Just in time for Big Game Season, there is a release of a great new mapping tool for Montana hunters. Go to the link below and look at the Montana Sportsmen's Atlas.
It has the Game Management Units, Block Management Properties, landownership when you drill down into the detail, and shows you where LWCF (Land and Water Conservation Funds) have been used to improve access and habitat in Montana.
Montana Sportsmen's Atlas
Go there and check it out. I got a peek glimpse prior to this and was very impressed. Today, it was rolled out for keeps, so I am sharing this with all of you who migh hunt Montana.
I hope you take time to look at all the red dots that represent LWCF projects. This is a program the House of Representatives has zeroed out in the budget, even though the monies paid into this fund are earmarked for access and conservation. To me, for Congress to divert those funds to pay for their own spending habits is the equivalent of them raiding the Pitmann-Robertson excise taxes we pay on our hunting equipment.
Having been involved in a ton of Montana land projects, I can assure you that most of them would not have been completed if not for LWCF. If not for LWCF, we would not have many of the big access projects now in public ownership; projects most of us now use for elk and deer hunting.
If a politician is wanting to raid LWCF and not fund it as agreed to by the enabling legislation that started it, they should be tossed out on their head. Of course, those who want to raid that fund also want to sell the public lands, so not a big surprise there.
Anyhow, very cool resource. I hope all Montana hunters take advantage of it. Combined with the map chips from huntingGPSmaps.com, there should be no reason to not be out there investigating every corner of Montana.
It has the Game Management Units, Block Management Properties, landownership when you drill down into the detail, and shows you where LWCF (Land and Water Conservation Funds) have been used to improve access and habitat in Montana.
Montana Sportsmen's Atlas
Go there and check it out. I got a peek glimpse prior to this and was very impressed. Today, it was rolled out for keeps, so I am sharing this with all of you who migh hunt Montana.
I hope you take time to look at all the red dots that represent LWCF projects. This is a program the House of Representatives has zeroed out in the budget, even though the monies paid into this fund are earmarked for access and conservation. To me, for Congress to divert those funds to pay for their own spending habits is the equivalent of them raiding the Pitmann-Robertson excise taxes we pay on our hunting equipment.
Having been involved in a ton of Montana land projects, I can assure you that most of them would not have been completed if not for LWCF. If not for LWCF, we would not have many of the big access projects now in public ownership; projects most of us now use for elk and deer hunting.
If a politician is wanting to raid LWCF and not fund it as agreed to by the enabling legislation that started it, they should be tossed out on their head. Of course, those who want to raid that fund also want to sell the public lands, so not a big surprise there.
Anyhow, very cool resource. I hope all Montana hunters take advantage of it. Combined with the map chips from huntingGPSmaps.com, there should be no reason to not be out there investigating every corner of Montana.
