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Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars/ mountain lions,bobcats, wolverines, lynx, foxes, fishers and martens are the suite of carnivores that originally inhabited North America after the Pleistocene extinctions. This site invites research, commentary, point/counterpoint on that suite of native animals (predator and prey) that inhabited The Americas circa 1500-at the initial point of European exploration and subsequent colonization. Landscape ecology, journal accounts of explorers and frontiersmen, genetic evaluations of museum animals, peer reviewed 20th and 21st century research on various aspects of our "Wild America" as well as subjective commentary from expert and layman alike. All of the above being revealed and discussed with the underlying goal of one day seeing our Continent rewilded.....Where big enough swaths of open space exist with connective corridors to other large forest, meadow, mountain, valley, prairie, desert and chaparral wildlands.....Thereby enabling all of our historic fauna, including man, to live in a sustainable and healthy environment. - Blogger Rick

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Saturday, May 28, 2011

While Senator Jon Testor of Montana is not someone that I regularly line up with as it relates to carnivore and wildlands restoration issues, I will join MONTANA WILDERNESS in supporting the Montana Lands Act that for the first time will preserve some of the YAAK,,,,,,,located in Northern Montana, some of the most intact ecosytems remaining in the USA where the entire suite of Pre-Columbian Carnivores still clings to life making a living..............Let us get this bill passed ASAP!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Montana Wilderness Association <mwa@wildmontana.org>
Date: Fri, May 27, 2011 at 4:01 PM
Subject: A rancher, a logger and a farmer all say YES to Wilderness
To: rick.meril@gmail.com





 

Senator Jon Tester's Forest Jobs and Recreation Act received rave reviews in Washington D.C. on Wednesday 

 

Senate hearing video - (6 minute) highlights  

 

"It's a heck of a deal.. it provides infrastructure not only for timber harvests, but also recreation, local economies and outfitters ......I think overall, you couldn't have done a better job,"  

Wally Congdon, Montana Cattlemen's Association 

 

"By performing needed restoration work, preserving our high mountain backcountries, guaranteeing recreational opportunities, protecting our clean water, hunting, fishing, grazing for livestock, protecting our communities from catastrophic wildfires, while preserving the wood products infrastructure that still remains. We see this as a win-win for all Americans who believe in the wise use of our national forests." 

Sherm Anderson Sun Mountain Lumber Co. President

 

 

"The bill will bring important jobs to Montana. It will allow significant mechanical and restoration work to be done. And it will bring new land into our national wilderness systems."

Harris Sherman, Undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment, Department of Agriculture

 

Add your comments today! 

   

Please submit your testimony to the official hearing record by June 8th

Talk about places that are important to you and your family and why you want them to be protected forever!

 

E-mail your testimony to: 

 

allison_seyferth@energy.senate.gov

         

 

 

 

For more information on the bill, click here 

 

 

Keeping the great in Montana's Great Divide  

Passage of the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act will forever protect wilderness along 500 miles of the Continental Divide:

 

 Centennial Mountains Wilderness

 Lima Peaks Wilderness

Italian Peaks Wilderness

West Big Hole Wilderness and Recreation Area

Expansion of Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness

Humbug Spires Wilderness

  Highlands Wilderness and Special Management Area

Electric Peak Wilderness and Thunderbolt Creek Recreation Area

 

Protect Montana's Shining Mountains

Passage will forever protect great snow-capped ranges of Southwest Montana:

 Snowcrest Wilderness

East Pioneers Wilderness

West Pioneers Wilderness and Recreation Area

Tobacco Roots Recreation Area

Dolus Lakes (Flints) Wilderness

Stony Mountain and Quigg Peak Wilderness

Ruby Mountains Wilderness

Sapphires Wilderness

 

Grow Montana's  Legends  

Passage will expand five legendary Montana wilderness areas

Lee Metcalf Wilderness

Mission Mountains Wilderness

Bob Marshall Wilderness

Scapegoat Wilderness

Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness

 

The Wild Yaak

Passage  will protect wild lands and wilderness-for the first time-in northwest Montana's lush Yaak River Valley with the Roderick Wilderness and Three Rivers Special Management Area 

 

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