"The Cottonwood decision from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2015 emphasizes how litigious groups have weaponized the Endangered Species Act to prevent forest management projects."
"Policymakers must ask whether the minuscule risk of an escaped prescribed burn is worth doing nothing, allowing fuels to build up and putting the forest at a higher risk of an all-consuming destructive wildfire."
Over just a few years, Montana has proven a capable leader in conducting forest restoration work on federal lands under a Good Neighbor Authority agreement.
It’s official, we’ve reached the halfway point in Montana’s 2025 Legislative Session. This marks the point in which general bills must pass the floor of either the House or the Senate, or they are considered dead. The exceptions to this are Revenue bills, study resolutions and constitutional amendments, which have a later date in which...