Meeting with the State of Montana About Access to Land
exploring our options, talking our alternatives, seeing what they think, making changes, inserting our input
Ryan Weiss, Public Access Specialist for the Dept. of Natural Resources
Our prospecting group of Lincoln gave him documentation of bad faith profiling by the USFS in regards to access to our claims along Poorman's Creek. Hopefully he is working on solutions and answers for our claim.
He has the position to make a difference and hopefully see the law in a different light other than from a dictatorship of the federal government. What good is public land without access to it.
Patrick Holmes, Policy Advisor for Natural Resources
He takes notes on issues of culvert removal, parking accommodations, and negotiations with the US Forest Service, May 7th in the capitol.
Hopefully our prospecting club will have assistance in dealing with the uncompromising USFS and we won't have to wait 6 months for a reply with no answers. Certainly policy advising would be: "KEEP ROADS OPEN!!" for fire protection.
Governor Steve Bullock Provides
A goal is to provide access to public lands, even to the prospector.
Meeting with his staff to address issues with the US Forest Service is one of the first steps in resolving issues. That's what the Blackfoot River Club did. Now we have to see about fire access for ground crews. USFS says they are closing access to thousands of acres off Stemple Pass because they say, "We don't need the roads because we use helicopters. Umm..not demonstrated last year when the ground crews were BIG!!!!. We need our roads open for safety & protection.
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