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Thomas Baumeister

Montana land swaps grow more political, less protective | Opinion

According to OnX, Montana has more than 1.5 million acres of inaccessible state lands. Many of these are acres that hunters, anglers and recreationists can't get to, and may be less profitable for the state. Land swaps — or trades of isolated state parcels for private lands elsewhere

Bison, bureaucrats and bad politics | Thomas Baumeister

In Montana, our way of life starts with the health of the land. When the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposes to yank bison grazing permits from American Prairie’s allotments, after years of treating bison as eligible livestock, it turns its back on that land ethic. For decades, the