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Bogner Holds Listening Tour by ASHLEY WISE Ing Wage Bill MONTANA SPORTS Student teachers Cowboys wrestling tops navigate pandemic Havre in dual. Page 7 with students. Page 3 Miles City Monday, January 4, 2021 STARMiles City, Montana $1.00 Bogner holds listening tour By ASHLEY WISE ing wage bill. There will also Star Editor be discussion on the legaliza- tion of recreational marijua- Last week Sen. Ken Bogn- na and current COVID-19 er held a listening tour in restrictions. Miles City last week. “Everyone is optimistic Rep. Kenneth Holmlund about the restrictions regard- joined Bogner as they updat- ing masks and social distanc- ed the public on the upcom- ing and closure time will like- ing 67th Montana Legislative ly be lifted in some sense,” Session and fielded ques- said Bogner. tions. Another big item to be dis- According to Holmlund, cussed this session is some the session will look different law changes that deal with this year due to COVID-19 possible overreach in power. precautions that have been “I think the pandemic has put in place. exposed a lot of constitution- Some of those include pos- al overreach,” said Bogner. sibly not being able to testify According to Holmlund, in front of committees in per- there are quite a few place- son and having plexiglass holder bills to handle that. dividers set up According to Holmlund, he Other changes include a has received comments from new governor. people on why didn’t the leg- “A lot of optimism with the islators do something during new governor. After 16 years the pandemic when Governor with Democrat control in the Steve Bullock was putting in executive, there is a lot of different mandates. optimism on the Senate side,” “We cannot do anything SUBMITTED PHOTO/ National Park Service The American Prairie Reserve (the APR) currently runs bison on its Sun Prairie Unit. The APR had sought to add 290,000 acres said Bogner until we’re in session,” said for bison grazing in 2017. In 2019, the APR revised its application to request permission to graze bison seasonally on five BLM According to Bogner, there Holmlund. grazing allotments and five state leases, totaling approximately 48,000 public acres. hasn’t been much talk on poli- There is the option to call a cy yet but there has been talk special session but those are on getting the bills that were difficult and expensive to put vetoed over the last 16 years together. Taylor Grazing Act passed now that Republicans Another difficulty will be control each branch of the the budget. state government. the Interior. Phillips, Valley, McCone, chased the 50,000-acre PN According to Holmlund, Some of those issues Montana Coalition While this public land and Fergus, Blaine and Garfield, Ranch in Fergus County for it’s estimated that the state is include pro-life and the sec- wildlife corridor (i.e., the as explained by the APR’s $21.5 million, according to down around $94M. That ond amendment. Holmlund investigates law, Monument and CMR), has Senior External Relations the real estate company Hall number is just a projection will be bringing back several existed for decades, since Manager Beth Saboe in a and Hall. The PN Ranch is 22 and not solid yet. of his bills which include his bison compatibility the start of the 21st century conversation with the Judith miles north of Winifred. This The legislative session anti-sanctuary bill, definition the region has become the Basin Press in 2019. notable ranch was among the began today at noon and will of bison bill and his prevail- By MELODY MONTGOMERY target area of a non-profit In order for APR to amass oldest working ranches in adjourn April 30. Yellowstone Newspapers entity. its goal approximately 3.5 Montana. It is located where Like the Monument that million acres of Montana, an the Judith River joins the With an area of 1.1 million was established in 2001, also area approximately the size Missouri River. acres spanning approximate- established in 2001 was the of Connecticut, the APR In 2017, the APR pur- ly 125 miles along the Mis- Prairie Foundation, later must purchase hundreds of chased the 46,000-plus-acre souri River, Montana’s renamed the American Prai- Montana family ranches. Two Crow Ranch in Petro- Charles M. Russell Wildlife rie Reserve (the APR). Its Eighty percent of the leum County for $7.95 mil- Refuge (the CMR) is the sec- stated mission is “to create APR’s overarching goal for lion, according to Rocky ond-largest wildlife refuge the largest nature reserve in its land mass is already free- Mountain Ranch Realty. The in the continental United the contiguous United ly accessible public land Two Crow connects to the States. States, a refuge for people belonging to the people of CMR. The CMR was created ini- and wildlife preserved for- the United States, when tak- After these purchases, tially as the Fort Peck Game ever as part of America’s ing into account the existent members of Fergus and Range in 1936, and connects heritage,” as written on the CMR and Monument. Petroleum counties became on its west end with the APR’s website. Regarding the other 20%, more involved since the APR 377,000 acre Upper Missouri This mission involves to date, the APR has com- was now in their backyard. River Breaks National Mon- gaining control of the pri- pleted at least 29 land acqui- “For us struggling north ument (the Monument), vate land surrounding exist- sitions and holds 419,000 of the river for over a which was established in ing public land. acres of both public and pri- decade trying to maintain STAR PHOTO/Ashley Wise 2001. While the APR is classi- vate land. our economies while the Rep. Kenneth Holmlund and Sen. Ken Bogner listen to con- The CMR is managed by fied as a non-profit, the land Regarding the private APR purchased ranches, the cerns from local residents last week. Fish and Wildlife Services, it purchases through donors land acquired by the APR, energy that came from Fer- and the Monument is man- remains private land. more than one historic Cen- gus and Petroleum counties aged by the Bureau of Land The APR currently holds, tral Montana ranch has been was a godsend,” said Valley Management (the BLM). or has plans to hold, land in a consumed south of the Mis- County Commissioner John Greg Gianforte sworn in as Both of these federal entities total of seven Montana coun- souri River. Fahlgren. fall under the Department of ties. These are Petroleum, In 2016, the APR pur- See “Act,” page 5 Montana’s 25th governor HELENA (AP) — Greg divides us,” he said. “That’s Gianforte was sworn in as why I look forward to work- Daines says he’ll reject Electoral College votes barring further review Montana’s 25th governor ing with anyone – Democrat, Monday, becoming the state’s Republican, or independent – By ERIC DIETRICH Joe Biden. ber of Americans have sig- convene [a] special legisla- first Republican governor in who has a good idea.” Montana Free Press Daines and some Republi- nificant doubts about the tive session to certify a 16 years. Kristen Juras was sworn in can peers want Congress to integrity of 2020 presidential change in their vote, if need- Gianforte said he is com- as lieutenant governor. President Donald J. appoint an election commis- election results,” Daines ed.” mitted to growing the state’s Attendance at the inaugu- Trump, flanked by Montana sion to provide further wrote in a statement, citing With election results certi- economy, lowering taxes, ration was limited to 25 peo- U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, right, review of the November Biden’s relatively narrow fied by state’s across the improving the state’s infra- ple and attendees wore signs H.R. 1957, the Great vote in certain states. That margin of victory in several nation, and U.S. Electoral structure and reining in state masks, except when speak- American Outdoors Act, on would potentially create a states. College votes tallied Dec. 14, spending. ing, to limit the spread of the Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, in the path to overturn the results “I believe it is important Biden has been elected the “For too long, state spend- coronavirus. East Room of the White in those states before Biden that we agree to hear the next U.S. president with 306 ing has grown out of control Gianforte has previously House. Credit: Official White is sworn in to office Jan. 20 concerns of Americans, and Electoral College votes to as taxpayers send more indicated he may lift a state- House photo by Tia Dufour by giving Republican-con- that’s why I believe it’s Trump’s 232. While Biden money to Helena. Its appetite wide mask mandate put in In advance of a historical- trolled legislatures in those important that we form the won some states by relative- has been insatiable,” he said. place by his Democratic pre- ly routine vote Jan. 6 where states a chance to switch electoral commission. To ly narrow margins — just While Republicans won decessor, Steve Bullock, and the U.S. Congress tallies the their state’s electoral votes answer the questions out- 12,670 votes in Georgia, for every statewide office in the instead rely on personal results of the 2020 presiden- from Biden to Trump. The standing, find resolution and example, and 20,682 in Wis- November election and responsibility to follow public tial election, U.S. Sen. Steve Republican senators said protect the democratic pro- consin — his Electoral Col- increased their majority in health guidance.
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