What is a National Monument?
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National Monuments are a means of protecting public lands and wildlife. The distinction is that a Monument is protected by the President, not Congress. The Antiquities Act (something most Presidents (except for Donald Trump) have used to protect the Grand Canyon, Grand Tetons, and many other areas across America. George Bush created the largest ocean Monument in the Pacific during his tenure. The key to any Monument is a solid management plan, in the case of our proposed Monument, we want to make clear that this Monument is for wildlife and is key to protecting a vital wildlife corridor and protect many threatened and endangered species, including wolves, grizzlies, bison and wolverine.
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This would be the first monument created to ban trapping and the killing of predator species. Yet, many ocean monuments have been designed to protect fish species and ban commercial fishing.
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This is part of Bold Visions Conservation’s commitment to protecting public lands so wildlife can thrive!
The Madison-Gallatin Monument would effectively expand the Greater Yellowstone area's protection!
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Dear Members,
Bold Visions Conservation has taken the lead in creating a new National Monument along the Montana-Idaho border protecting the Gallatin Range. Our goal is to create the first Monument dedicated to wildlife. Meaning a Monument that does not allow trapping or the killing of any predator species. The area remains one of the most important wildlife corridors in the lower 48, and we are working to protect more than 1.6 million acres of land. The Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council, supports this proposal as do some key conservation groups that will announce soon. They are part of the important connection of traditional peoples to the land and wildlife.
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The two major National forests in our proposal are the Custer-Gallatin and the Caribou-Targhee. Both currently have shameful forest plans that are opening them to logging and excessive off-road and snowmobile usage.
We have mapped the area and written the biological reports mentioned. The time has come to protect this area to protect it from industrial logging, road construction, and the invasion of off-road vehicles.
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Please help us protect a vital unit of Yellowstone National Park and essentially grow the park to more than 3.8 million acres, allowing wolves, grizzlies, bison, and other wildlife species to thrive.
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This Monument is a way to protect vital keystone species and stop the push by wildlife agencies, trappers, and trophy hunters to control wildlife in Montana and Idaho.
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None of this comes cheap, but we are working to educate communities, members of Congress, and the President with staff in Washington, D.C.
PROTECTING MONTANA AND IDAHO PUBLIC LAND
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If we work to allow wildlife to thrive, then we must protect the lands they inhabit. Protection of lands comes in many forms: National Parks, Wilderness Areas, National Monuments, State Parks, etc.
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Having worked on many of these landscape protections, it is vital that we focus on protecting lands so wildlife can thrive! In Montana, Senator Daine’s, Congressmen Zinke and Governor Gianforte are no friends of public lands. Zinke, while self-dealing when he headed the Interior, has never supported public lands. During his tenure at Interior, he never saw a drill rig or mining project he did not support.
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Daines' voting record on the environment is closer to zero. He has publicly declared his desire to slaughter wolves and open a killing season on grizzlies, to remove all Wilderness Study Areas and open lands to snowmobiles and off-road vehicles.
Governor Gianforte has illegally killed a wolf near the Yellowstone border and allowed it to suffer in a trap for days. Gianforte also loves trapping wildlife.
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We can and must do better if wildlife is to thrive.
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We are building the coalitions needed to succeed and make land conservation a powerful wildlife story. We must work to protect vital areas that will expand Yellowstone’s boundaries.
There are many such areas in Montana, and Idaho thin rural areas that continue to push trapping. If we cannot get the Fish, Wildlife and Parks and other key agencies to stop the madness of trapping, then we must protect lands and not allow this mid-evil torture to continue, we must learn to co-exist with wildlife and not let these powers control our public lands. These are Americans public lands and America does not support Trapping.
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Be a voice for change, and help us make a difference in the protection of vital lands and wildlife!
Read Mike Bader's
Special Report:
Wildlife Resources in the
Madison-Gallatin-Henry's LakeIsland Park Geographic Region Montana and Idaho
REPORT
