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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gst" data-source="post: 176951" data-attributes="member: 373"><p>This is the kind of thing that leaves local folks scratching their head and often opposed to the Federal agencies management of these lands. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://freerangereport.com/index.php/2017/07/15/despite-agreement-montana-helicopter-fleet-stays-grounded-in-busy-wildfire-season/" target="_blank">http://freerangereport.com/index.php/2017/07/15/despite-agreement-montana-helicopter-fleet-stays-grounded-in-busy-wildfire-season/</a></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"><span style="color: #210800"><span style="font-family: 'Merriweather'"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"><span style="color: #210800"><span style="font-family: 'Merriweather'"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"><span style="color: #210800"><span style="font-family: 'Merriweather'"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></span></span></span>[h=2]Despite agreement, Montana helicopter fleet stays grounded in busy wildfire season[/h]<span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"><span style="color: #210800"><span style="font-family: 'Merriweather'"><span style="color: #ff0000">BILLINGS — Despite an agreement worked out last year, a group of Montana legislators is reigniting a debate over why state helicopters can’t be used to fight federal fires except when lives are threatened.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"><span style="color: #210800"><span style="font-family: 'Merriweather'"><span style="color: #ff0000">On Wednesday the Environmental Quality Council — composed of 12 legislators and four members of the public who met by conference call — unanimously approved sending </span><a href="http://leg.mt.gov/content/Committees/Interim/2017-2018/EQC/Meetings/July-2017/zinke-perdue-letter.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000">a letter</span></a><span style="color: #ff0000"> to Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and Secretary of the Department of the Interior Ryan Zinke stating their displeasure with the federal standards.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"><span style="color: #210800"><span style="font-family: 'Merriweather'"><span style="color: #ff0000">“Regarding the issue relative to the Department of Agriculture, there appears to be an ongoing refusal on the part of the federal government and the Forest Service to allow our Montana (MT-205) helicopters to be classified as approved aircraft for initial attack on federal lands,” the letter stated. “The aircraft are safe and effective and are integral to fighting wildfires in Montana. For them to be allowed on all lands in the state except federal land because of a bureaucratic technicality is not logical.”</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Lato'"></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: silver"><span style="font-size: 9px">- - - Updated - - -</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>About as low as labeling all the hard working every day folks that are members of the North Dakota Farm Bureau Posse Comitatus members ?</p></blockquote><p></p>

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