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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Tue Apr 20, 2010 at 10:02:35 AM MST
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| One of the grand traditions of the resource extraction industry has been to demonize "outsiders" who want to have a say in natural resource decisions. People who aren't from around here, they argue, shouldn't have a say in how we manage our land or our forests.
So imagine my surprise to see a Western Tradition Partnership spokesman from Billings insist that Missoula county commissioners defer to the Montana legislature on a land use question. What's next, kick it to Congress? "You've got a situation here where this is more of a Legislature issue than it is a county commissioner issue," Dan Fuchs of Western Tradition Partnership said from his office in Billings. "For those guys to try to shut down development up there in that part of the state is ridiculous."
The county is in the final stages of developing a land use update in the Seeley Lake region, where Plum Creek owns 35 percent of the land.
At their sixth hearing on the overall plan on Wednesday, commissioners will consider an amendment that would prohibit residential development on some resource protection lands that currently allow some houses. Between this and Tei Nash getting scolded by the city attorney for interfering in local affairs where he doesn't live, consider me one Missoulian currently a big fan of our local rule. |
| Matt Singer :: Western Tradition Partnership Plays with Fire |
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