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@theSOURCE406 She's a rich source. It's almost like picking on a cripple though.

Montana has a rich history of Idiots in politics.

@ryanpcooney I would have preferred this

Idiot test: Look at this coin. If you like it, you're an idiot. Test complete. usatoday.com/story/news/usa…

@rockymtnhighUT @RodeoProfessor Fun and punitive? Who pays for these parks? Who do these parks belong to? Not trying to be fun and punitive, just sensible. Foreign visitors comprise about 15% of the total load to Yellowstone.

@RodeoProfessor @Xanthipppe It sounds fun and punitive but it won’t solve the problems

I strongly encourage you, if you’ve never been to Yellowstone, not to let these doomer posts bum you out. You can go to Yellowstone at peak and not experience any of this, you come in via the Cooke City NE entrance early morning, watch thousands of animals (wolves, elk, prongs) in the Lamar Valley, which is your heritage as an American, see the park, and not see any of this clusterf*ck. Sometimes you have a bad visit and you hit a jam, have some snacks and huckleberry beers in the car, so what, it’s worth it. Don’t skip it because you see the worst aspects of a visit posted online. Now, with that out of the way, the thing about the National Park crowding in America is you basically have 4 options, and 0 of these 4 are things that people want or like. I’m going to put a poll in the replies and maybe you vote on the one you like for me? First is you have “ticketed timed entry,” so if you don’t book on Rec dot Gov 6 months out, sorry but you’re probably not getting in during peak season. This is in place at high demand parks like Arches or Going to the Sun Road in Glacier. These work well for people who can plan their lives 6 months + in advance, but you lose the spontaneous American summer road trip which is a big part of the culture. Also, gate employees are suffering from unprecedented harassment and turnover from people who pull up to get in, have no idea they need a booking, and go ham on the 20 year old GS5. Option two is some form of dynamic pricing, lots of economists put ideas out like this but the social justice equity people wail about it, and I get that, you want Americans to access public land regardless of how much they make. This is probably my preferred option though, if you want to go during peak, be prepared to pay. People aren’t ready for a mid June $500-1000 YNP entry fee though, so it’s probably not really feasible. I also don’t think that’s the purpose of entry fees per the statutes that authorize our National Parks so it would be tricky. Third option is what we have today, everyone can enter but some lots (Norris, Grand Prismatic) are going to be a massive thorn in the side. The roads and lots were all designed for demand 50-100 years ago. There’s always parking over by old faithful, and a nice bar in the Old Faithful Inn. There’s always somewhere neat to see that’s not doomered out. Fourth option is you’re required to leave your car and take the shuttle around. This is in place in Zion and some parts of Rocky Mountain up near Bear Lake. Americans (including myself) like our cars and don’t necessarily want to want 30 min for a shuttle after a 10 mile hike with a bunch of kids, but this is probably the future of Yellowstone. Vote your preference in the reply for me if you want to.

@ger_tzedek @RodeoProfessor Don't care, they should still pay a lot more than citizens.

@RodeoProfessor @Xanthipppe Don’t forget a lot of foreign tourists are coming in tour busses which greatly reduces their footprint in parking and gridlock

@LukasSchubertMT Thank you for pointing this out.

Wow, pay attention to the upcoming primary elections in Montana. We need to elect Montana-First conservative fighters, not establishment candidates being bankrolled by liberal entities!

I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country

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@RodeoProfessor Plutarch agrees. x.com/michaelcurzi/s…

@RodeoProfessor Guessing she has no kids. The older I get, the more I think that almost all of the problems of the modern woman are solved by having a healthy family with children and grandchildren.

There are really obvious tells when dealing with crazy people in the wildlife field. I once had a lady call me 100 times in one afternoon over an injured bird she named and turned in. She’d melt down when I wouldn’t “use the bird’s name,” (it was Trevor). They obsess over individual animals vs. populations (pops are what we manage by US law). The fangirl shirt plus the stuffed animal = this woman shouldn’t be in charge of her own lunch and is deranged by wildlife.

@theSOURCE406 Anybody can own shares in Bridger Aerospace (BAER). It's currently trading at just under 2 bucks a share.

Nice to have a Montana Senator that's an expert in Forest Fires and own's a Fleet of Water Bombers #Missoula #Butte #Helena #GreatFalls #Bozeman #Billings #Hamilton

@christopherrufo That was exactly how I felt about The Road. Never finished it, and didn't bother with Blood Meridian. My time is better spent not in that headspace.

I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.

@Matt_Pinner Dotty

Vintage old lady name for this DOG please

@RodeoProfessor Everything in California is corrupted. The high speed rail. Every public construction project. The homeless industrial complex. The home health care industrial complex. It's all designed to be stolen by corruptocrats. Everything in the state is squandered and stolen.

The impressive reporting on California wildlife crossings today shows the perils of allowing activists and parasitic NGOs to co-opt an otherwise successful management tool. Colorado’s White River National Forest has one of America’s largest elk herds & the State Hwy 9 wildlife crossing project has stopped 90% of elk and mule deer vehicle collisions. Same thing at Utah’s Hwy 89 underpasses for the iconic Paunsaugunt mule deer herd (one of the best herds to source a high quality buck in the world). Elk and mule deer undergo long seasonal migrations that make their corridors essential, but Colorado and Utah’s projects were completed and cost a small fraction of the California boondoggle ($2-14 m depending on the project). As Ken points out, we’ve been using these tools for well over 50 years to manage wildlife and save human lives.

@Anthony_406 @GovGianforte Bozeman is crazy. Look to it to become more dense with more problems. These laws may allow more housing but less desirability, for sure. I wish there was a way to prevent out of state/country investors.

@Xanthipppe @GovGianforte So the term "firms" may not have been entirely correct but the point is we are being sold out. A quarter of the homes in Bozeman are owned by non-residents and people who live and work in the MT economy cannot compete with someone who lives and works in the LA or Seattle economy

Today’s unanimous decision by the Montana Supreme Court is a landmark victory for hardworking Montana families & our work to increase the supply of affordable, attainable housing. In Montana, we will continue bringing the American dream of homeownership into greater reach.

These are the laws the MT Supreme Court upheld: Senate Bill 323 allowed duplex housing in city zoning. Senate Bill 528 allowed accessory dwelling units. Senate Bill 382 broadly reaffirms landowners’ rights to construct affordable starter homes, establishes pro-housing reform options local governments must select from to encourage housing development, and requires local governments to reform zoning regulations to meet future housing needs.

Not so, says Grok. "The 31% figure from the BatchData Q2 2025 Investor Pulse Report refers to the share of single-family homes in Montana that are investor-owned, meaning they primarily serve as rentals or short-term rentals. "This ownership is dominated by small investors—landlords with 1–50 properties hold 95% of all investor-owned inventory nationwide, while large investment firms (those with 1,000+ homes) control just 2% of it."

31% of homes in MT are owned by investment firms who most Montanans cannot compete with when it comes to buying a home. Allowing garage apartments does nothing for the dream of home ownership. Prioritizing the people of Montana over out of state investors would, but Gianforte's people, the ones he supports, are out of state investors, not Montanans

@Richard34436216 @MTGOP Agreed. Interesting article, thanks.

@Xanthipppe @MTGOP They could control the narrative of corner crossing simply by codifying legislation that will help them control how it is instituted. When this ends up in the 9th district they will surely rule in favor of the public. Source: MeatEater share.google/BQZKB5NdtxtzSw…

The GOP in Montana supports private control of public corner crossing sections by saying ownership goes from heaven to hell, in other words below the Earth's surface to the sky. Kind of seems like the strait of Hormuz control ideology by Iran for personal self-interest .

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