MissouriBreaks

The Friends of the Missouri Breaks are dedicated to protecting and preserving the Upper Missouri Breaks Monument in Central Montana.

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Join us tonight at 6PM at the Golden Triangle Brew Co. in Fort Benton to try an awesome new beer and join the conversation about how you would like to see our state grow in the coming years in terms of outdoor resources! #outdoorheritage #goldentrianglebrew

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Urgent Call to Action on the Lewistown RMP - https://t.co/0ZEY0XYulo

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"I’ve just started noticing cottonwood seeds in the air again — the bits of white fluff that bounce around on the breeze. It seems impossible that big, beautiful cottonwood trees can grow from such insubstantial beginnings."

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"Republicans and Democrats pushed back against the Department of the Interior Tuesday, trying to secure funding for popular land conservation program cut under President Trump’s budget."

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"President Trump has made eliminating federal regulations a priority. His administration, with help from Republicans in Congress, has often targeted environmental rules it sees as burdensome to the fossil fuel industry and other big businesses."

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"Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has assigned a controversial attorney and well-known private property rights advocate involved in numerous legal clashes with the agency to temporarily fill a top post."

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"The superintendent said it appears someone was standing on a stool or chair based on how high up the marking appears on the monolith. She asks anyone with information...to call 888-653-0009 or submit an anonymous tip at https://t.co/efXLSLwbmZ."

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"Dan and Farris Wilks, a pair of wealthy Texas businessmen who own thousands of acres of Idaho land, have installed a gate across a Forest Service route through their property, prompting concerns over public land access."

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"The Pew Charitable Trusts and local organizations...conducted an inventory of the 750,000 acres overseen by the Lewistown Field Office for their wilderness characteristics and identified the same 200,000 acres as meriting protection."

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"Interior Secretary David Bernhardt revealed yesterday that before he anoints a new headquarters location for the Bureau of Land Management, he wants to review each of the 500-some jobs to determine which posts should be excised from the nation's capital"

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""When you look nationwide there's not any place that we're really at a fire season. Fire season is not an appropriate term anymore," Christiansen said in an interview with NPR at the agency's headquarters in Washington."

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"For the third time in three years, Sen. Jon Tester held a rally for a bill he’s sponsoring to expand federally designated wilderness in northwest Montana, and allow some snowmobile and mountain bike use on public lands in the area."

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"Trumpeter swans have built a nest in a western Montana wildlife refuge...Reintroduction efforts began decades ago after the swan population was decimated by hunters and feather collectors."

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The BEST friendships are the ones that make a difference. We're proud to be part of @ConservationLF’s Friends Grassroots Network - 70 community-based groups in 11 states that protect our public lands, sacred cultural landscapes, wildlife habitat & more. Happy #BestFriendsDay!

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"To encourage visitation to America’s public lands, the BLM will waive recreation-related fees for visitors to agency-managed public lands on three additional dates through the remainder of 2019: June 8...September 28...and November 11."

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"The Trump administration proposed smoothing the way Tuesday for more prospecting and mining of dozens of minerals, including on public lands and even in the oceans, calling them essential to the U.S. economy and security."

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"Most of the coal mined and burned in the area comes from land leased by the federal government, and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe wants a voice in how the land, water, atmosphere and community is affected by federal coal leasing policies."

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"The data show conservation rollbacks accelerated globally in the 21st century. In Brazil, 48% of rollbacks were proposed between 2010 and 2017, mostly for hydropower dams. In the United States, 90 percent of rollbacks were enacted since 2000."

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"The...BLM, which has been working with TNC and other public and private partners to maintain and improve public access to the area ..., released an Environmental Assessment of the proposed acquisition and opened a 30-day public comment period today."

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"For as long as we have celebrated our national parks, individuals from all walks of life, conservation organizations, business leaders and elected officials have joined together to speak up for these priceless places."

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