The Wilderness Sportsman

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WASHINGTON, D.C. n Montana’s Congressman, Denny Rehberg, today urged Montana’s multiple-use community to join him in opposing legislation, to designate the Northern Rockies as wilderness.

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The manufacture and sale of off-road vehicles is tremendously profitable, and the industry has been spending freely to oppose any effort to control the use of their machines on public lands in the West. The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance has collected scores of first-person horror stories about public places savaged by the machines in that state. It’s happening here. Drive out to the end of Quesenbury Road to the BLM land and look at the ATV tracks gouged in the fragile desert. The BLM posts signs there warning off-road vehicles NOT to carve new roads there. The ATV people pull them down.

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The three friends finally found themselves in an area where they could proceed neither up or down, so they scaled a 50-foot cliff for safety from potential flash floods on Saturday and began waiting for help.

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More than 100 volunteers came out to the Dolly Sods Wilderness area to help search for an autistic hiker who has been missing since Sunday afternoon.

Command Center spokesman Chris Stadelman says the large number of volunteers will allow today’s efforts to be in the form of a grid search, where the searchers line up in sight of the next person in line.

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FLORENCE, Wis., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ — In transactions that will protect unique and environmentally significant lands and waterways in northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, We Energies announced today that it has completed more than 2,500 acres of land sales to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and The Trust for Public Land (TPL).

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In an effort to reduce encounters between lions and people, a limited lion hunt will be allowed again this winter in the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area.

The big cats have never attacked a human in the Rattlesnake, but regular sightings in recent years have prompted a limited hunt to try to keep it that way.

Clearcuts make great breeding grounds for white footed mice, which are the primary carriers of lyme disease in ticks. Michigan continues it’s poor resource management:

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ESCANABA — The Ruffed Grouse Society and U.S. Forest Service have entered into a five-year partnership to improve upland game bird habitat in the Hiawatha National Forest.