Wildlife leaders write, "One of our best tools to keep Montana Montana is an important funding source that was established by the Montana legislature in 2021 to protect our outdoor way of life."
Tracy Stone-Manning, a 1992 graduate from the University of Montana Environmental Studies Master’s program, will leave her post heading the BLM as former President Donald Trump settles in for his second term.
Bill Schneider writes, "We have seen at least five major collaborative proposals that basically divide up the last of wild Montana, some for Wilderness, but much Wilderness-quality lands compromised for other land uses."
Mike Garrity writes, "There's a boiling controversy right now over the future of hundreds of thousands of acres of Forest Service lands abutting Yellowstone National Park and comprising the core of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem."
Katie Bilodeu writes, "Some argue that recreationists are the best wilderness advocates. But if a climber only cares about Wilderness so long as she can use fixed anchors, or a biker only cares about Wilderness insofar as he can bike there, do these folks really care about Wilderness? "
A number of oil and gas leases in southern Utah, one of which was so controversial that seven Democratic U.S. senators urged the federal government to cancel it, are now the subject of an environmental lawsuit.
Kevin Proescholdt writes, "Let’s cherish our wilderness heritage, whole and intact. We owe it to the farseeing founders of the Wilderness Act, and we owe it to future generations."
Joseph Scalia III writes, "Most crucially untold is the loss of the Porcupine and Buffalo Horn drainages, the most wildlife vital part of the lands in question."