No it's not. Stillwater Forest is nearly the entire west flank of the Flathead Valley, and it is where nearly everyone goes for resources... What you don't know is that everything east of the Flathead Valley with the exception of the Coal Creek area and the Swan Valley is already tied up clean to the Continental divide by Glacier Park, The Bob Marshal Wilderness, and the Great Bear Wilderness. And it is all chock-full of Griz.
So this will eventually gate off everything west of the Flathead, and most of the north fork (coal creek). And everything East (with the exception of the Swan) is already off limits. And there ain't anything south all the way to the Clark Fork.
So where the hell exactly are we supposed to go for forest resources? What is left to log? Where do we go fishing and hunting without hiking in three days?
You REALLY don't know what you are talking about.
Because fires destroy natural habitat, bears are not confined to one small area, they search` eveywhere for food. If they go into hibernaation without enough nourishment, they will die during their winter hiatus.
Oh, what pitiful bullcrap. And btw, Logging is how you control fires. Logging is therefore GOOD for griz (and it is). How does getting rid of roads and logging protect them then? It is idiocy. and land grab. Again.
If they search everywhere for food, then they must need this “everywhere” to be all for them. Puts it into their habitat you see. And now that habitat needs to be cleared of humans.
At least that is my take on it.
Put out a behavior whether it is genuine or not. Anything to get that ESA label.
Then you can push agenda 21 all the better.