Montana_Wanderer
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If that was true all tags would be limited entry already. I'm not against limited entry when needed, but it isn't the only way to manage wildlife.
Montana 2025 Legislative Session
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Carnage2011
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That’s a doozy.
Straight Arrow
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Legislating season setting and more broadly, wildlife management, sadly reflects typical legislator arrogance.
TheJason
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If any of you want to run a successful campaign, all you have to do is focus on pressing social issues. You know, like banning TikTok, and saving rut hunting for mule deer.
Gerald Martin
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That's why he is gone. mtmuleyJoe Biden supports saving rut hunting for mule deer. Fact.
Hem
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South Dakota limits number of Black Hills nonresident turkey tags - Outdoor News
But those turkeys and that beauty have drawn more hunters than South Dakota residents are willing to tolerate.
www.outdoornews.com
Residents having a say, and powers that be listening.
And where will all the displaced hunters opt to hunt? Yeah, no chance in hell I'm bothering with Eastern Montana this Spring. Come one, come all Montana motto.
ismith
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Nameless Range
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His holster usage looks poor at bestIn case anyone is wondering why this looks to be a bill written by a pair of differently abled matriarch fornicators...........................
WanderWoman
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Montana’s agricultural tax rules slash bills for thousands of million-dollar homes
Properties classified as agricultural get a tax break worth hundreds or thousands of dollars a year.
montanafreepress.org
Interesting article on potential tax reform and impacts to traditional ag, recreational properties, etc.
Bill summaries provided at the bottom.
JEL
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Sounds like a chit show of a session so far!
Standoff in the Montana State Senate brings work to a standstill
https://billingsgazette.com/news/st...cle_ddb4f2da-177c-5d03-8275-ab864ad9e8cf.html
Standoff in the Montana State Senate brings work to a standstill
https://billingsgazette.com/news/st...cle_ddb4f2da-177c-5d03-8275-ab864ad9e8cf.html
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Yup. If they wanted to lower property taxes for most Montanans, at least to some degree, I have a very simple solution.Montana’s agricultural tax rules slash bills for thousands of million-dollar homes
Properties classified as agricultural get a tax break worth hundreds or thousands of dollars a year.
Interesting article on potential tax reform and impacts to traditional ag, recreational properties, etc.
Bill summaries provided at the bottom.
Do not allow ag classification for any property owned by a non-resident or an entity with non-resident ownership. Do the Wilkes, Turner, Kroenke, (insert billionaire here), need the benefit of lower property taxes to keep their operation afloat?
If you are a resident, if ag profit is not 51% of your AGI, too bad for you. If you are a resident entity that is taxed as a pass-through entity, the test gets applied at the Shareholder/LLC Member level.
Why does the legislature refuse such easy solutions? I think we know the answer. Yet, for reasons we likely all know, UPOM is adamantly against any such effort to carve the non-resident billionaires out of the ag classification benefits. The governor and many in the legislature are against applying rules to residents who aren't farmers/ranchers, yet qualify under one of the huge loopholes provided in the MT system.
And these same folks protecting the status quo want to make the false claim that conservation easements are taking properties off the tax rolls. Complete BS. As a CPA I could never structure a conservation easement well enough to lower the property taxes to the degree I can get them lowered by using Montana's ag classification.
It's pretty damn easy to make that application and get approval - https://mtrevenue.gov/publications/agricultural-land-classification-application-form-ab-3/
Put me in charge of the property tax legislation and in two days I would increase property tax collections for counties by a huge margin, especially rural counties.
Sorry, off topic, but I had someone else's voice in my head when I read this part.
It would be something "no one has ever seen before". It will be "yuge".
Sorry, carry on.
Atten: Montana hunters/voters. Looks like the legislature is in a hurry to get this bill passed that takes away mule deer management from the FWP Commission.
It has already been referred to the FWP Committee as HB 139. Link here - https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1271?open_tab=bill
I would suggest all of you who are interested in keeping the legislature out of wildlife to email the sponsor, who happens to be the Chair of the House FWP Committee, and tell him you do not want the legislature taking these powers away from the agency and the Commission.
His email is - [email protected]
If this is the way he wants to start the session and if he is in such a hurry to cram this stuff through and make his Committee the new version of the FWP Commission, I strongly suggest that hunters let him know their displeasure. Gonna be a long session, so we may as well let him know we're here to oppose bad bills, no matter who introduces them.
Whether you agree/disagree with hunting mule deer in the rut, I suspect you don't want legislators managing wildlife. If so, let him know.
The Legislature has a new website this session. Included in this is a new way to send messages. You have to create an account but it's super easy & then you can send messages to the entire committee, register to comment remotely and submit documents if you have any. Please consider being a part of the the process and help advocate for wildlife:
participate.legmt.gov
Legislative Public Participation
The Legislative Public Participation app allows citizens to get involved in the legislative process. It makes it easy for anyone to communicate with lawmakers, testify in legislative hearings, and submit written testimony for bills and committees.
