Putting
the "Public" Back in "Public Trust"
Research,
technology, even activism incurs a cost.
EMWH needs your financial support to continue promoting the
Public Trust.
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Enhancing
Montana's Wildlife & Habitat
Kathryn QannaYahu Kern
924 11th Ave., Apt. 2
Helena, MT 59601
406-579-7748
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EMWH is a place where the
public can participate as they want, no artifical restrictions
or boundaries, or memberships - dynamic, thinking outside
the box.
EMWH is not just settling
for preserving what remains of our wildlife & habitat,
but envisioning the opportunities for Enhancing Montana's
Wildlife & Habitat, which includes healthy private lands,
for ourselves and future generations of Montanans!
Currently we have subscribers
from the following states: MT, ID, WA, OR, AK, WY, CO, UT,
NV, AZ, CA, TX, ND, SD, MN, WI, IL, IA, OH, SC, NC, VA,
FL, TN, MD, PA, MA, NY, NJ, MO, MS, IN
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Enhancing
Montana's Wildlife & Habitat
- EMWH advocates the Montana citizen's Constitutional
Right
of Participation and Right
To Know, empowering the Montanan public with their tools of
Public Process; as well as the oversight of stewardship agencies
to ensure transparency and accountability.
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Network - a network of
diverse individuals, with equally diverse backgrounds - all
Montanans (non-partisan conservationists, ethical hunters and
anglers, farmers and ranchers, wildlife advocates, wildlife
biologists, scientists, business owners, landowners, Native
Americans) united by a goal of enhancing Montana's wildlife
and habitat.
- Advocating the responsible "best available"
science based management/stewardship of our public resources,
respect for our wildlife, habitat, and healthy private lands -
a holistic approach to Montana.
- Advocating
for public access to our public lands and waters.
- Advocating for the Public Trust Doctrine
which establishes the management of land, wildlife, fish and waterways
for the benefit of the public and future generations.
- Advocating for ethical, fair chase hunting
as a tool of conservation and a right of the Public Trust Doctine
- the keystone component of the North American Model and Wildlife
Conservation.
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Western
Association Of Fish And Wildlife Agencies Resolution - The Public Trust
Doctrine
In Fish and Wildlife Conservation
The
North American Model of Wildlife Conservation - Technical Review 2012
The
Public Trust Doctrine - Implications For Wildlife Management and Conservation
in the United States and Canada, Technical review 2010
The
Public Trust Doctrine and Montana's Stream Access History
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EMWH, while founded
by Kathryn QannaYahu Kern, was the result of brainstorming with
respected ethical hunter conservationists and wildlife advocates,
who saw a need for boldly tackling issues, presenting the science,
economics, & facts; a collaborative process that would benefit,
while removing and mitigating some of the obstacles that wildlife
and habitat face.
Kathryn is a member
of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers and Great Old Broads For
Wilderness.
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"I was born and mostly raised
in Texas, married into an ag/ranching family. I understand and
respect private land ownership, but I also understand and advocate
for our joint public land ownership and public access rights to
those public lands and waters.
Raised Republican, in my early 20's
I became an Independent, voting on issues, rather than partisan
lines. I I apply that policy into Enhancing Montana's Wildlife
& Habitat work.
Coming from a state so heavily privatized,
a state with less than 2% federally managed public lands (a portion
of which is not aavailble to the public, such as the Department
of Defense and Native American Reservation lands), moving to Montana
in 2007, was culture shock. I had never heard of the Public Trust
Doctrine or the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation
before. Once I did hear about these ideologies in 2012, I heavily
researched, then began advocating the Public Trust."
Seeing a great need to get science,
data, law, news and at times the snarky editorial cartoon or artistic
inspiration into the hands of the public; to network these issues
for greater awareness and public participation, Enhancing Montana's
Wildlife & Habitat was born in 2013.
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