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    Monster Day at the Montana Capitol

    Big turnout, given the roads. The rotunda was packed.
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    Montana HB - 462: Worth your time Marijuana Taxes & Access

    To give in to jadedness, I doubt they give a chit which alternative gets the dough as long as they kill Habitat Montana. It’s like a bunch of road hunters opening up on a distant elk; long as it goes down in the barrage, they are good. What other FWP program has multiple other bills trying to...
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    Montana HB - 462: Worth your time Marijuana Taxes & Access

    I’m interested in Ben’s take, but it seems to me that Bertoglio is deflecting—her bill would take away the majority of Habitat Montana’s funding and permanently prevent support from the growing marijuana tax revenues (nearly twice what was projected a few years ago)—so “gutting” seems fair. I...
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    Goodbye, Ruger

    No matter how lucky any of us are, there are those few who stand out. You honor the love, work, and birds you and Ruger shared with your grief.
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    lab pup

    I have a very clear memory of sitting on the can in my dad’s bathroom sixty years or so ago and reading the first line of the Gene Hill column on the last page of the latest Field&Stream (not a precise quote, but pretty close): “Whoever thinks you can’t buy happiness doesn’t know about gun dog...
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    Montana HB - 462: Worth your time Marijuana Taxes & Access

    That’s good advice. I would further suggest you include your reps (they do talk to one another) and the governor. Use bcc: to make it look like they are getting individual emails. Furthermore, I would urge you to contact any good friends who live in the districts of committee members to...
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    Patrick Byorth's Experience on the Montana FWP Commission

    I just heard that GG’s press sec ripped the Missoulian editor a new one for that interview. Just my opinion, but when the commission leadership cuts one member out of most of the commission’s internal meetings, there is a very severe structural issue.
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    Montana HB - 462: Worth your time Marijuana Taxes & Access

    It’s actually illuminating to watch a whole hearing and see either lack of knowledge or full-on deception play out. Scott is right that leveraged Federal match money is one of the great advantages of HM, but one of the main strategies of the proponents and our “healthy and bountiful” governor...
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    Montana HB - 462: Worth your time Marijuana Taxes & Access

    That was an orchestrated and well-staffed dog and pony show. I particularly liked the first guy from DOJ who said its request was very modest, but they would get only one shot at the exploding fentanyl crisis, and this bill was it. If that’s the case, we are in trouble.
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    Montana HB - 462: Worth your time Marijuana Taxes & Access

    I didn’t think the hearing was going at all well until Mary Caferro pointed out that only Habitat Montana was being cut, and that Appropriations could maintain 20% funding, veterans could get twice as much, and there would still be plenty for the general fund. The fact that only HM was being...
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    Montana HB - 462: Worth your time Marijuana Taxes & Access

    The intent for ~half of the revenues to go to conservation (37.1% Habitat Montana, 12.4% the other three programs) truly was a major part of its profile as communicated to the voters.
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    Montana HB - 462: Worth your time Marijuana Taxes & Access

    And not going particularly well
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    SB 281: Reducing the number of antleress B tags for Non--Residents

    Ben, you are very knowledgeable, but I have to take major issue with that. FWP and the legislature haven’t been data-driven decision makers in awhile. Remember when shoulder seasons were presented as an experiment, to be reassessed?
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    Montana HB - 462: Worth your time Marijuana Taxes & Access

    The bill’s hearing has been postponed to Thursday at 3.
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    McKean guest opinion on HB 462 (cutting MJ tax revenue for HM)

    Here is a characteristically articulate guest opinion from Andrew urging testimony against HB 462, the bill that follows the Governor’s budget zeroing out marijuana tax revenues for Habitat Montana and reductions for other conservation. Andrew’s citing of 20% going to conservation is incorrect...
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    Opinion pieces like this bug me

    In the credit where credit is due department, RMEF today endorsed HB 383, sponsored by Tom France, a Dem from Missoula, that would create the Montana Hunters and Anglers Community Fund, a voluntary donation fund designed for hunters and anglers to help small Montana towns with populations under...
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    Opinion pieces like this bug me

    Apologies—I should have posted the bill number. It’s HB 462.
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    Opinion pieces like this bug me

    I’m frustrated to be posting this, but for those thinking it’s a happy new day of working together for elk, other wildlife, and access in Montana, Marta Bertoglio (R-HD 75) dropped the Governor’s bill this morning eliminating Habitat Montana’s 20% share of marijuana tax revenue. Ignoring the...
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    Opinion pieces like this bug me

    Randy, I respect and admire your hosting and engaging at length in this thread. Your responses, like others in this thread, have led me to some deep thinking and to return several times to the guest opinion piece to reread it and try to understand how it came across and where my own thinking...
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    Opinion pieces like this bug me

    Mr. Conyngham and Mr. Shaw ARE more concerned with federal land transfer, to quote 44. There are some very intelligent and dangerous people working on that (though Rosendale doesn’t make that cut), like Mike Lee. It’s just easier to stimulate conversation and, maybe, thought and voter...

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