More Bad MT Elk Legislation LC2343

[bigsky2]

You can't make this stuff up. Not at all surprising though considering who the sponsor is.

https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2021/lchtml/LC2343.htm

 

[Straight Arrow]

who the sponsor is.

Who???

 

[Schaaf]

Wylie Galt

 

[Ben Lamb]

Unlimited Landowner Elk tags, with no sideboards on selling them, outfitting or anything else.

That's going to be fun.

And the requester is the Speaker of the House.

 

[bigsky2]

I wonder how he dreamt up Section 2. Rewarding people with 5 bonus points for opting for the cow-only general tag.

 

[mtnkid85]

Since we are saying NO to outfitter sponsored tags now they are trying for more landowner sponsored tags. Each landowner can get 10 tags to handout to there friends.

 

[bigsky2]

I guess we won't need bonus points when special permits go away anyways.

 

[Ben Lamb]

Since we are saying NO to outfitter sponsored tags now they are trying for more landowner sponsored tags. Each landowner can get 10 tags to handout to there friends.

Each landowner who owns 640 acres or more. You don't even have to have elk on your land.

So get those 10 tags & sell 'em to your neighbor so you too can cash in on the Montana Legislature's war on elk.

 

[huntin24/7]

These new bills are the kind of stuff you dream up when you take too much NyQuil and have really F’d up dreams.

it almost feels like they’re flooding this legislative session with so many bad bills that we can’t fight them all. Insane!

 

[Mtnhunter1]

Ranch'n for Wildlife......the future sucks!

 

[Spartan_Eric]

Perhaps, at this juncture we should start working on a Ballot Initiative that covers many fronts! Hopefully, there is not even more bad wildlife/hunting legislation in the pipeline??? I will have carpal tunnel syndrome after writing all the opposition e-mails from this legislative session!

 

[Ben Lamb]

These new bills are the kind of stuff you dream up when you take too much NyQuil and have really F’d up dreams.

it almost feels like they’re flooding this legislative session with so many bad bills that we can’t fight them all. Insane!

Think about it from the perspective of a large family that owns many properties, yet operate under the same corporate structure, including the outfitting portion: 6 owners listed, that's 60 elk licenses for free, that you can then sell or use as bait for your outfitting services. That doesn't count the other B10's that your dudes can put in for, so it's a double dip of magnificent proportions and ultimately, it's ranching for wildlife and the privatization of wildlife in Montana.

We can fight them. We did it in 2011, 2013, 2015 and so many other sessions without relying on the backstop of a Democratic Governor. We did it by sticking together, slogging it out and raising the $*)Q!#@$ roof until the walls shook.

It's time to really shake these walls.

 

[JLS]

The inmates are running the asylum.

 

[MTGomer]

Are we sure that storming a Capital is ALWAYS wrong?

 

[SaskHunter]

Still waiting for someone to come out and say that all those bills were a prank on April 1st!

"It's just a prank, bro"

 

[Ben Lamb]

Are we sure that storming a Capital is ALWAYS wrong?

Same rules as testifying:
Be polite & courteous
Wear a decent shirt
No buffalo horns
No swearing
No sedition

 

[tjones]

If this doesn't make Montana folks step back and take a look at how they voted nothing will.

 

[MTGomer]

Would the tag have to be used in the original recipient’s property?

 

[MTLabrador]

Same rules as testifying:
Be polite & courteous
Wear a decent shirt
No buffalo horns
No swearing
No sedition

I don't see "no brass knuckles or lead pipes" listed here, so I can live without the buffalo horns.

 

[TheTone]

Glad Montana has so many pressing social and political issues for the legislature to focus on...I feel bad for the states hunters