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Montana Congressional delegation’s public lands bait-and-switch

Peyton Olson| July 22, 2025| News

By Anne Hedges, Daily Montanan

Montana Environmental Information Center Executive Director Anne Hedges and her bird dog, Indie.

You can’t take your bird dog hunting on lands being mined or filled with oil rigs, even if they are “public” lands.

While Montanans were right to celebrate removing the sale of public lands from the recent Congressional budget bill, some may not know that our representatives still voted to put millions of acres of public lands on the chopping block. Selling public lands was just one of a dozen different ways that the billionaires’ budget bill privatized our public lands. Just try big game hunting, bird-watching, camping, hiking, or biking on public lands mined or fracked for corporate profit, and see how quickly you’re escorted away.

 

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