From Center for Western Priorities <[email protected]>
Subject Look West: Montana voters support conservation, fear growth
Date May 5, 2022 2:02 PM
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** Montana voters support conservation, fear growth
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Thursday May 5, 2022
Sunset in Big Sky, Montana. Venture West, Wikimedia ([link removed])

A new poll ([link removed]) finds incredibly strong support for conservation in Montana, but Montanans are also worried their state is growing too fast.

The University of Montana Crown of the Continent and Greater Yellowstone Initiative released the poll, which found support is “the highest it has been” ([link removed]) for the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act in western Montana, at 83 percent this year. The act is a collaborative effort that would create 78,000 acres of wilderness ([link removed]) . The survey also found that 79 percent of voters think it’s important for Native American tribes to have a stronger role ([link removed]) in public land decisions. Notably, almost 100% of respondents ([link removed]) said allowing big game to move between summer and winter ranges was also important.

But Montanans are worried growth and development is changing their state. Montanans in every type of community count affordable housing as a serious problem ([link removed]) , according to the survey, and 57 percent believe the rate of growth and development in the state is too fast ([link removed]) .

“This survey confirms that Montanans are more concerned than ever about protecting our public lands, especially in the face of the high rate of growth and development in our state," Montana Wildlife Federation executive director Frank Szollosi said.


** Wild by Design
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Researcher and author Laura J. Martin came on the Center for Western Priorities' podcast ([link removed]) to talk about the rise of ecological restoration in the United States and how it led to today’s booming off-site environmental mitigation and carbon offset industries. Martin has a new book coming out May 17 on the subject called “Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration."
Quick hits


** America the Beautiful challenge grant application open, with $85 million to award
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Environment America ([link removed]) | E&E News ([link removed])


** This sweeping public lands bill is a mixed bag that could increase recreation, impacts
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Deseret News ([link removed])


** Billion-dollar donation launches Stanford climate school
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New York Times ([link removed]) | CNN ([link removed]) | San Francisco Chronicle ([link removed]) | Mercury News ([link removed])


** Biden seeks $500 million in Ukraine package to boost mining in US
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E&E News ([link removed])


** Satellite footage illustrates the scope of Western catastrophe
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New York Times ([link removed])


** Las Vegas says goodbye to grass thanks to new law
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New York Times ([link removed])


** New Mexico receives federal disaster declaration as wildfires burn
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Reuters ([link removed]) | Associated Press ([link removed])


** What qualifies as camping—and who is it for?
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The New Yorker ([link removed])
Quote of the day
” For countless generations, the Yurok people have upheld a sacred responsibility to maintain balance in the natural world. Condor reintroduction is a real-life manifestation of our cultural commitment to restore and protect the planet for future generations.”
—Yurok Tribal Chairman Joseph L. James, Associated Press ([link removed]'s%20coastal%20redwoods%20The%20endangered,in%20more%20than%20a%20century)
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** @LukeRunyon ([link removed])
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