Just to be clear, you are saying developing $10 campgrounds is making private parks exclusively for the wealthy and upper echelon? Wow, your definition of wealthy and mine are quite different.
There’s more down here than there is up there.
Gotta know the secret UPOM handshake. That gets you into a members only section of their website with bulleted talking points.
She feels that AP’s effort is entirely futile to the point of being nothing more than a money making scheme that will continue to damage the prairie, maybe forever this time. Clarence Mortensen conducted a 50 year experiment to try and bring the prairie habitat on his ranch back to the way it was before the settlers with their cattle and sheep devastated the prairie. And of course they extirpated the buffalo which were vital to maintain the prairie habitat.
I gave my sources...all creditable news sources and peer reviewed scientific research.
There is no logic to track. It is a study...all good stuff though. The tribes may find that raising buffalo is more profitable than cattle, but the habitat has to be restored before the buffalo arrive. You still need fences and good ones. The tribes have tried it and so far it hasn’t worked out so well. Just because you put buffalo on previously destroyed prairie habitat doesn’t mean that habitat will come back....the opposite is true. The Mortensen Ranch Project proved that the prairie natural habitat must be reseeded over time and to do that the natural water sources must be restored. SDSU has thousands of pages of research and studies about it.Landmark Study Demonstrates Cultural, Ecological and Economic Benefits of Tribal Bison Restoration
A study published today in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution found that widespread restoration of bison to Tribal lands throughout the Northern Great Plains can help restore the prairie ecosystem while improving the long-running issue of food insecurity and food sovereignty for Native Nations...www.sdstate.edu
I'm having a helluva time tracking your logic on this topic. What exactly distinguishes the AP from the tribal efforts to do the same?
Been working fine for Turner and AP with bison for a long time. I worked for Ted for 3 years and cattle don't replicate bison on how they use the land. You're wrong, bison and cattle behave much different in how they utilize the land. A herd of bison will not impact the land the same way a herd of cattle will, just a fact. I watched it, studied it, and wrote reports and management plans about it for 3 years.
Finally, we're making progress.
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Respectfully, the ITBC & many tribes would disagree with your statements.
I'll read you link if you get it to work. I went to the ecosunprairiefarms pubs page and none of the 5 studies match that link.
After his acknowledgement of ignorance of Montana public access programs and moreover of the hunting legacy and dynamics of this state, as well as the skewed perspective of the programs and goals of AP, my instinct tells me he has some relationship with UPOM or at least with one or several of the "Save the cowboy" crowd. Either case, Gila is certainly not detracting from the successes of AP or from the strong support of HTers. He is merely alienating himself from this hunting and public lands advocacy, apparently with no self awareness of the futility of his pontification that is emphasized by links to information which contradict his own assertions.
