Posted on 08/03/2013 6:56:06 PM PDT by george76
The Bureau of Land Management is currently considering several Resource Management Plan proposals in Montana, with one major objective ostensibly aimed at conserving sage grouse habitat to bolster population growth. However, one look at the management plans clearly shows that the stated intentions are very different from what the plans would actually accomplish. In reality, these RMPs are one of the biggest threats to private property rights and natural resource development that our state has seen in years.
The RMPs would effectively shut down BLM-managed land, as well as some privately held land, to development by eliminating grazing permits, restricting surface occupancy, as well as the use and development of roads and rail lines.
BLM has conducted a preliminary environmental impact statement in order to analyze what new conservation measures should be undertaken in the management plans where they believe sage-grouse is most in need of conservation. The BLM EIS is rife with vague and ambiguous language, resulting in inaccurate conclusions. For instance, the BLM’s economic modeling leads them to the conclusion that the proposed rules would have no impact on “very small towns dependent on agriculture.” There’s simply no credible way to believe that imposing such a dramatic change of use across hundreds of thousands of acres of land could have no impact on local economies.
The EIS completely ignores the negative effects on property rights and local economies
(Excerpt) Read more at missoulian.com ...
sage grouse,, yummy.. tastes just like spotted owl... uhh chicken..
Sorry, my copy of the Constitution doesn’t allow for a BLM with these kinds of powers.
Big Sky ping.
They got ya by the RMP.. we’re skrewed.
The State of Montana has an NSA like inventory of all property characteristics and is more than willing to RULE.
It is a concerted effort by all government agencies to eliminate all property rights.
Getting close to “if you can’t ignore them, shoot them” time.
Be safe.
Ping
LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE!!
What does a sage grouse do and why do we need more of them?
The sage grouse is making a comeback in Detroit. Thousands of the birds have taken to living in abandoned houses. The Detroit Divas can be seen with a sage grouse peeking out of their purses. The hep cats in Detroit can be spotted on the boulevards with a sage grouse sticking its head out the passenger window. Tres chic!
I have eaten a lot of sage chickens. I used to live out by The Craters of the Moon . We started seeing a decline in the bird numbers in the 90’s. Nothing had changed as far as more cattle on BLM rangeland or more people out there running around. There was no big increase in the number of hunters. Maybe varmints increased. Maybe pollution was a factor, but at the time they did a study that said the air out there was some of the cleanest in the country.
I think it is merely their time to go. Adapt or die.
So all this about saving the sage grouse is a lie. Another big fat lie.
The BLM, the EPA, in fact most of the big government agencies need to go extinct too.
There is a drive on to take federal lands in western states and put them under state control. That needs to happen.
They are very tasty. Especially the young ones.
Sage grouse are coyote food. Make coyotes no limit vermin as we have in Idaho.
It is a concerted effort by all government agencies to eliminate all property rights.
I believe that's the first half of the mission; the remainder is to deliver prodigious large quantities of property and natural resources to the oligarchy that's replaced the federal government in all but name and flag.
What we've been calling "crony capitalism" is a white collar version of looting.
Wonder what Ted Turner, Tom Brokaw, and David Letterman will have to say about this turn of events. They’re big land owners in Montana.
conserving sage grouse habitat....
BULL!
There is NO threat to the “sage grouse” in MT!
When they steal Ted Turner’s ranch, we’ll know they really care....
Exactly. We just got what is probably a temporary halt to a watershed management plan called the While River Blueways - it is nothing more than an attempted takeover of land by the federal government.
It’s part of Agenda 21.
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