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By Kerry White

The Secretary of Agriculture, both Montana U.S. Senators, Governor Schweitzer, the Chairman of the Presidents Council on Environmental Quality and the head of the National Park Service where the featured guests at a gathering at the Rolling Stone Ranch outside Ovando Montana.
The event was held the day before the public listening sessions on the President’s new initiative, “America’s Great Outdoors”, billed as a new way to connect youth to the outdoors but in reality it’s a private property land grab resulting in further introduction of diseased wildlife and large carnivores to our Montana landscape.
The meeting came as a response to the leaked memos from the Department of Interior where the Treasured Landscapes Initiative was exposed as a back door scheme to create another 6.5 million acre National Monument in Montana. The emails show this project has been in the works for a long time.

We are facing truly challenging times ahead. I have often heard candidates speak of change, but the more I hear them, the more I hear the status quo. Plans such as government-controlled healthcare, higher taxes, mulitculturalism, expanding government employee benefits, invading our personal lives, and more, will all help to make the problems much worse. Government is not the solution to the problem, it is the problem.

If we truly value our liberty and independence, not just as a nation, but as individuals, we must take responsibility for our own lives. Allowing government to be our nanny is contrary to the principles on which this nation was founded. We must stand up and exercise our rights in order to restore and preserve them. If we remain complacent in where we are with ever-expanding government, those rights will be taken from us like the property of vacationers having their homes robbed.

Gary Marbut, President
Montana Shooting Sports Association

There was a time in Man’s evolution when he huddled around the nighttime fire gazing outward at the glowing ring of eyes – the predators who viewed man only as food. A few of these predators came in and joined Man at the fire and became dogs. Others remained outside and have always been wolves.

These early Men learned to build structures, not only to keep out the rain and the cold, but to protect Man and his weaker family members from the ever-present wolf, who circled warily and constantly, always ready to snatch as a meal any unwary member of Man’s family.

In fact, one might reasonably view Man’s entire development and creation of civilization as a process of fortifying against wolves, the chief among Man’s predators. So, the process of civilization has been a contest against wolves, with savagery and risk being at one end of the scale, and a complicated system and evolution of security being at the other.

By Jim Beers, USFWS

Dear Mr. Leahy & Mr. Robinson: I am in receipt of your letter of March 30, 2010. I will address your points factually and straightforward. We would be happy to meet with you to discuss conservation issues and the destruction of specific herds of elk in North America. We believe; however, that your organizations and others are contributing greatly to perhaps one of the worst wildlife management disasters since the destruction of bison herds in the 19th century. Until the lawsuit relative to re-listing the wolves is settled or until you withdraw your support for such, there really isn’t much need to meet as we continue to be at opposite ends of this issue. Once again, I will state that elk are not flourishing where wolves are present. Contrary to what you have suggested many times to claim otherwise is disingenuous and “cherry picking” data. Elk populations are being exploited at a high rate by predators, primarily wolves and somewhat by grizzly bears.

We pleaded that the Governor call in the CDC to quantify the damage,
educate the public as to the health risk, and train health care workers in all Montana hospitals to recognize, diagnose and treat echinococcus granulosus.
It will change forever how you feel about the wolf

By: Kelly Wood
Photo by Faith Malpeli

There are significant economic, health and safety ramifications of the Gray Wolf Introduction Program in Yellowstone Park that have manifested themselves in the Western States along the Rocky Mountain Front. A distinguished panel joins The All American Patriot to discuss these critical issues. The guests assembled for this roundtable are:

By Tim Fox


Four days before Christmas, shortly after 1 AM Washington D.C. time, Montana’s Junior Senator Jon Tester had the power, if not the courage, to stand up for the majority of his constituents against President Obama’s designs for health care.  Instead, he cast the deciding vote to end debate and move forward with the bill.