Buffalo Lakes in the Badger-Two Medicine (photo by Gene Sentz)
Last week, he reintroduced the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act. This week, Sen. Tester introduced a Senate resolution calling on Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to uphold the Interior Department’s commitment to the Blackfeet Nation and defend its cancellation of oil and gas leases in the Badger-Two Medicine.
Tester introduced the resolution because the Department of the Interior under David Bernhardt reneged on a commitment that Secretary Sally Jewell and later Secretary Ryan Zinke made to the Blackfeet to keep oil and gas development out of the Badger.
The headwaters of the Clearwater River (Lee Boman)
Today. Sen. Jon Tester announced that he's reintroducing the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act, which would add nearly 80,000 acres to the Bob Marshall, Scapegoat, and Mission Mountains Wilderness Areas.
Hiking in the Quigg West Wilderness Study Area east of Hamilton (photo by Zack Porter)
In its preferred management alternative, the BLM would protect zero acres of land that have been identified as having wilderness characteristics.
Dovetail, a land with wilderness characteristics not protected in the 2019 Lewistown RMP (photo by Aubrey Bertram)
The Interior Department trashed that original version of the RMP and its recommendations, which came about after a transparent public process that included local input, citizen surveys, and a healthy regard for what makes this part of Montana special.
Hyalite Canyon (Michael Beckworth)
Mountaineer and climber Anne Gilbert Chase shares why icy alpine starts, sunrises and sunsets atop towering peaks, and sore muscles after a long day of adventure have motiovated her to comment on the Custer Gallatin National Forest plan.
The Hyalite-Porcupine-Buffalo Horn Wilderness Study Area in the Gallatin Range (photo by Louise Johns)
MWA will work diligently towards ensuring that the legislative committee addressing our WSAs adheres to a set of principles laid down in a letter to our Congressional delegation, which was signed by more than 3,000 Montanans last year.
