Just one example of the excesses among Trump’s cabinet members.

U.S. Rep. Gianforted upped the ante (and acreage) on Sen. Daines’s proposal to reduce WSAs.

Newly installed U of M President Seth Bodnar raised eyebrows by hiring a Chief of Staff at $75,000 in the wake of staff and faculty cuts.

GOP candidate for the Senate, Troy Downing, has multiple citations for illegally purchasing resident hunting licenses.

Three members of the State Land Board voted to postpone the long-negotiated and well vetted conservation easement on the Stenson Ranch near Glendive.

When Delta Airlines eliminated its discount for NRA members, Sen. Steve Daines swore to find alternative transportation in and out of Montana.

Secretary of the Interior (and former Montana congressman) Ryan Zinke has trotted out a plan to exile D.C. bureaucrats to the badlands.

Gov. Bullock has been coy about his political plans when he terms out.

Not a Montana topic, but I couldn’t help it.

In fairness to Daines, he wants to reduce Wilderness Study Areas, not eliminate them. Tester’s bill proposes to designate as wilderness 79,000 acres in the Blackfoot-Clearwater drainages.