AnyFin Goes Paddlefish Episode: https://youtu.be/eGl77qycGzU
This week we’re talking about a few recent headlines concerning public land and public access.
We give a quick update from a weekend of paddlefish fishing along with picking up a few catfish.
For news we have updates on the Wyoming corner crossing case and how Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks reacted to the ruling of the case.
An update on the Colorado court case concerning an angler suing a private landowner in hopes to improve public water access in the state and potential change stream access laws.
Montana Wildlife Federation, Montana Wild and Montana Association of Counties are suing in an attempt to let lawmakers vote to override Governor Greg Gianforte’s veto of SB 422.
Waterfowl hunting has been suspended at Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge due to staffing shortages.
Ticks may be a disease vector for Chronic Wasting disease, a new research study finds.
For the Deeper Dive we discuss the recent announcement of a potential change to Federal Land leasing that would put conservation organizations on a level playing field for bidding on leases such as oil, gas, wind, solar, and cattle grazing. We also touch on the new ruling where the EPA no longer has jurisdiction over certain waters.
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I work in Oil & Gas here in Canada along with Hunters no one funds more conservation and remediation than anyone including the government
Not a fan of "snagging" as you call it or "ripping" as it is known in Scotland. I wonder how this form of "hunting" aligns with Shane Mahoney's ethics and welfare of taking a wild harvest as set out in your long form video yesterday. .
No judgement, just curious.
Always interesting to watch, listen and start to understand other hunting, shooting and fishing cultures.
Really interesting to see the potential for ticks to be a vector for CWD or other transmittable diseases between ungulates. Ticks are at plague proportions here in the UK as we haven't had a proper winter since 2011.
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OH MY NOT MY Back yard reporter interviewed man at his yard in city about immigration said absolutely yes they should be able to walk right in so reporter said thank you this is ???? he needs to use your bathroom and place to stay thank-you and man yells no wait NOT AT MY HOUSE 😏
I trust the Oil/Gas industry more than
the government and most conservation entities… Certainly more than anyhting funded by a programming executive from Washington.
Don’t forget that cows reduce wildfire fuel and the subsequent erosion that can happen after a burn. People always want to complain about the rancher selling to developers but I don’t see anyone stepping up to pay $100 for a steak in the grocery store, of which the major profit of that steak would still go to someone other than the rancher. If you want the ranchers to help manage the forest and provide surface water and cultivated crops in the low lands for the deer and elk to winter on, then the rancher needs to be more profitable.
Ranches are selling to developers because their kids aren’t coming back to the ranches and farms. Bottom line if ranchers and farmers were more profitable then less would sell out.
I think this potential change could be a really interesting change to the leasing landscape. I'd like to see the same happen here in BC, Canada for Forestry leasing, could be a good way to keep putting a price on lumber with leasing prices but conserving it instead of harvesting it.
Don’t just blame golf courses the home owner with their lawn fertilizer is probably worse
I was fishing for walleye and caught a couple paddle fish so technically you can catch them fishing 🎣
Hayduke lives!
Another possible negative result is out of state billionaires bidding to lease up the public land keeping locals out. Hunting is conservation. Of course Montana is a free range state so if you dont fence the lease cattle can graze it.
Thanx
Thank you Marcus and Randy for sharing this great information. Gods Blessings guys.
Randy I did a lifetime membership with RMEF
I believe the Court ruling stated that surface connection of flow to a stream or river was required for it to be protected wetland. Pretty sure navigability is not the issue or a requirement.
My problem with Colorado, they restrict any pond building on private property as well as any diversion of any water flow across private properties. This stance has me feeling that in this area the state feels like it owns all water flowing anywhere within the state. So why if the streams are public property to control but not to fish for the public.
I don’t want anyone on my land to fish, however if they are going to float through.
You need the grazing on public for the health of the grasses.
Sacketts were NOT filling in a wet land. They were filling in an area adjacent to a wet land. To be considered a wet land there must be 3 criteria met. A certain type of soil, a certain plant, and water present 2 weeks of the year. All 3 must be present to be a wetland.