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Montana 2025 Legislative Session

Sounds great. Lets charge that weird couple from Iowa who probably helped craft this thing.

They hunted on land they didnt own twice, put it on tv, and not a single person seemed to care :)
They didn't get that through 635. They got that through the Landowner Preference Permit Pool that has been around since 1976 that doesn't require you to hunt your own private land and has also been addressed this session with SB 235 which passed the Senate recently 50-0. So I think it's fair to say a few people cared.
 
What are the benefits and what were the costs? Who benefits and how?

Answer those questions - and unless you can afford a rich guys ranch to get a gimme elk permit in a LE unit i think youll find out.
Nothing wrong with a landowner getting a tag to hunt their own land. Most states do that, and I know one state that the tags are free for the landowner.
 
Some of the 454 agreements are pretty disgusting.
On a different note thanks to all the hunt talkers that are putting their time and effort into trying to improve things. I was able to watch some of the committee meetings at work today and we have some good advocates trying to head things in the right direction.
 
Sounds great. Lets charge that weird couple from Iowa who probably helped craft this thing.

They hunted on land they didnt own twice, put it on tv, and not a single person seemed to care :)

HB 635 was the brain child of a guy who runs one of the largest land trusts in the state and is a former legislator most well known for getting bridge access enshrined in law.
 
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