Governor's Grizzly Bear Advisory Council Public Comments #1 COMPLETE Collector: Web Link 1 (Web Link) Started: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 7:27:55 AM Last Modified: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 7:44:13 AM Time Spent: 00:16:17 IP Address: 71.36.52.22 Page 1 Q1 Name (optional): Kent Duckworth Q3 Please enter your comments for the Governor's Grizzly Bear Advisory Council: I am interested in serving as a member of the Council. I am a recently retired attorney who practiced in Lake County from 1976. My personal interest however is based on my ownership of a 450 acre property 390 acres of which is under a conservation easement. In recent years we have experienced a growing number of grizzlies crossing Highway 93 and using our farm from spring through the fall. I am a friend of the Flathead Tribe bear biologist, Stacy Courville, who I believe will confirm my interest in and cooperation with the Tribe's attempts to conserve bears as well as protect people and their property. I have no idea if there happens to be a vacancy on the Council, but if or when there is, I would like to apply. Please let me know if I need to take any further steps to be considered. 1 / 524 Governor's Grizzly Bear Advisory Council Public Comments #2 COMPLETE Collector: Web Link 1 (Web Link) Started: Thursday, August 01, 2019 6:27:00 PM Last Modified: Thursday, August 01, 2019 6:32:07 PM Time Spent: 00:05:07 IP Address: 216.47.63.135 Page 1 Q1 Name (optional): Norm Sindelar Q3 Please enter your comments for the Governor's Grizzly Bear Advisory Council: Wondering if Bryce Andrews author of Down from the Mountain is involved GFAC ?? 2 / 524 Governor's Grizzly Bear Advisory Council Public Comments #3 COMPLETE Collector: Web Link 1 (Web Link) Started: Monday, August 05, 2019 3:31:17 PM Last Modified: Monday, August 05, 2019 3:36:07 PM Time Spent: 00:04:50 IP Address: 174.208.25.2 Page 1 Q1 Name (optional): Bill Mckinley Q3 Please enter your comments for the Governor's Grizzly Bear Advisory Council: I hope everyone on the council values this opportunity as much as I would have. I will look forward to seeing great ideas and concepts coming from group. Happy trails and congratulations 3 / 524 Governor's Grizzly Bear Advisory Council Public Comments #4 COMPLETE Collector: Web Link 1 (Web Link) Started: Saturday, August 31, 2019 7:58:42 PM Last Modified: Saturday, August 31, 2019 9:08:27 PM Time Spent: 01:09:45 IP Address: 98.193.15.239 Page 1 Q1 Name (optional): Robert H. Aland 4 / 524 Governor's Grizzly Bear Advisory Council Public Comments Q3 Please enter your comments for the Governor's Grizzly Bear Advisory Council: I have read the State of Montana’s Executive Order No. 9-2019 creating the Grizzly Bear Conservation and Management Advisory Council, and I have two comments: 1. No Uncertainty. The 8th WHEREAS clause on page 1 states that “recent litigation has created uncertainty about delisting of grizzly bears from the Endangered Species Act.” That statement is erroneous; there is no uncertainty. The Montana District Court held that the delisting was invalid and set it aside. As a result, the bears are protected under the Act. Montana - and Idaho and Wyoming - are required to protect the bears in accordance with the Act. 2. Additional WHEREAS Clauses. The following four WHEREAS clauses should be added to the Executive Order in the interest of accuracy and completeness: WHEREAS, approximately 194,000 comments were submitted by the public pursuant to the federal Administrative Procedure Act in response to the 2005 proposed rule issued by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove Endangered Species Act protection for grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem; and according to the Service’s published statistics, 99.3%, including 90.4% from Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, the three states in which grizzly bears reside, opposed delisting. However, the Service disregarded that overwhelming sentiment and issued the 2007 final delisting rule, which was invalidated in Greater Yellowstone Coalition v. Servheen, 672 F. Supp. 2d 1105 (D. Mont. 2009), aff’d, 665 F.3d 1015 (9th Cir. 2011); WHEREAS, approximately 665,000 comments were submitted by the public in response to the 2016 proposed rule issued by the Service to remove Endangered Species Act protection for grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem; but the Service did not prepare a statistical analysis of those comments of the type it prepared for the 2005 public comments due to a “change of policy.” It is reasonable to assume that public sentiment in Montana and elsewhere with regard to the 2016 proposed rule was as overwhelming in opposition to delisting as the public sentiment expressed with regard to the 2005 proposed rule. ********** WHEREAS, the majority of conflicts involving grizzly bears and humans and livestock occur on public lands, which are owned by all Americans and constitute the only remaining safe havens for grizzly bears due to habitat loss; ********** WHEREAS, the only reason to remove Endangered Species Act protection for grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is to permit trophy hunting of the bears under the 2016 Memorandum of Agreement, which divvies up “discretionary mortalities” of the bears among the States of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming; 5 / 524 Governor's Grizzly Bear Advisory Council Public Comments #5 COMPLETE Collector: Web Link 1 (Web Link) Started: Sunday, September 08, 2019 4:30:28 PM Last Modified: Sunday, September 08, 2019 4:35:29 PM Time Spent: 00:05:00 IP Address: 73.168.254.7 Page 1 Q1 Name (optional): Donnie Q3 Please enter your comments for the Governor's Grizzly Bear Advisory Council: 9/8//19 I have two comments on Grizzly Bear conservation I disagree that there is uncertainty under the law. The Montana District Court ruled that the delisting was invalid and set it aside. As a result, the bears are protected under the Act. Montana - and Idaho and Wyoming - are required to protect the bears in accordance with the Act. These clauses should be added to the Executive Order in the interest of accuracy and completeness: WHEREAS, approximately 194,000 comments were submitted by the public pursuant to the federal Administrative Procedure Act in response to the 2005 proposed rule issued by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove Endangered Species Act protection for grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem; and according to the Service’s published statistics, 99.3%, including 90.4% from Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, the three states in which grizzly bears reside, opposed delisting. However, the Service disregarded that overwhelming sentiment and issued the 2007 final delisting rule, which was invalidated in Greater Yellowstone Coalition v. Servheen, 672 F. Supp. 2d 1105 (D. Mont. 2009), aff’d, 665 F.3d 1015 (9th Cir. 2011); WHEREAS, approximately 665,000 comments were submitted by the public in response to the 2016 proposed rule issued by the Service to remove Endangered Species Act protection for grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem; but the Service did not prepare a statistical analysis of those comments of the type it prepared for the 2005 public comments due to a “change of policy.” It is reasonable to assume that public sentiment in Montana and elsewhere with regard to the 2016 proposed rule was as overwhelming in opposition to delisting as the public sentiment expressed with regard to the 2005 proposed rule. ********** WHEREAS, the majority of conflicts involving grizzly bears and humans and livestock occur on public lands, which are owned by all Americans and constitute the only remaining safe havens for grizzly bears due to habitat loss; ********** WHEREAS, the only reason to remove Endangered Species Act protection for grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is to permit trophy hunting of the bears under the 2016 Memorandum of Agreement, which divvies up “discretionary mortalities” of the bears among the States of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming; 6 / 524 Governor's Grizzly Bear Advisory Council Public Comments #6 COMPLETE Collector: Web Link 1 (Web Link) Started: Sunday, September 22, 2019 4:44:08 PM Last Modified: Sunday, September 22, 2019 4:45:09 PM Time Spent: 00:01:01 IP Address: 174.216.7.168 Page 1 Q1 Name (optional): Laurel Angell Q3 Please enter your comments for the Governor's Grizzly Bear Advisory Council: Would just like to be on list to track and follow this. 7 / 524 Governor's Grizzly Bear Advisory Council Public Comments #7 COMPLETE Collector: Web Link 1 (Web Link) Started: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 4:11:47 PM Last Modified: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 4:14:27 PM Time Spent: 00:02:40 IP Address: 67.143.192.62 Page 1 Q1 Name (optional): Anne Wheeler, West Glacier Q3 Please enter your comments for the Governor's Grizzly Bear Advisory Council: Are the Minutes of your meetings available to the public? How would a person access the Minutes and the Agenda for you next meeting? 8 / 524 Governor's Grizzly Bear Advisory Council Public Comments #8 COMPLETE Collector: Web Link 1 (Web Link) Started: Wednesday, October 02, 2019 8:10:04 PM Last Modified: Wednesday, October 02, 2019 8:14:36 PM Time Spent: 00:04:32 IP Address: 72.174.63.147 Page 1 Q1 Name (optional): David Krischel Q3 Please enter your comments for the Governor's Grizzly Bear Advisory Council: There needs to be a limited hunt for grizzly bears say 3 to 5 bears per hunting district they are found in.