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As more than 20 fires burn in Montana, a debate over how to manage forests to prepare for burns flared up in a Bozeman City Commission meeting Tuesday night. Commissioners narrowly passed a measure to support a controversial logging project. The commission voted 3-2 to file an amicus brief in support of the decade-and-a-half in the making Bozeman Municipal Watershed Project.The Cottonwood Environmental Law Center sued last summer to stop the project, but a federal judge dismissed the case in December. The environmental organization appealed that decision a couple months later. The project calls for nearly 5,000 acres of prescribed burns, thinning and logging near Bozeman and Hyalite creeks to protect the city’s water supply in the event of a catastrophic wildfire. ....
Montana Bill Would Ask Voters To Add Fishing, Hunting, Trapping To State Constitution mtpr.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mtpr.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
/ Republican Rep. Paul Fielder of Thompson Falls, sponsor of HB 367, introduces the proposed legislation during during a House Judiciary Committee on March 12, 2021. Montana legislators heard testimony Friday on a bill that, if passed, would ask voters to amend language in the state constitution related to harvesting and managing wildlife. House Bill 367 proposes to change the state constitution’s language to explicitly say Montanans have the right to hunt, fish, trap and harvest fish and wildlife with current methods. Currently, the constitution says the opportunity for citizens to harvest fish and wild game will forever be preserved. Republican Rep. Paul Fielder of Thompson Falls introduced his bill during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Friday. ....