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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">offroad vehicles</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">logging?</font></div><div><header id="shareLocation" style="border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; display: flex; float: left; width: 770px; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box; flex-direction: row; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="post-header" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; flex: 1 1 0%; float: left;"><h1 class="post-title" itemprop="name headline" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act proposed</font></h1><span class="post-meta" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 2px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">by<div itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"> <a itemprop="url" href="https://balanceduse.org/news/author/Kerry%20White" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block;">Kerry White</a> </div></span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 2px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">in <a href="https://balanceduse.org/news/category/BCSA-wilderness" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block;">BCSA wilderness</a> </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 2px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted on <p itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2021-11-01T16:33:00Z" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block;">11/01/2021 </p></span></font></span></div></header><div class="col20 f-left" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 770px;"><div id="container-widget-1635783266256" data-type="Container" class="grid-row
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widgetResponsive textWidget col20" id="text-widget-1635783266300" data-type="TextWidget" data-delay="" data-animation-duration="" data-animation-delay="" data-animation="lazyAnimation-" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; width: 770px; float: left; position: relative;"><div class="text-widget-content" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none 0px; width: 770px; height: 720px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; cursor: auto !important;"><p style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Wildfires rage across the west every summer due to the lack of active forest management and years of neglect by the federal land managers. Environmental organizations must share the blame for the fires and extreme fuel loads we are experiencing today as their obstructionist litigation has literally destroyed our timber industry and mill infrastructure.</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> Here they come again with another wilderness bill in promoting the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act (BCSA) and another 80,000 acres of wilderness area preventing active management and prohibiting multiple use recreation.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> The slick propaganda and claims of protection would seem to influence the public in believing a let it burn, hands off management, lock it up approach would benefit the environment</span><b>. Their intention is not to improve our environment but rather to destroy our environment!</b></span></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> These out of state interests promoting the bill continue to claim a push poll published by the University of Montana has %75 percent of the public in support of this legislation. What is not revealed are the questions which were asked in the poll. These questions were intentionally deceiving to the public and asked in a way to obtain a predetermined outcome. The wag the dog approach to polling is all too common with these radical groups!</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> CBU contracted with 47 North on a more generic and accurate poll of whether folks in Montana support creating additional wilderness. 58% of Montana oppose new wilderness when the question includes the true definition of wilderness. Wilderness prohibits both motorized and mechanized use. No roads and trails open to motorized and mechanized use. No active forest management or fuel reduction projects are allowed.</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Slick radio ads and thousands of postcards are paid for by these www.greendecoys.com groups who have tons of money to spend and promote legislation that will fuel the fires and fill our air with more and more deadly carcinogens every summer.</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Our forests are overgrown, increasing transpiration, reducing ground water recharge and decreasing stream flows. Massive erosion after the fires create sedimentation that fills our streams and rivers. The radical environmental groups sell the BCSA as being good for the environment. Nothing could be further from the truth. The BCSA is nothing more than more wilderness, more land of no use, more fires, more smoke, reduced access, and stopping any active forest management. Groups like Wild Montana and the Montana Wilderness Association are promoting agendas to destroy our environment, burn our forests, pollute our streams and rivers, and hurt small communities across the west.</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Tell Senator Tester we don't need additional wilderness in Montana!</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senator Jon Tester: 406-723-3277 or email him at his website tester.senate.gov</font></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><br /></div></div>