hunting

In addition to adding the right for individuals to hunt, fish and trap to the state constitution it would also make those the preferred method of the conservation and management of wildlife in Montana.

Harold Johns writes, "It’s yet another step in a direction towards privatization of Montana’s wildlife, a path that Montanans don’t want to be going down."

Montana hunters agree on many things, but a bill to give elk tags to nonresident landowners isn’t one of them.

Joseph Scalia writes, "Courage, boldness, and prowess do not come by brutalizing and killing noble beasts. Nor by setting "sustainable harvest" levels."

Ryan Busse writes, "Our state is one of the few remaining places where private-jet owners and billionaire media tycoons have no advantage over diesel mechanics, schoolteachers or farmhands."

Legislators might have jostled a sleeping giant in 2021 by messing with Montana’s hunting and fishing laws. Hunters and anglers may have been too sluggish to react then, but now, they’re demanding accountability at the ballot box.