Crazy Mountains
March Public Meeting
Will the Historical
Crazy Mountain Trail System Survive Another Generation?
More importantly,
will Trail #267 survive the next year?
Update: Is the FS
recent Scoping Process, intiated for 30 days, beginning
March 1st,
as a Categorical Exclusion (CE), instead of an EA or EIS, illegal,
since there is a Memorandum of Understanding and Conservation
Agreement between various federal and state agencies on Yellowstone
Cuts. YCT are a Species of Concern by the State of Montana and
a Sensitive Species by the USFS. How can the Forest Service
not do an EIS on a trail relocation that will cross 4 creeks
with YCT, when their own NEPA manual states,
"Resource
conditions that should be considered in determining whether
extraordinary circumstances related to a proposed action warrant
further analysis and documentation in an EA or an EIS are:
(1) Federally listed threatened or endangered species or designated
critical habitat, species proposed for Federal listing or proposed
critical habitat, or Forest Service sensitive species;
(2) Flood plains, wetlands, or municipal watersheds;"?
Porcupine Road - West Side Crazy Mountains
National Forest
photo by Kathryn QannaYahu
It has been almost a whole generation of
public access obstruction on your 100+ year old historic Crazy
Mountains Trail System.
Just as no one expects a private landowner
to give up their historic water rights, the public landowners
should know our deeded and historic prescriptive access rights
without a fight!
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Would you like your access
restored for your and future generations?
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Do you want your Federal
public land managers responsive to our public, multiple use,
and public trust resource needs?
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How can we effectively
advocate for our Crazy Mountain public lands & access?
Please join us for a free,
open, transparent Public Meeting involving the West Crazy Mountains,
including a general Crazy Mountain access overview.
March
13, 2018, 6-8 PM
Please come early, meeting will start promptly at 6 PM.
Yellowstone Pioneer Lodge, Yellowstone Conference Room
1515 W. Park Street, Livingston, MT
406-579-7748, Event Contact: Kathryn
If you are coming from out
of town, the Yellowstone Pioneer Lodge (406-222-6110) is offering
a special location event rate discount of 20%.
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Guest Speakers, Presentations,
Video Tour, recent landowner Trail #267 relocation scoping
process and upcoming southern Crazy Mountains land exchange,
Prescriptive Easements.
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Q & A, open mic
- Informational resources, maps, history,
FS NEPA process, Forest Service contacts, Yellowstone Cutthroat
Trout info.
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Informational resources,
maps, history, NEPA Process, Forest Service contact information
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Crazy Mountains User Survey
will be available to the public.
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Media, elected officials
and legislators welcome.
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Coffee, tea & refreshments
will be provided.
Event sponsored by Friends
of the Crazy Mountains and Enhancing Montana's Wildlife &
Habitat.
For more information contact:
Brad Wilson, FOCM, friendsofthecrazymountains@gmail.com
Kathryn QannaYahu, EMWH, kathryn@emwh.org
Agenda
- Public Meeting will be professionally
video recorded
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Introductions
- Brad Wilson (FOCM), A Century of
Crazy Mountain use, Park County roads & Deputy Sheriff,
Habitat Security.
- Attorney Tim Callahan, Prescriptive
Easements, FS Wonder Ranch Case and 1948 FS Big Timber
Canyon Road Case.
- Kathryn QannaYahu (EMWH), Crazy
Mountain Historical Information & Forest Service
Recorded Positions; Maps & 3D Video Map Tours of
Trails #267, #195 & #268, Proposed FS/Zimmerman
#267 Obliteration and Relocation Proposal;
- US Forest Service NEPA Process;
Retired US Army Corps of Engineers, John Daggett's Statement;
Conservationist Phil Knight Crazy Mountain wildlife
survey information; Categorical Exclusions; FS "Sensitive
Species" Wolverines and Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout;
Ungulate Habitat Security; FS Public Comment Talking
Points.
- Where do we go from here? Crazy
Mountain Officials Contact Information, MT Park County
Fuel Tax Maps, Railroad Grant Public Access and Right-of-Ways
Research, Montana Laws - Display of Unauthorized Signs,
Crazy Mountain Survey.
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Friends
of the Crazy Mountains citizen organization
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Enhancing Montana's
Wildlife & Habitat
www.EMWH.org
Have you
been in the Crazy Mountains?
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For
event or additional information please contact:
Kathryn QannaYahu, EMWH, kathryn@emwh.org
406-579-7748
or
Brad Wilson,
FOCM, friendsofthecrazymountains@gmail.com |
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