Ep. 153 - The MT Legislature, The Weed Tax, and The Conservationists

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 170 minutes

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BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 153: The MT Legislature, The Weed Tax, and The Conservationists

Montana's legislature meets for only 90 days every two years, but the amount of work that goes into a single abbreviated session is mind-blowing. In just a few short months during its 2023 session, more than 200 bills dealing with fish and wildlife management, public access, conservation funding, and fair chase hunting and fishing opportunities will have been introduced and considered in Helena. On this week's Podcast & Blast, we sit down with Jake Schwaller and John Sullivan of the Montana BHA board and Kevin Farron, BHA regional policy manager, to discuss a few of these bills, how best to make your voice heard, and why BHA members from across the country need to stay vigilant and engaged when the sausage is being made in their own state. Join us as we explore what Costco has to do with Montana's new pheasant stocking program, how nonresidents who own land in Montana will be given up to five deer and elk tags, and how recreational marijuana is funding - or was funding - the state's best conservation tool: Habitat Montana.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, thanks for being here.
0:02.6	Hey, this is Hal Herring, Back Country Hunters and Anglers podcast and Blasts.
0:07.5	This is kind of an intro. We've got a podcast a day that's very Montana--centric but I want to encourage people to
0:14.5	hang around get what you can it's a very backcountry hunters and anglers
0:18.2	Montana-centric kind of thing about the Montana legislature.
0:22.9	And the reason I would encourage anybody across the country
0:25.8	to hang around here for this, get what you can,
0:28.8	is that after having probably the best kind of record as own hunting opportunity and
0:37.0	restoration of wildlife and all of the kind of things public land issues that
0:42.0	concern American outdoors men and women.
0:45.2	Montana's in the throes of change and it is in the throes of both demographic and
0:50.8	political changes and those things, of course, are inextricable.
0:57.0	So if you would hang around and listen,
0:59.8	take what you can from this kind of tumultuous and very fascinating time in Montana's history and see if
1:08.8	it doesn't extrapolate to what you see across the United States,
1:13.1	trending and coming and somewhat,
1:16.8	I would say in the past, but I don't think we've
1:19.3	seen anything quite like this before.
1:22.3	As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it does often rhyme.
1:27.0	In this case, I'm not sure what the song is.
1:31.0	It makes it very interesting, very interesting time to be involved in these issues.
1:35.0	Montana and Montana BHA and back country hunters and anglers is front and center in these issues.
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