Buffalo Field Campaign Weekly Updates from the Field 2006/2007

The failed Yellowstone area buffalo hunt brought into focus some important issues: how easily Gov. Schweitzer caved on the hunt and the grit shown by FWP Commissioner John Brenden who voted to uphold the hunt and voiced that Montana is "succumbing to blackmail by anti-hunting forces."

Brenden spoke up for many Montanans who are weary of seeing the sport of hunting continually assailed by environmentalists. And there is little doubt that the 8,000 hunters who applied for the hunt have a belly full of the mythical fair chase hunting ethos advanced by these groups.

There is a growing sentiment that Montana is too easily driven by the whims of the environmental community and too often placates them rather then fight for what is right. We seem to be intimidated by special interest groups and cower when the threat of litigation is posed.

In legal circles of the West, Montana is considered the least successful in staving off the designs of the environmental community, and we seem to have no strategy to address the constant drumming we take from these groups. We simply cannot have our resource management plans driven by people who chain themselves to fence posts.

It's time Montana's leadership shows a little of the grit exhibited by Brenden and takes a more forceful stand in the management of our resources.

Gov. Schweitzer, are you listening?

Ron Poertner
Winifred

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