Voices

Sen. Jon Tester writes, "It is important for Montanans and new neighbors to be able to discuss management of public lands and understand a full picture of impacts of any proposal on the local resources and consider impacts beyond the physical footprint of this permit."

Christian Wohlfeil writes, "Like many similar recreational facilities on federal land in the United States, the Lodge operates under a United States Forest Service (USFS) special use permit. This permit allows a privately owned, for-profit business, whose purpose is to sell recreation-style products to the public, to operate on federal land."

Phil Knight and George Wuerthner write, "The impacts of industrial civilization and its addiction to fossil fuels is wreaking havoc on the Earth’s life-support systems. We need to take many steps to curb our consumption and try to blunt the impacts of climate change and other unfolding disasters."

Bill Lombardi writes, "The Forest Service quickly lost the trust of the public because of an obscure and confusing public scoping process and a failure to be totally transparent when this project was initially hatched."

Frank and Maggie Allen write, "Tom France recognizes the huge need for affordable housing. He believes he has “core obligations” to be “frugal with tax money” and to “strengthen Montana’s public education system.”

Marty Essen writes, "My books, which support human rights and the environment, have been called 'bigoted,' 'liberal idiocy,' and 'left-wing propaganda.' Other one-star reviewers have simply posted 'I have chosen not to read his book,' and 'Trump 2020.'"

Andy Roubik writes, "This is a great win for the forest. Logs, especially large logs, will take decades to decompose during which time they will make our forest a richer environment for wildlife."

Montana National Organization of Women write, "We need her fair, just and critically important decisions to defend the powers of our Montana Constitution and to protect the human rights of all who reside in our state."

Brandon Smith writes, "Extremist politicians suggest that our constitution isn’t providing Montanans a high level of decency and freedom. Have the last five decades been so absolutely mortifying that nobody wanted to talk about it until 2022?"

Mike Garrity writes, "The Forest Service's decision puts private cattle on the public’s national forest one month earlier in the spring when calves are still very small and tempting targets for hungry grizzlies starving for food after waking up from a long winter nap."