Lame Duck Wilderness?

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I realize this should be in land use, but it will get more bang for the buck here!


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[FONT=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Dear Jim,

Quote from Arron Flint from Northern Ag. Broadcasting:


news-brief

Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) is hoping to pass his wilderness bill as a rider to a piece of legislation during the lame duck session of Congress.
As the AP reports:
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester says his compromise plan to both increase logging and expand wilderness area still has a chance to clear Congress this year.
The Democrat says he is looking for way to attach the legislation to another bill sometime during the lame duck session.
While the wilderness would be inevitable, you can bet that any logging would be blocked by either US District Judge Don Molloy (L-Missoula), or, if he loses the coin toss, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will take their turn shooting it down.



Even after the mandate from the voters to reduce taxes and stop closing access to multiple use recreation the good Senator Tester still pushes his wilderness bill. Over 70% of Montanans oppose more wilderness designation but this is a case of Washington Tester not listening to the people. Make a difference today, tomorrow, and the next 30 days by calling Senator Tester everyday if necessary to stop this destructive legislation. Tell him we don't need no more stinking wilderness. Take the time to call every single one of his offices over the next 10 days.

Billings
Granite Tower
222 N 32nd Street, Suite 102
Billings, MT 59101
Phone: (406) 252-0550
Fax: (406) 252-7768
Bozeman
Avant Courier Building
1 E Main Street, Suite 202
Bozeman, MT 59715
Phone: (406) 586-4450
Fax: (406) 586-7647
Butte
Silver Bow Center
125 W Granite, Suite 200
Butte, MT 59701
Phone: (406) 723-3277
Fax: (406) 782-4717
Glendive
122 W Towne
Glendive, MT 59330
Phone: (406) 365-2391
Fax: (406) 365-8836

Great Falls
119 1st Avenue N, Suite 102
Great Falls, MT 59401
Phone: (406) 452-9585
Fax: (406) 452-9586
Helena
Capital One Center
208 N Montana Avenue, Suite 202
Helena, MT 59601
Phone: (406) 449-5401
Fax: (406) 449-5462
Kalispell
14 Third Street E, Suite 230
Kalispell, MT 59901
Phone: (406) 257-3360
Fax: (406) 257-3974
Missoula
130 W Front Street
Missoula, MT 59802
Phone: (406) 728-3003
Fax: (406) 728-2193
Washington, D.C.

724 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-2604
Phone: (202) 224-2644
Fax: (202) 224-8594

Senator Tester can be contacted by email at the following link. Put this out to your friends, neighbors and family.

Jon Tester
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Another alert.



Speaking of how much you are willing to pay. Notice the "must pass" spending bill part

This is how things happen and it is BS. Greenies will use lawsuits to their fullest extent, yet IGNORE the constitution to get their agenda passed.
Not enough of them (congress) lost their jobs in November-especially here in Wa state!!

sorry...LONG read




Citizens for Balanced Use
Tester's Lame Duck Wilderness
Dear Jim,

Senator Tester is taking full advantage of the Lame Duck session by attaching his wilderness bill to the Senate Omnibus Spending Bill. This is a Must Pass spending bill.

Even after his bill did not get approval from committee the Senator is slipping this bad legislation in during the dark of night and out of the public view.

As stated by Beaverhead County Commissioner Mike McGinley, this is nothing more than a payback to Tester's environmental east and west coast friends for financing 70% of his election campaign. The Senator is fully aware of the fact this bill violates the 1964 Wilderness Act and other federal laws yet he will shove this done our throats. Over 600,000 acres of new wilderness, mostly in the Beaverhead Deerlodge Forest.

Members and supporters of CBU must step up and stop this attack on Montana.

Letters to the editor/calls to radio and TV/calls to D.C. Senators

Senator Tester-202-224-2644 or 866-554-4403
Senator Baucus-202-224-2651 or 800-332-6106

CBU contacted Senator Coburn's office to ask his assistance to stop this bill but as I said this is must pass legislation. It is critical to put pressure on Senator Tester through the media and in the public view.

A list of line by line language in the bill which clearly shows this bill
violates both Federal law and our U.S. Constitution
is included below along with a legal analysis.

I understand this notice is long but it includes information you can use to help fight this bill and stop Senator Tester's wilderness land grab.
S1470 Bill analysis

The following is a summary of S1470, "Forest Jobs and Recreation Act" introduced by Montana Senator Jon Tester.

This piece of legislation is nothing more than a wilderness bill, crafted is secret meetings between the Montana Wilderness Association, Trout Unlimited, National Wildlife Federation, Sun Mountain Lumber and RY Lumber. The other stakeholders that use these areas were left out of the process including the local governments.

If this legislation is signed into law it will devastate the economies of numerous small communities in Montana.

There are three types of public land (National Forest) changes proposed in S1470: Wilderness (W), Recreation Areas (RA) and Stewardship projects. The W and RA areas can be viewed as one combined area with respect to restrictions, since the restrictions on Recreation Areas are very close to the proposed Wilderness. The combined W and RA areas amount to about 1 million acres. The Stewardship projects are for habitat restoration only and add up to a total of 100,000 acres over the 10 - 15 years allowed for completion. After the habitat restoration is complete there will be NO MORE activity in those areas. The one-shot logging projects will be done...forever. The result will be that in the long run, when the designations and treatments resulting from this bill are complete, Montana will have 1.1 million acres of new designated and de-facto wilderness. There is NO general multiple use specified. This is in violation of the Multiple-Use Sustained Yield Act. The result of this bill would be to take the public land out of productive commercial use.

This is a land lock-up bill, with nothing substantial given to the public in exchange for a million acres of wilderness.

Neither Montana nor the Nation needs any more wilderness. Currently there are 107 million acres of designated wilderness including BLM lands out of a total of 190 million acres of National Forest land. That's over 50%. Just because the Montana Wilderness Association says we haven't had any Wilderness designations in 25 years does not mean we need more. Their arguments as to the need for this wilderness does not carry any scientific weight.





SPECIFIC PROBLEMS AND CONCERNS RE S1470 PROVIDING REASONS TO OPPOSE THE BILL

References from S1470 by page no.

p. 4 The stewardship projects are for habitat restoration only; no goal of multiple-use, sustainable forestry (i.e. growing trees for future harvest).

p. 7 "Access road" is defined as a temporarily road that must be obliterated before completion of the project.

p. 9 Restoration projects may include removal of access roads to "State, tribal, or private land"

p. 15 Proceeds from the sale of products of the stewardship projects must be reinvested only in other restoration projects in stewardship areas of forest. (except B-D, see pg 40)

p. 15 The stewardship contracts are not to EXCEED 10 years. They could be less.

p. 15 Stewardship party is to "offset the value of goods". There is no explanation of what that means.

p. 17 "Habitat connectivity" is an undefined term specified as a criterion for prioritizing projects. Considering its implied meaning, this is a highly subjective measure.

p. 17 "Road density" (e.g. 1.5 mi/sq mi) is specified as the main criterion for prioritizing activities. "Road density" is highly subject to manipulation and should not be used.

p. 17 "Reduction in road density (that) would benefit affected wildlife" is another highly subjective, unscientific measure specified to be used to determine activities.

p. 19 The Secretary MAY develop trails. This is not required and prohibited in Protection Areas. (see pg 63)

p. 20 In the stewardship and restoration areas NO new permanent roads are allowed

p. 21 What is the definition of "uncharacteristic" wildfires or insect infestations? Certain wildfires and certain insect infestations will be allowed, at the whim of the forest manager(s).

p. 21 Prescribed fires are to "mimic" natural fires. Could that mean a "let-burn" policy?

p. 22 Revenue can only be used for fish and wildlife habitat restoration. No general, unrestricted economic benefit from these contracts.

p. 24 Three community projects are named (Blackfoot Challenge, Blackfoot Community Project and Seeley Lake Coordinated Forest Management Project) and committee appointments are specified. These projects are not defined, and the committee appointments leave out local government.

p. 26 The stewardship projects can be appealed by anyone; meaning environmental groups could appeal and stop any given project. This makes the stewardship portion of the Act uncertain as to whether it will ever be accomplished.

p. 27 By allowing only one EIS and NO additional analyses prior to implementation of the project the Data Quality Act is violated. In other words, no one is allowed to challenge the "science" presented in the EIS.

p. 28 Changes in the EIS can be made in consultation with collaborative groups (environmental groups) only AFTER the project is underway.

Implications of the last two items: A project could be started with an EIS that is acceptable to all concerned, then easily changed through "consultation" with, for example, the Montana Wilderness Association, behind closed doors.

p. 30 All consultation is with resource advisory committees (RAC) or local collaborative groups. Local government coordination, as required by NEPA, the FLPMA and NFMA are not included. This will cause a violation of these federal laws.

p. 30 "Ecological restoration" projects qualify as stewardship projects. To understand what that means, one should read a document entitled "Citizens Call for Ecological Forest Restoration" ("Call"), produced and signed by 120 environmental groups. It is a 21 page detailed blueprint for "ecological restoration" and has the goal of ZERO commercial activities on the National Forests. This document has all of the elements contained in S1470, including what a "job" means and definition of "training". Jobs included in this kind of project include only those related to road decommissioning and forest restoration. These are temporary jobs, as the Call document strongly urges a passive approach to forest management...the sooner you can get out of the forest and not touch it again, the better.

p. 31 Partnerships are to be established with non profit youth groups to do these projects.

p. 37 Impacts of climate change are to be included in the analysis of projects

p. 40 All funds generated from projects are to be spent on the forest that the project originates but an exception has been inserted which states that any funds generated from a landscape-scale restoration project completed in the Beaverhead Deerlodge "may be expended by the Secretary concerned on a landscape-scale restoration project carried out in any other administrative unit of a National Forest". Monies generated from projects in the Beaverhead Deerlodge are not required to be spent on the forest that produced the revenue. This is a clear inequity in this legislation.

p. 41 The termination of the Secretary's authority under this bill expires after 15 years, meaning that the Wilderness and Recreation Areas are designated forever, with no continuing oversight under this bill.

p. 41 All landscape restoration projects (stewardship portions) of this bill expire in 15 years, leaving the permanent wilderness intact.

p. 53 "adequate access to the private property to ensure the reasonable use and enjoyment of the property by the owner." "reasonable use" is up to the agency and "enjoyment of the property by the owner" could mean "adequate access" is limited to the owner only. Implies there will be private property within the boundaries of some of the wilderness areas and this should disqualify the area from wilderness consideration.

p. 54 In Wilderness, grazing will only be permitted if it was established in a given area before Sept. 3, 1964 per section 4(d)(4) of the Wilderness Act (16 17 U.S.C. 1133(d)(4)), subject to additional, unknown regulations adopted subsequent to the Wilderness Act.

p 54 House Report 101-405 (Feb. 21, 1990) "provide(s) for the designation of certain public lands as wilderness in the State of Arizona"; and "Subject to the conditions and policies outlined in this report, the general rule of thumb on grazing management in wilderness should be that activities or facilities established prior to the date of an area's designation as wilderness should be allowed to remain in place and may be replaced when necessary for the permittee to properly administer the grazing program." Does this report constitute a law or regulation that applies to Montana?

p. 56-57 Outfitter & guide permits in existence at the time of this Act will be the only ones allowed in Wilderness. No new outfitter / guide permits.

p. 63 No timber harvests in Lost Creek Protection Area. No construction of developed campgrounds, roads or trails in Protection Area.

p. 65 - Recreation areas: activities including mining and timber harvest subject to review, no off-road travel, motorized use is subject to review under forest plan or travel plan revision.

p. 64, p. 68, p. 71, p. 73 Recreation areas: "motorized travel shall be permitted within the National Recreation Area only on approved, designated trails and routes." All snowmobiles would be restricted from use off designated trails and routes.

p. 78 The Secretary shall determine if firewood can be collected or if chain saws are permitted in "Special Use Areas" after consultation with the special interest groups that make up the Resource Advisory Committee. This process removes the public from the decision making process and violates several federal laws.

 

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p. 78 The Secretary shall determine if firewood can be collected or if chain saws are permitted in "Special Use Areas" after consultation with the special interest groups that make up the Resource Advisory Committee. This process removes the public from the decision making process and violates several federal laws.




Legal Analysis

Tester's wilderness bill violates the following Acts, Laws and the U.S. Constitution



National Environmental Policy Act

National Forest Management Act

Multiple Use Sustained Yield Act

Endangered Species Act

Clean Water Act

Clean Air Act

Data Quality Act

Council on Environmental Quality regulations

Administrative Procedure Act

Federal Advisory Committee Act

Separation of Powers requirements of the U.S. Constitution

Fifth Amendment to the U.S Constitution

Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution



LEGAL DEFECTS IN S1470

The Bill surreptitiously alters the Coordination requirements of the Forest Management Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.



To the detriment of every county, city, and local district of government in Montana, this Bill provides the federal agencies with a means to evade and avoid the requirements in the Forest Management Act and the National Environmental Policy Act that the agencies "coordinate" with local government.



A. The National Forest Management Act.



The National Forest Management Act mandates that the Secretary of Agriculture "Shall develop, maintain, and, as appropriate, revise land and resource management plans for units of the National Forest System, coordinated with the land and resource management planning processes of State and local governments and other Federal agencies."



To local governments this mandated coordination is critical. In 1982, the first rules issued by the Secretary of Agriculture after the statutory mandate was created, the Secretary directed Forest Service line officers to assure that forest service personnel "coordinate" federal planning efforts with local governments. 36 C.F.R. Section 219.7 provides:

"The responsible line officer shall coordinate regional and

Forest planning with the equivalent and related planning efforts

Of other Federal agencies, State and local governments and the

Indian tribes."



The Secretary then defines what he means by "coordinate" by requiring the following actions:

1. give early notice of preparation of federal plan;

2. review plans and policies of local government, the review to include:

a. consider objectives of local government

b. assess interrelation of impacts between local and federal plans and policies

c. determine how Forest should deal with the impacts

d. consider alternatives for resolution of conflicts between local policies and federal

e. meet with local government at beginning of planning to develop protocol for coordination

f. seek input from locals to resolve conflicts

g. monitoring and evaluation to consider impacts



This level of coordination is critical to local governments which are responsible for the economic stability of public health and safety of its constituents.



Senator Tester's Bill provides an escape mechanism for the Forest line officers by requiring in section 102(a)(2) that as to stewardship and restoration projects on a "land-scape scale", the Secretary shall coordinate with "applicable advisory committees or local collaborative groups". There is no mention in S 1470 of the duty to coordinate with local government.



So, does this amount to a repeal of the National Forest Management Act's requirement of coordination? The answer to the question is debatable. It is a valid argument to say that under S 1470 the Secretary does not have to coordinate with local government as to any "landscape-scale restoration projects" because S 1470 specifically requires coordination only with non-governmental committees.



Even those who would argue that S 1470 does not strictly repeal the coordination requirements of the Forest Management Act, must admit that it provides "weasel room" for line officers to evade and avoid the coordination requirements.



The impact of this provision of S 1470 strikes at the very heart of the protection to local government for which counties and special interest government districts have worked so hard for the past twenty years. Through coordination, local government has been able to hold the agencies at bay when trying to put down local ranchers and recreation users.



Whether intentionally, or accidentally, S 1470 strikes a potentially deadly blow to every local government associated with the national forests subject to this Bill.

 

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This is a blatant attack on the property rights of owners of private property engulfed by wilderness decided on by select special interest groups working with the Senator behind closed doors, outside the public scrutiny.



V. Senator Tester's Wilderness Bill Evades the National Environmental Policy Act and the Coordination Requirements of the National Forest Management Act by Establishing Special Use Areas in Sections 205-210



The Bill establishes special protective areas and recreation areas in sections 205 through 210, without any public input, meaningful or otherwise, in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act.



Only a very select group of forest users were allowed to participate in the drafting of this Bill. Neither the groups involved in the drafting, nor the Senator himself, will attend public meetings to discuss the contents of the Bill and answer questions regarding its drafting and its purposes.



The policy which Congress itself established in the National Environmental Policy Act is violated by this Bill. In NEPA, Congress declared it to be in the national interest to involve the public through meaningful participation in reviewing and analyzing proposals for land use projects. This Bill evades that policy completely by arbitrarily designating special interest areas, the boundaries thereof, and the rules for administration thereof.



Senator Tester, his staff, and his self appointed and designated drafting organizations have refused to meet with multiple use organizations, grazing organizations and all but a very limited representation of timber and logging interests to even discuss the contents of this Bill.



Public claims that this Bill is supported by and was drafted by a great cross section of users of the forest lands are simply not accurate. Local governments impacted by the special area designations have been ignored and kept outside the circle of drafters. Montana elected officials including commissioners, mayors, representatives and senators have been ignored and kept outside the circle of drafters. This is a special interest bill, designed to cater to and serve the whims of a very select group of organizations.



Not only is the lawful policy of the National Environmental Policy Act violated by the Bill, so is the statutory mandate that land use decisions affecting local government be coordinated with those units of local government. The counties and cities adversely impacted by the Bill's designations and land use restrictions have been ignored in the drafting of the Bill.



In short, this Bill represents a statement that Congress can ignore policy and law which it has created. This Bill puts Congress itself above the executive department and above the people of the United States by violating statutes that bind the public, that bind local governments, that bind private business.



VI. Senator Tester's Wilderness Bill, S. 1470 violates the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution By Restricting Access of Public Safety and Health Emergency Services through Memoranda of Understanding



Section 202 (l) provides that within a year after enactment, the Secretary shall offer a memorandum of understanding with local law enforcement, medical responders and search and rescue organizations of "each political subdivision of the State" affected by the wilderness designations "to ensure" authorization for entry into the wilderness areas.



The tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees to local jurisdictions the authority to exercise the police powers related to public safety and health, without restriction by the federal government. There is no provision in the Constitution which allows the federal government, Congress or otherwise, to restrict access of law enforcement authorities to carry out their duties to protect the public health and safety.



For Congress to assert an authority to restrict access by the terms of this wilderness bill, and subsequent memoranda of understanding, is a clear violation of the Tenth Amendment.



The Congress oversteps its constitutional bounds by ignoring local authorities in making sweeping land use designations which may hamper provision of local police services to the citizens of a state. The overreaching is not cured by offering to enter into memoranda of understanding, which can be controlled by the Secretary and his line officers, to set forth the parameters which are already set by the Tenth Amendment.

 

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The BS these guys will attach to spending bills





Wolf Management
« on: Yesterday at 10:17:53 PM »
We are fighting an amendment that amounts to a major federal power grab. Baucus’ name is on the bill, but Tester’s office has been calling it their amendment as well. We are trying to kill the bill this week. It would provide for wolf hunting next year under the supervision of USFWS, but increases wolf minimums to over 500 wolves in each state, provides for automatic relisting, puts a bunch of state authority in the hands of the federal government, and only lasts for 5 years.

-Ryan

Subject: Your Right to Hunt and Fish and the new Federal Power Grab

Your Rights to Hunt and Fish are about to be lost in Congress. WE NEED YOUR HELP TODAY.

This week anti-hunting forces launched an assault on Congress this week. The Obama administration, Barbara Boxer (D) California, and John Tester (D) Montana are trying to pass one of the most harmful pieces of anti-hunting legislation in years. Anti-hunting groups and their friends in Congress added the language last Wednesday in a MUST-PASS appropriations bill to take away state management of wildlife. For the first time, this will allow anti-hunting radicals in San Francisco and New York to tell the people of YOUR STATE how to manage its wildlife. It is all being done in the name of allowing for management of wolves. DON’T BE FOOLED.

The governors of Idaho, Wyoming and Montana met with the Obama Administration last week to finalize negotiations intended to return wolves to state wildlife management. Instead, the Obama Administration told the governors they planned on passing a different bill. The bill is dangerous for two reasons: (1) it takes away key constitutional rights of state wildlife management; and (2) transfers the authority to the Obama Administration to dictate to the states how to manage their wildlife. The Governors immediately rejected the bill and thought the issue was dead. Instead, Obama tried to sneak his language onto the spending bill last Wednesday. We caught the language and immediately began working to counter their efforts. The bill will likely go to vote this week. WE MUST STOP THIS FEDERAL POWER GRAB IMMEDIATELY.

WE NEED YOUR HELP. We need YOU along with thousands of sportsmen from across the country to contact their members of Congress. Thousands of anti-hunters are calling and emailing their members of Congress-because they know that calling and emailing does work. I have spent the last several weeks in Washington, D.C. working with Senators Hatch (R) Utah, McCain (R) Arizona, Barrasso (R) Wyoming, Risch (R) Idaho and other members of Congress to kill the Obama legislation and instead pass a bill that would return wolves to state wildlife managers with no strings attached. Every sportsmen state has hundreds of thousands of hunters and fisherman. We outnumber the radicals and we have friends in Congress who need your help. WE CAN WIN THIS BATTLE BY WORKING TOGETHER. ALL IT TAKES IS 2 MINUTES OF YOUR TIME.

HOW YOU CAN HELP:
(1) Send an email to all of your members of Congress. It just takes 30 seconds. Visit the websitehttp://capwiz.com/biggameforever/home/; Click on the button “Take Action”. Using your zip code the system will then help you automatically send an email to all of YOUR Senators, Congressmen and the Obama Administration;
(2) Send this email to 10 friends and ask them to take action. You can use the “Tell a friend” tool athttp://capwiz.com/biggameforever/home/; or simply forward this email;
(3) Call Senator Tester’s Washington D.C. Office at (202)224-2644. Be professional but tell them that (A) YOU DO NOT SUPPORT HIS BILL on wolf management; (B) You DO support Senator Hatch’s bill S.3919; and (c) As co-chairman of the Congressional sportsman’s caucus you are disappointed that he wants to take away authority from the people of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and YOUR state to manage the state wildlife resources and give it to the Obama Administration.

Thanks for your efforts to preserve our rights to hunt and fish.
--
Ryan Benson
http://biggameforever.org/
ryandbenson@msn.com

 

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And don't be surprised if amnesty for illegals is enclosed in this mess also
[FONT=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif][FONT=Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif]Citizens for Balanced Use
8 Billion in Pork
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[FONT=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Dear Jim,

1.2 Trillion Dollar Spending Bill

Senator Tester has found a way to include his wilderness bill in the Senate Omnibus Spending Bill along with 20,000 other earmarks totally more than 8 Billion dollars of PURE PORK.

His action signals a complete lack of open government and transparency.
S1470 violates both federal law and our U.S. Constitution and
Senator Tester has violated the public trust.

CBU will begin an advertising campaign to educate the public about S1470
and we are asking our members and supporters to help us financially.
Please send your contribution to
CBU
P.O. Box 606
Gallatin Gateway, Mt 59730
or
Visit our website at balanceduse.org
for the convenience of PayPal

If S1470 and the other 20,000 earmarks pass congress, CBU is gearing up to fight this bad legislation in court. The people of Montana and the United States depend on natural resources for our national security and independence from foreign countries.

Tester's bill will lock away, from future generations, the most
mineral rich land in our nation and close over 600,000 acres
to multiple use recreation.

A spending bill of over 1900 pages packed full of special interest paybacks with our Montana Senator leading the pack of pigs.
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TONIGHT!

An Emergency Telephone Town Hall Meeting
On Senator Tester's NEW Wilderness Bill

Even as Congress continues to force through massive trillion-dollar bills that no one has time to read, remember

YOUR OPINION MATTERS

Your opinion matters to me, which is why I would like you to join me TODAY at 6:50 PM for a telephone town hall meeting to discuss the new wilderness legislation that Senator Tester has added to a 2,000-page trillion-dollar omnibus spending bill.

What: Emergency Tele-Townhall Meeting
Subject: Senator Jon Tester’s New Wilderness Legislation
When: Wednesday, December 15, 2010, at 6:50 PM MST
Toll-Free Call In: (877) 229-8493
Event PIN: 12957

Montanans I've talked to are fed up with a Congress that acts before it asks. We have been force-fed one big-government policy after another, while the politicians who keep voting for more hide out in Washington and refuse to talk to constituents. That's not how this country was designed, and it won't fly in Montana. These underhanded tactics are the last thing we expect from someone who told us he was going to try and make Washington look more like Montana.

Sincerely,

Denny Rehberg

 

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More info here too: http://www.snowestonline.com/forum/showthread.php?t=242378

Lame Duck is Lame, and and should be illegal!

Public Land is just that.....make your voice heard! Call and express your thoughts. When I called, it took maybe 2 minutes to make 2 calls and get my comments on record! Don't let them get away with this!!

 

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Everyone needs to call....this is PUBLIC LAND....if it's taken away, it's taken away from ALL of us.

The enviro-zealots are sending out a lot of email about this and urging folks to call in support. We NEED to make our voices heard!!

One of the emails is titled "Montana Wildlife's Holiday Wish" Another is "Mr. President, Give the Gift that Stands the Test of Time", and there are many more.

PLEASE call

 

[christopher]

Glad to see this effort is starting to grow some legs here on SnoWest.