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Articles like this are meant to you blackpill because we are “chopping down trees in Yellowstone.” But don’t worry this is completely fake. First, it’s meant to panic you about timber extraction when the National Forests were created in the 1890s for timber and watersheds. The Multiple Use mandate (a law passed in the 1960s) requires we manage American national forests for co-equal purposes: outdoor recreation, timber, grazing, watersheds, fish and wildlife. This means one “use” under the multiple use framework cannot, by law, preclude the others. Timber harvest under multiple use should be a source of American pride in conservation. Multiple use is a uniquely American innovation that gives many different types of people and businesses real skin-in-the-game in public land conservation. The 2026 Forest Service is pretty great at balancing conservation science, outdoor recreation, and extraction based livelihoods. Funny enough, despite what the article is trying to mislead you into thinking, the planned clearcut isn’t really even for timber, it’s mainly to remove dead down trees caused by insects/disease to prevent wildfire. The Biden era emergency declaration they’re using to speed this fire mitigation up is to prevent endless lawsuits from crazy NGOs that make management next to impossible. The proposed Bear Palmer project is less than 1 percent of the 3 million acre Custer Gallatin National Forest. It’s a tiny, localized vegetation removal project. The type of clearcut proposed here *sounds* bad to people who know nothing of Mountain West forests, but it’s well within the Custer Gallatin’s own Biden-era 2022 management plan. Forest management plans are documents that take years of science, manager, and public input to establish a sustainable management strategy including vegetation and timber plans. The management plan itself says a clearcut like this is the ideal path to regeneration for species like lodegpole pine because these trees are shade intolerant, meaning they need sunlight. So regeneration is best after what’s called a “stand replacing disturbance” or a clearcut. Bear Palmer is a prioritized stand because there is a lot of deadfall due to insect issues or big wildfire risks. Beyond all that, no clearcut happens without an additional NEPA and special assessments of wildlife, old growth, listed species like griz, and so on, beyond the requirements of their own plan. You can read hundreds of pages of these assessments on their website today. Clearcutting is literally *the* preferred regeneration method for lodegpole to reduce wildfire risk and disease within the forest’s own plan and meet ecological objectives for regrowth! It’s just crazy to me that supposedly environment focused publications can miss the mark so egregiously. Whose interests are served by making the American people think the Forest Service is bad at managing trees/wildlife?! It’s actually, in terms of its science and management plans, really good at that. I was so astounded by how terrible this article was that I had to look into the author, who is an “award winning Bangladeshi journalist” who recently moved here to do a degree in journalism at the University of Montana. Maybe before writing an article so strangely out of touch with the way we manage national forests like the Custer Gallatin this guy should probably learn a little more about the American system? Who funds the demoralization propaganda website Inside Climate News? Of course it’s the same opaque network of foundations (Ford, MacArthur, Rockefeller) pushing climate extremist degrowth nonsense everywhere else. Only in America do massive foundations push panic agitprop to undermine our own public land agencies/demoralize Americans about our national forest system written by people who got here 5 minutes ago.

Can all my prayer friends pray for my mom. She is elderly and has a really bad flu that settled deep I. Her lungs. Her name is Larisa. Please. 🙏🏼✝️

If any of these @Avalanche players get a point tonight, one person who REPOSTS this wins a FREE stick! Let’s have some fun for Game 1 😄 #GoAvsGo | #StanleyCup

Due to the much-needed wet weather this week, the temporary Stage 1 Fire Restrictions that have been in place are now lifted. You are still encouraged to be cautious with any outdoor cooking or campfires, particularly in the grassy and wooded areas of Jefferson County. The status of fire restrictions can change at any time. Residents and visitors are highly encouraged to check weather forecasts and our website, jeffcosheriffco.gov, before doing any outdoor burning. As a reminder, if at any time a Red Flag Warning is issued by the National Weather Service for portions of Jefferson County, the County will automatically go into Stage 1 Fire Restrictions for that day.

Custer’s 1874 Black Hills Expedition sparked the Deadwood gold rush, but of all the neat Deadwood stories, the best IMO is Custer’s grizzly hunt. Custer had been after a grizzly for years when his favorite scout, Bloody Knife, spotted the bear. Custer fired the first shot but the bear stood on its hind legs and roared heading into the timber of the Black Hills. Bloody Knife shot another 5 times before the bear fell. Custer claimed the bear as his greatest hunting achievement of his life. Now as many of you with a keen eye probably noticed, this is no grizzly bear, it’s a large (800 lb) cinnamon black bear. Cinnamon black bears are what is known as a "color morph" so they aren't a species or even a subspecies. It comes from a genetic mutation impacting the way they make melanin (pigments in their fur). The cinnamon morph is more common in the Rockies (I see them in Yellowstone and Glacier all the time) and sometimes cinnamons can be half the local population of black bears! The color variability among American black bears is one of the most variable across all of North America's mammals. Also funny is Custer’s nickname at West Point was Cinnamon after his elaborate hair care routine and his cinnamon pomade. Another interesting thing about this photo is it has one of the most impactful people in the history of American national park management, Captain William Ludlow (right side of the pic). Captain Ludlow led one of the early stock taking trips to Yellowstone in 1875, just 3 years after its designation as a national park. His was one of the first reports documenting the range of natural features, geology, scenic landscapes, thermal features and so on. This report was among the first to document massive conservation problems in the park, primarily mass poaching of bison and elk, and vandalism of thermal features. He was the one who explicitly said the U.S. Army needs to come in and turn the conservation of the park around, which did lead to Department of War management of Yellowstone starting in 1886 (until NPS took over in 1916). He is seen as one of the first to recognize big problems in Yellowstone, the value of the park, and the importance of federal public land.

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ESPN is terrible. How on earth do they have so many games? And the finals? Np post-game. No nothing. Well done Habs.

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Scoring a big goal is pretty cool. Scoring a big goal in the #StanleyCup Playoffs and getting to hug your brother after is even better 🤗

No! It’s a trap! This bill is such a nightmare. It is designed to destroy existing businesses operating under the Cottage Food rules - which are actually more lenient than many states. Proponents focus on the 5 items. Critics focus on the registration requirements. The revenue cap is the killer. $150k GROSS in an industry with 3-10% margins. Why bother?

If any of you are wondering why car repairs are so expensive now, one reason is parts cost. As an auto technician, we use to rebuild most everything, (starters, alternators, calipers, wheel cylinders, fuel pumps, etc.) Now we can no longer do that as everything is now replaced and only available as an assembly, not individual parts. Manufacturers do that because it saves them labor time dollars on the assembly line. Examples: Fuel pump $75.00, now fuel pump sender assembly $475.00 and up, Coolant thermostat $15.00. now thermostat and housing assembly $160.00 and more, electric window motor $45.00, now window motor regulator assembly $370.00.Throttle cable $35.00 now throttle body for $500.00 The list goes on and on but you get the picture. Please don't blame your mechanic, as they are not seeing that money increase on parts, and its not their fault.

He's a piece of shit. Time for someone to put his face through the back of his head.