Fielder’s Public Lands Ploy Hurts Montana
Montanans recognize a snake oil salesman when we see one
BY EMMON SNYDER AND JOHN SULLIVAN
FEB 18, 2016
Sen. Jennifer Fielder, of Trout Creek, is failing to serve Montanans by embracing the radical, anti-government cause of the Bundy militia, which has been occupying a national wildlife refuge in Oregon ...
... Fielder is peddling a version of the Bundy debacle that depicts Bundy and his ilk not as the vandals and criminals they are but instead as victims and heroes, regular folk who were pushed over the edge. This distasteful rhetoric suits the interests of Fielder, who has made no secret of her goal to legislate “transfers” of public lands to state and private interests; it also reflects the mission of the American Lands Council, Fielder’s new employer (she recently was hired as ALC’s CEO). This out-of-state conflation of lawyers and ideologues just plain hates national forests, national parks and national wildlife refuges and claims them unconstitutional.
We can speculate about their motives, but one fact remains crystal clear: What the Bundys are trying to do by intimidation and force, Fielder and ALC are trying to do via lawsuits and politics.
For Montanans and other Americans who love the outdoors, their tactics pose a special threat. They want to destroy our public lands heritage, including the places where millions of Americans hunt and fish ...
http://flatheadbeacon.com/2016/02/18/fielders-public-lands-ploy-hurts-montana/
