[MCN] Senator Daines on the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station

[John Meyer]

Here is a link <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNl_eVJNVy4> to the 30
second YouTube video we made about the Sheep Station. People are saying the
first one did not work.

Have a great weekend.

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 9:39 PM, John Meyer <John at cottonwoodlaw.org> wrote:

> In addition to Senator Daines currently trying to pass legislation to undo
> Cottonwood's court win for Canada lynx, he has also passed two
> Appropriations Riders after we won two consecutive Endangered Species Act
> cases for grizzly bears.
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> Former USDA Secretary Vilsack tried to close the U.S. Sheep Experiment
> Station in southwest Montana two times after Cottonwood won two Endangered
> Species Act cases against the federal research facility. The Sheep Station
> told the public in its environmental analysis that there had never been any
> human/grizzly bear conflicts, but we obtained internal emails through
> several FOIA requests that state the sheep herders were being chased by
> grizzly bears to protect sheep they had killed. The collar of one grizzly
> bear was found in a stream under a rock and a log on Sheep Station
> property.
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> Former Secretary Vilsack tried to transfer the 20 or so jobs to another
> federal research facility in Nebraska. The consolidation would have saved
> millions of taxpayer dollars, protected human lives, protected grizzly bear
> lives, and opened over 16,000 acres of federal land along the Continental
> Divide Trail that is currently closed to the public for hiking, camping,
> and hunting. Senator Daines passed two appropriations riders keeping the
> federal land closed to the public.
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> To be clear: both the Obama and Trump Administrations have tried to stop
> domestic sheep grazing in the Centennial Mountains to protect grizzly
> bears, save millions of taxpayer dollars, and open the area along the CDT
> to the public. Senator Daines has stopped that from happening.
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> Cottonwood is gearing up for its third lawsuit against the U.S. Sheep
> Experiment Station. Check out the attached 30 second video to see the area
> we have spent the last several years protecting with Gallatin Wildlife
> Association. Cottonwood's website has additional information.
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>  October Sheep Station.mp4
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8BXBsjEi27fS25SYU1yc1BZZFU/view?usp=drive_web>
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John Meyer
Executive Director & General Counsel
Cottonwood Environmental Law Center
P.O. Box 412 Bozeman, MT 59771
John at Cottonwoodlaw.org
(406) 546-0149

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