You mention forest management. Don’t know what area you are in but you can drive nearly from Bozeman up past Great Falls and Helena and see nothing but dead trees—millions of acres, killled by pine beetle.
In a few years there will be millions more and then the fires will start and half the state will burn. Then the rain and snow will bring the soot and topsoil down and the rivers will be clogged with silt, perhaps for generations.
That’s called forest management and conservation, U.S. government style.
Listen, though, don’t give up. At least we can go out and shoot a wolf.
One correction: A whole lot of those dead trees WERE killed by pine beetles, but most of that stuff is fire kill. Got the same deal running east from Bozeman along I90 nearly all the way to Billings.
Shoot a wolf? Me? Never heard of such a thing.
(..riiiiiiiiiight..)