Word: montana
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...MONTANA'S CONGRESSMAN, I WANT TO alert your readers to a crisis concerning our Western land that your report only touched on. America already is over the brow of its last hill. Few wild places remain, and the competition for the public's land is growing and becoming dangerously fierce. Here in Washington, America is faced with the most anti-environmental Congress of our lifetime. Resource-extraction industries, foreign and domestic, are writing the legislation to weaken laws that have protected our land, air and water. We Montanans are proud of living in the "last best place...
...looks of things, he's not slowing down. He's the same half of the Montana-to-Rice connection that led the 49ers to two straight Super Bowls in the late eighties and won him a Super Bowl MVP award in Super Bowl XXIII...
...years of catching passes from the likes of Joe Montana, Steve Young and now Elvis Grbac (playing for the injured Young), Jerry Rice has made the 5-yard slant pattern an institution in the City...
...companies, mining and logging interests, developers and growers. A proposed Senate version of the Endangered Species Act, sponsored by Slade Gorton of Washington, was written with the help of timber lobbyists. According to the Western States Center, a campaign-finance research enterprise, Senator Conrad Burns of Montana got more than a fourth of his campaign funding last year from such sources, an unusually high percentage. The League of Conservation voters gave him a score of zero for his votes in the last Congress...
There are 17 million acres of national forest lands in Montana. Last year Burns introduced a wilderness-protection bill for his state that called for safeguarding 800,000 acres and easing commercial activity restrictions on 5 million acres. Fourteen energy companies worked to win exclusion of a key part of this acreage, a 100-mile-long strip of remote terrain in northwestern Montana, known as the Rocky Mountain Front, that could allow them to stake drilling claims. "The matchup was exact. His big campaign contributors got precisely the acreage that they wanted,'' insists John Gatchell, conservation director of the Montana...