John,

It's Saturday in Montana, which means a lot of you are somewhere with no cell signal right now — upland bird hunting, on a creek that runs clear because no road was ever cut above it, in country that looks the way it did a hundred years ago.

I'm writing because Washington has put a vendetta to take away the lands we love to share.

Last month the Trump administration moved to rescind the Roadless Rule entirely — the protection that has kept undeveloped national forest free of roads, logging, and mining since 2001. In Montana, that's nearly 6 million acres, about 37% of all the Forest Service land in this state, including roughly 95,000 acres in the Crazy Mountains alone.

I am running for Senate to be a voice to protect Montana from this attempted selloff. So I’m asking you to chip in $3 to send an independent to Washington who will stand up for the country you spend your Saturdays enjoying.

They say the rollback is about wildfire. But more than 30 forest scientists publicly rejected that reasoning.

What it actually does is open millions of acres of Montana to bulldozers and clear-cuts, in the same year the administration is hollowing out the Forest Service and collapsing Region 1 in Missoula, which has protected these forests for over a century.

Theodore Roosevelt protected roughly 230 million acres because he believed public land should never go to the highest bidder. This administration has moved to strip protections from more than 86 million.

Montana's constitution guarantees every one of us a clean and healthful environment, for every generation still to come. Our public land is the one thing left that a working family and a wealthy one own in equal measure.

Chip in $3 or more right now and help me protect Montana's common ground.

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— Seth Bodnar