Montana 2025 Legislative Session

[Forkyfinder]

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:

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.

participate.legmt.gov

Now i just have to remember to be nice

 

[Ben Lamb]

Now i just have to remember to be nice

Please do so. Regardless of what you think of the legislation, these folks have left their homes & jobs for 4 months to do the people's business.

Respect goes a long way.

Now, go forth and slay dragons - respectfully.

 

[cgasner1]

It takes about 2 min to set up a account and send Jed a email. Well it took me 2 min most of you will probably be about 45 seconds

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:

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.

participate.legmt.gov

 

[Luke_with_a_lab]

Message sent. I think the new public participation portal seems like it may be a useful tool.... As long as they legislators actually pay attention to the public.

 

[INMT]

Signed up and message sent. That’s pretty slick. Thanks @BenLamb for the heads up!

 

[Mountain Mule]

Signed up and comment sent. That was easy. I hope most of you Montana HTers take the time to send something in.

 

[B&CTom]

I also signed up, and sent my comment. Thank you @bigsky2 and @Ben Lamb for making us aware of the HB draft and legislative participation portal, respectively.

 

[Nameless Range]

Great to get involved, and let this legislature know we are paying attention, but also good to let them know what you support. It cuts both ways. Here's one I sent a note of support into.

Bill Explorer

Explore, track, and stay informed on legislative bills in Montana with the Montana Legislature Bill Explorer application. Access detailed information, monitor bill progress, and engage with the legislative process easily from your desktop or mobile device.

bills.legmt.gov

 

[B&CTom]

I agree with you @Nameless Range, and I'll review that Trapper Apprentice draft as well. A quick scan tells me it is something I'd likely support. I know of one bill that should be drafted today, or very soon. Having signed up for the participation portal will make that easier for me to voice my opinion there as well. Good to be in the fray!

 

[cgasner1]

The hearing for HB 139 has been scheduled for Tuesday, January 14th at 3 pm.

Please send your comments to the whole committee and ask them to vote no on taking your right to set seasons away.

The bill limits the voice of hunters in wildlife.management. we don't need that especially when we're dealing with population crashes & a bill that would continue the downward trend in eastern Montana.

You can also sign up to testify against the bill via zoom, or you can show up in Helena on Tuesday, January 14th at 3pm in room 172.

 

[MTGomer]

written by a pair of differently abled matriarch fornicators...........................

i love that.

 

[Forkyfinder]

The hearing for HB 139 has been scheduled for Tuesday, January 14th at 3 pm.

Please send your comments to the whole committee and ask them to vote no on taking your right to set seasons away.

The bill limits the voice of hunters in wildlife.management. we don't need that especially when we're dealing with population crashes & a bill that would continue the downward trend in eastern Montana.

You can also sign up to testify against the bill via zoom, or you can show up in Helena on Tuesday, January 14th at 3pm in room 172.

hope a lot of people can make it...

 

[Eric Albus]

I will do my level best to advocate for OUR resource.

Remember this going forward, I will have information I can’t share, you may not always agree with my decisions, but I will advocate for resource first management.

 

[Luke_with_a_lab]

I will do my level best to advocate for OUR resource.

Remember this going forward, I will have information I can’t share, you may not always agree with my decisions, but I will advocate for resource first management.

Respectfully, why can't you share the information? Do the people not have a right to know what is going on behind the scenes in their own state?

 

[cgasner1]

Respectfully, why can't you share the information? Do the people not have a right to know what is going on behind the scenes in their own state?

Do you play poker with your cards on the table?

 

[Luke_with_a_lab]

Do you play poker with your cards on the table?

While playing the hand no, but at the end of the hand yes, you lay your cards on the table. I think there has been enough closed door, behind the scenes nonsense going on at both state and federal levels. Do people not deserve to know why their representatives made a certain decision ?

 

[cgasner1]

While playing the hand no, but at the end of the hand yes, you lay your cards on the table. I think there has been enough closed door, behind the scenes nonsense going on at both state and federal levels. Do people not deserve to know why their representatives made a certain decision ?

They do and it’s allot easier to figure out after what happened. Maybe get involved more with a conservation group?

 

[Straight Arrow]

While playing the hand no, but at the end of the hand yes, you lay your cards on the table. I think there has been enough closed door, behind the scenes nonsense going on at both state and federal levels. Do people not deserve to know why their representatives made a certain decision ?

What's the difference what Albus or anyone else is explaining and revealing?! Point is that HB 139, Hunt the Rut, is a bad bill potentially continuing to adversely impact mule deer herd health. Furthermore it legislates wildlife management and season setting decisions that are the authority and responsibility of FWP and Montana Fish & Game Commission. Can we all agree on that and submit opposition through comments to House Fish & Game committee prior to the Tues, Jan 14th hearing on the bill?
Then going forward, monitor the certain array of bad bills coming off drafts and speak your piece to committee, legislators, House and Senate. It won't cost a dime.

 

[Luke_with_a_lab]

They do and it’s allot easier to figure out after what happened. Maybe get involved more with a conservation group?

I’m an active member of multiple.

 

[Gerald Martin]

While playing the hand no, but at the end of the hand yes, you lay your cards on the table. I think there has been enough closed door, behind the scenes nonsense going on at both state and federal levels. Do people not deserve to know why their representatives made a certain decision ?

Love it or hate it, representatives have to work with each other through the entire session. There’s a multitude of bills and at times they will be united in support or opposition and at times they’ll find themselves on different sides of supporting or opposing certain bills. They’re colleagues and if one party or the other gets a reputation for revealing conversations about the process then his colleagues are probably not going to view him or her as someone they can trust to not use their conversations against them for personal advantage.