[MCN] Collaboration and Litigation (Part 2)

[Stephen Hodgdon]

John,

It would be great if you could do some digging into the public record to
provide evidence that backup your claims. While I don't as a matter of
principle disagree with some of your statements, I find it troubling that
you are presenting "facts" without citations or sources. At this point
these posts have become rumor-mongering at best. Please provide us with
sources for the information, and I'm sure that as a non-profit, how the GYC
and others have come to their decisions is a matter of public record. If
you find that you're being stone-walled, perhaps a litigator like yourself
should request records through the Freedom of Information Act or via other
available resources.

Thank you.

On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 10:41 AM John Meyer via Missoula-Community-News <
missoula-community-news at bigskynet.org> wrote:

> Yesterday we broached the topic of collaboration being used and abused.
>
> The Greater Yellowstone Coalition is the conservation partner in the
> Gravelly Landscape Collaborative.
>
> The Gravelly Landscape Collaborative will not discuss domestic sheep
> grazing in the Gravelly Landscape, which is responsible for killing
> wildlife and precluding Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks from restoring
> bighorn sheep to Bighorn Mountain. The domestics carry disease that will
> quickly kill an entire herd of bighorn sheep. A BLM employee found one dead
> bighorn sheep on one of the domestic sheep allotments.
>
> The Greater Yellowstone Coalition supports the domestic sheep grazing.
> Several people have asked how the organization is adhering to its mission
> when it supports activities that kill wildlife and preclude restoration of
> other species. GYC has not answered. Other people have asked whether
> foundations and private donors know GYC is backing activities that kill
> wildlife.
>
> *Uncomfortable Education*
>
> The spouse of a Forest Service biologist submitted a declaration to the
> court stating an employee of the domestic sheep permittees told him, a GYC
> employee, and I that grizzly bears are being killed illegally in the
> Gravelly Mountains.
>
> I didn’t raise the issue earlier because I didn’t want to be uncomfortable
> or make the GYC employee uncomfortable. Sometimes staying true to yourself
> and your values requires you to be uncomfortable. This is one of those
> times.
>
> *Converstation Starter*
>
> - Did an employee of the domestic sheep producers tell the spouse of a
> Forest Service biologist and a GYC employee that grizzly bears are being
> illegally killed in the Gravelly Mountains? If that is true, why is GYC
> supporting the livestock grazing?
>
> - Did anyone read this recent article
> <https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/environment/grizzlies-force-closure-in-the-gravelly-range/article_3ccae1dc-7b63-53aa-9259-c9a464d2d3f4.html> about
> bears getting into livestock in the Gravelly Mountains?
>
>
> John Meyer
> Executive Director & General Counsel
> Cottonwood Environmental Law Center
> P.O. Box 412 Bozeman, MT 59771
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