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Our ancestors conquered America, you have a moral obligation to defend it. That includes the land and our people.

@braxton_mccoy @HarmlessYardDog Stolen IP

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I enjoy listening to theological debates on YouTube and have gotten a lot out of them over the years. But sometimes I don't know how these guys do it. Just the same objections repacked and delivered over and over again. The patience requirement is next level.

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@braxton_mccoy That’s not where you’re dangerous. Anyone can outrun a shinless cripple with bent rods in his body. 1000yds out, though…

@Sagebrush_Inst We will be in the same room again at some point. Just want to remind you pf that.

@f_gantry depends on applicant quality

@Sagebrush_Inst Large cowboy hat included, or no?

Sagebrush is looking to hire a sensitive young man (or woman) to work directly with the President and Board to help coordinate our national grassroots network. No credentials required, but competence is mandatory. If you’re interested, email a resume to Phil (email below.)

Of course this DNC account punts what this debate is actually about, here’s an easy to follow overview for you. The controversy focuses on an NGO called the American Prairie Foundation with a bison herd on public land (BLM) in Northeast Montana (note this is different from the famous Yellowstone herd that you may have visited on a family trip). To obtain a grazing permit on BLM, this isn’t auctioned off at market. Instead, it’s a preference system linked to ownership of a nearby property (called a “base property”). American Prairie is a relative newcomer who acquired BLM preference for grazing allotments by purchasing deeded ranches adjacent to BLM land. Then, they asked the BLM to modify their grazing permits to include bison. The BLM did an environmental impact assessment and approved bison in 2022, which was just revoked at the request of Montana lawmakers and ranching families in the state. The reason ranching families, stockgrowers, and Montana lawmakers do not want American Prairie to run their conservation focused bison herd on BLM land begins with the fact that to purchase deeded ranches and obtain eligibility for BLM grazing, American Prairie got piles of cash from foreign and out of state donors. As a donor funded foundation, most of its cash comes from a Swiss born billionaire, a German billionaire, and high net worth individuals from NYC and SF. How would a regular rancher from Montana compete with that to purchase the ranches that would lead to preference for BLM? How would a 21 year old seventh generation rancher compete? When this NGO buys these deeded ranches, the associated grazing rights on BLM are automatically transferred. Montana ranchers and politicians also oppose buffalo on BLM parcels because of the risk of disease transmission to livestock, and an overarching belief that Montana has been ranching for food production for centuries, newer conservation interests backed by non-local cash undermine the long, rich heritage of the state. On the other side of the debate is American Prairie with a noble mission to restore the mighty bison to American grasslands to promote biodiversity, focusing on native grasslands and fauna. This is a group focused on what’s called “rewilding” or returning the land to its pre human state, with the buffalo as a powerful symbol of the American frontier. Proponents argue that as a keystone species, buffalo have many ecological benefits that make our great prairies healthier and more productive. They argue disease transmission risk is overstated, and that market-based conservation is the future. In America, if you have resources to buy ranches, get the BLM permits, you should be able to do so without government putting its finger on the scale and reversing policy for the ranching interests. They argue public land shouldn’t exclusively be for ranching, and the true purpose of “multiple use public land” should include conservation. When I present issues like this in my class, I’m very careful to not tell my students what to think but rather *how* to think about conservation disputes. Where you land on the issue is uniquely yours, a function of your values, heritage, economic preferences, beliefs on the purpose of public land and the role of wildlife in the 21st century.

@Vinsaniti @braxton_mccoy He does that naturally… no help required

@Sagebrush_Inst @braxton_mccoy Is this basically to make sure @braxton_mccoy has the biggest hat possible at all times?

@KySquirrel_90 It’s a meme

@Sagebrush_Inst Why "sensitive"?

@mflambert Support the youth

@Sagebrush_Inst why sensitive and young I'm abrasive and old (and angry)

Philip@sagebrushinstitute.org

@1776pax @braxton_mccoy Shockingly yes, on this account

@Sagebrush_Inst @braxton_mccoy

People have been reporting this as "offensive" Lol

Many of the things you assume to be normal and universal are actually a product of a high-trust society When you change the people you change the culture, when you change the culture systems that were built for the previous population fail

The left has literally no response to this.

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@simulator49625 Philip@sagebrushinstitute.org

@Sagebrush_Inst I couldn’t even get a reply about setting up a chapter from Sagebrush.

Still more useful than the average text from Braxton

It's wild that these guys just say it out loud here. I talk to friends, even big media figures, and say they think this way and it's written off as tinfoil stuff.

The most prominent elk mount in the trophy room, the one where TR used to display his Rough Riders Hat, was shot in Two Ocean Pass, Wyoming which is summer range and along the migration corridor for the Yellowstone’s NW Wyoming elk herds. That place is really interesting to fish people because when it’s a particularly wet spring (not this year), fish can swim across the continental divide (between the Pacific or Gulf watersheds at the parting of the waters). In his book Wilderness Hunter he talks about how they first got onto the herd from their smell, and after they took one of the bulls, he describes the Tetons in the background.