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[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

@mehdirhasan Wait are you saying it's wrong to demand people compensate others for an atrocity they had nothing to do with?

What a concept

[RodeoProfessor @RodeoProfessor]

Anytime you talk about predator management on X you have a bunch of rad lib commenters (from states without grizzlies) saying things like “whatever will we do without “white men” managing predators!” That’s been the NGO line of attack for decades, that any predator management is a white, colonial oppression thing. See screen shot for a silly example.

This is classic lib dissembling/pretending not to understand things. When you have populations of large predators that can eat and kill people and our animals, you’ll have some that present real risk to human lives that either need to be lethally removed or someone will die.

This data from the Director of Wyoming Game and Fish is particularly interesting. If the grizzly were to be delisted from the Endangered Species Act (it cannot be because coastal city NGOs have unlimited money for lawsuits from opaque networks of private foundations) management would go to the state agency.

The state agency then makes a science based management plan that adapts over time and focuses on goals like population sustainability. Thousands of hours of scientific personnel time go into data for things like population monitoring (field surveys, radio collars, DNA hair snares, estimating trends like mortality, sex/age ratios in the population, reproduction rates, etc). The big focus for grizzlies has always been females with cubs.

Then, scientists use state of the art quantitative models to show how many can be removed given the amount of conflict with people in the state, age/sex/reproduction targets, survival/mortality, carrying capacity of habitat, and so on. Grizzlies reproduce really slowly so the focus here is on protecting females with cubs with limited harvest of males in high conflict prone areas.

Diseases, overall ecosystem goals, multi state agreements, total allowed mortality across the entire ecosystem are also considered with the model outputs.

In addition to the science and modeling, public input is required by law. Public comment, reviews with local biologists, review by the Game Commission and so on are required at various points for setting a hunting season all before a small fixed number of tags are allocated and issued via lottery.

WY Game and Fish estimates they’d issue about 20 tags using this process, and lo and behold, they’re doing about 21 lethal removals a year for situations where grizzlies might kill a guy. This whole process would be a lot cheaper and easier if we just let scientists and wildlife management institutions work as we designed them, and hunters take 20 problem bears without people who aren’t from here wetting their pants, but the DC and SF NGOs have hundreds of lawyers suing us every waking moment of the day. Go scroll through the personnel of the Center for Biological Diversity and see how many lawyers and campaigners they have on staff. Then go look at your favorite wildlife NGO like DU or RMEF. You’ll see on our side most people are volunteers.

[RodeoProfessor @RodeoProfessor]

When an REI lib tries to tell you that American hunters and anglers aren’t ackshully the ones paying for fish and wildlife conservation they’re citing a very famous activist “study” called the Molde study that was published around 2015 to demoralize hunters and take away your power to make wildlife decisions in your state.

The Molde study is an activist NGO report that states its own explicit purpose: lessening decision-making power of hunters and anglers on state wildlife commissions. The aim to do this despite the fact that hunters and anglers are the largest financiers of fish and wildlife conservation activities through excise gear taxes and licenses (under the North American Model of wildlife conservation).

The Molde study always comes up in mountain lion contexts because one mountain lion NGO pushes it really hard in their online material and the AI platforms prioritize it in this context.

The Molde study has a lot of fatal flaws beginning with the fact that it was bought and paid for by an NGO that’s explicitly anti predator hunting. The study states in its opening pages that it’s less rigorous research than it is an activists tool to fight hunter influence on wildlife commissions. That’s what we call a conflict of interest in research but activist extremist NGOs don’t care about that and AI lookups treat it with the same priority as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s data.

Then, the methodology is a farce, it counts the entire American land management agency budget line for agencies like the BLM and Forest Service as contributions of “non hunting taxpayers” to conservation, even though large parts of the budgets of some of these agencies have nothing to do with wildlife. They also don’t attribute all excise taxes on guns and ammo to hunters, not using self reported sale data, but just taking a guess of who not to include.

I could go on, but long story short, when an REI American tells American hunters and anglers they’re not ackshully paying for wildlife conservation, they’re trying to demoralize you with activist nonsense and your response should be to go buy more ammo or soft plastics or flies.

[KC NoDak Brim 🇺🇸 @brim006]

You think getting tags in western ND is hard now, wait until all the BLM land is gone soon thanks to fraud @RepFedorchak. When you finally get a tag you won’t have anywhere to even hunt.

[KC NoDak Brim 🇺🇸 @brim006]

Anyone know if any of them have responded to the public on this bill yet today or yesterday? Guessing not but just curious

[KC NoDak Brim 🇺🇸 @brim006]

@RepFedorchak @SenJohnHoeven @SenKevinCramer

H.R. 2252 is yet another betrayal to American outdoorsmen. And in this case specifically, to North Dakota outdoorsmen. This time, not only is our delegation in favor of it, they’re actually sponsoring it, driving it, and hoping the major negative implications stay quiet until it’s already a done deal.

After the backlash to Mike Lee’s land‑sale proposal, they know exactly how their North Dakotans constituents feel about losing public access. And because this bill applies only to North Dakota public lands, the responsibility is theirs alone this time around.

What the bill actually does:
It shifts roughly 37,000 acres of already limited BLM land in ND into state trust status, which is a system built around revenue generation, not public access. Under that framework, public access will inevitably get cut off.

North Dakota has less than 10% public land to begin with, and this bill hands over more than half of BLM land in ND. So we can say goodbye to many hunting units in ND that rely on public land access.

Reach out to Fedorchak, Hoeven and Cramer and tell them to withdraw the bill.

https://t.co/K6jXnBFa8U

[Joe Kinsey @JoeKinseyexp]

Moose delay tonight at a high school golf meet in Crosby, North Dakota (via Dillon L.)

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@Jomboy_ Scored with a yellow ball. Signed a white ball.

[Preston Battle @pbattle__]

(2/2) A few months later I crafted a custom, “Pat McAfee Show” themed helmet, which I was told would also be displayed on his set. Watched every day for weeks and it never appeared. Then one day I was scrolling eBay and saw this, LOL. I pieced this helmet (and the first one) together entirely out of pocket, to be gifted to someone I looked up to- but he signed the helmet and they listed it for $1,500, and said it included a COA (which I certainly didn’t make). I guess they needed the $, this was before the show really popped off 🤷‍♂️ Over 5 years later, have no idea where this thing even is. There’s a lesson in there somewhere. But oh well.

[Fastbreak Hoops @FastbreakHoops5]

Asking someone from the audience to come tell a joke and he absolutely nailed it 🤣

[ThatsGoodSports @BrandonPerna]

Warriors come out to playyyyyyyyyyyy.

I tried to tell the Patriots they were quoting the losers from that movie

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@BillSimmons It’s gonna be ok, bill

[Chris Vanderveen (yep…me) @chrisvanderveen]

The sad fact remains

No matter the scandal…no matter the enormity of the story…

…we now live in a country where 1/2 will believe it’s a billion times worse than watergate…

…and the other half will yawn or believe it’s disinformation

The system is now set up for this

[Tracie Halvorsen @TracieHalvorsen]

Back in November 2024 the BLM contacted my father and said they were going to do a “land swap” for the mineral rights on my father’s land with the State of Utah. Particularly the parcels labeled in purple and numbered 23 and 24 pictured in this post. We protested it. Now fast forward to June 2025. He receives a letter saying they are initiating trespass proceedings for the 400 foot road (the tiny white line) he uses to access those same parcels they were “land swapping.” Threatening him with $1,000 fine, 12 months in jail, or both. Now he could get out if the trespass proceedings if he agreed to “apply” to use the road to access his land by paying application fees of about $4,000 and pay an annual rental fee.

The BLM does not own the land (it’s shaded in red). WE THE PEOPLE own that land for our enjoyment and use. Now can someone go out and destroy it? No. But they cannot trespass you for using it.

The land pictured has vested easement rights. Its land locked by public (shaded red), private (shaded purple), and the illegally acquired State land (shaded green). And by the BLM’s own an administrative rules, an easement is an authorized use.

They have agreed to stop the trespass proceedings while my father sues them for the illegal shake down they just did. But I don't know what the Utah mafia will do. The judge assigned is a Mike Leavitt appointed judge.

You can read the complaint ➡️https://t.co/NSXAfeD8Nj

@braxton_mccoy @realDonaldTrump @gale_kc @phil_lyman @SophieAnde49073 @HarmeetKDhillon @AGPamBondi @JDVance @TulsiGabbard @disagreebutter @DChadwickAuthor

#2025theyearofaccountability

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@SenMikeLee Thank you. Let’s remember this for the future when you or your friends want to sell public land.

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@SenMullin Leave public land alone.

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@SecretaryBurgum @POTUS Stop trying to sell public land.

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@BasedMikeLee Stop trying to sell public land.

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@BasedMikeLee @elonmusk Leave public land alone.

[MeatEater @MeatEaterTV]

The Senate’s voting today.

This is the moment. No time to ease up. No time to assume someone else will make the call.

Dial [phone] and tell your senators: public lands belong in public hands.

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@SenMikeLee @BasedMikeLee @LeaderJohnThune