For those still paying attention, HB 676 was gutted in committee Friday, with the land sales amended out. My understanding is that it's still a problematic bill relative to the water rights issue, however.
Montana Trout Unlimited did a tremendous amount of work on this bill, and while there's...
It's a remnant from the original language. It's inartful in it's current form. I can see why some folks would feel they way you do. There are better ways to get that intent.
We are asking for an amendment to restore the language relative to no one being able to hold more than 3 licenses, so...
They could take into account far more than just overall herd numbers and look at multi-district usage of elk based on migation patterns, etc so you don't over harvest elk in one EMU that is at or above OR, when those same elk utelize districts that are under OR.
The agency could do that, but a...
It means the department has the authority to scale those three licenses (a tag & two cow licenses) based on desired herd objectives.
So it really just deals with the issues in the sponsors district, where he wants more uniformity in how licenses are issued between districts that are at or below...
Sorry, not section 11, section 7.
You have to look at the entirety of the provision and not just cherry pick pieces of an entire section otherwise you miss a ton of relevant language:
So that piece of statute clearly calls for no more than 2 antlerless licenses per person, so the notion that...
FY 2025 saw around $7.5 million spent from the account between conservation leases & easements. If the Land Board would support more Conservation Easements then that would have been higher.
A lot of stuff floating out there around SB 270 doesn't really interpret the bill correctly. Or they ignore the amendments that have been added to respond to the legitimate criticism it had early on.
The bill is here:
https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1999?open_tab=sum
In it's current...