management Plan Revision Needs Support

    George Wuerthner

    Feral horses graze the Pryor Mountains. Photo George Wuerthner  The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is currently accepting comments on a proposed change in its wild horse management plan for the Pryor Mountains. The BLM needs positive encouragement to follow up on its proposed plan to reduce the Pryor Mountain horse herd to counter the…

  • Response to Governor Gianforte On Forest Management and Wildfire

    George Wuerthner

      Previously logged Plum Creek Timber Company lands which didn’t stop  36,ooo acre plus Jocko Lakes Fires. Photo George Wuerthner  Recently Governor Greg Gianforte praised forest management for limiting the spread of two fires near Helena. Gianforte suggested that active forest management (i.e., logging) helped firefighters to keep two blazes, the Grizzly Gulch and Mount…

  • Expand the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness

    George Wuerthner

      The Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness encompasses Montana’s highest peaks and some of the most extensive area above timberline in the lower 48 states. Photo George Wuerthner By Phil Knight and George Wuerthner, Gallatin Yellowstone Wilderness Alliance  www.gallatinyellowstonewilderness.org   It’s time to expand the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness in Montana and Wyoming. 300,000 acres could be added…

  • Climate Not Fuels Drive Large Blazes

    George Wuerthner

    Active forest management is viewed as a solution to large blazes, but fails to acknowledge that climate is driving wildfire. It is true that if you completely remove forests, you won’t get a forest fire. Photo George Wuerthner  Proponents of “active forest management” or logging as a means of reducing large wildfires are looking in…

  • Custer Gallatin NF Kirk Hill Project Another Boondoggle

    George Wuerthner

    The open canopy of this logging operation on Kirk will promote fire spread by enhancing wind penetration. Photo George Wuerthner    I recently visited the Kirk Hill area in the Gallatin Range on the Custer Gallatin NF (CGNF) south of Bozeman. The CGNF had “thinned” the site as a fire prevention measure. What the Kirk…

  • Montana’s Bitterroot Front Project More FS Snake Oil

    George Wuerthner

    The Bitterroot Mountains rise up above the Bitterroot Valley in western Montana. Photo George Wuerthner  Montana’s Bitterroot National Forest is proposing the Bitterroot Front Project (BFP), encompassing 144,000 acres. This action will impact an area more than four times the size of the 34,000-acre Rattlesnake Wilderness north of Missoula. The Bitterroot Front Project will impact…

  • A Response to NYT Keeping Cattle On The Move and Carbon In The Soil

    George Wuerthner

      Concentration of cattle and moving them frequently has been proposed as a means of storing carbon in soils. Like other claims that seem to be too good to be true, such assertions fail to do a full accounting of the carbon cycle. Photo George Wuerthner  A recent New York Times article has latched on…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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