Nor is Rep White's partisan WSA resolution ramrodded through the legislature in the face of mostly public opposition.
Environmental organizations pursuit of Wilderness Study Areas divided the collective "Public" within the once unified "Public Lands in Public Hands" banner.
The outdoor industry's economically supported public is far better off with the original collection of information that has been completed rather than open a whole new can of worms and further divide the public.
I read Don's Guest Column in the Missoulian as well as Kubista's opinion piece.
The WSA issue, from my perspective, is better served to accept as already scientifically studied.
The further the issue extends, the further the divide.
But hey, just one HT member's opinion.
Sytes, 'don't think the recommendations of 1977 which Congress has failed to act on could be characterized as "scientific studies", but even if so there is an argument that many changes have occurred since that would warrant another analysis and updated recommendations. The real tipping point regarding the recent bills proposed for completely discarding protections for those lands came for me when Gianforte and Daines began alluding to public access as more roads and vehicle access and seemed to completely disregard any access for hiking, hunting, camping and using those lands for recreation, which ironically has come to the forefront as the leading economic driver for Montana.
