Archive for Fish & Wildlife
Thursday, Rep. Mike Phillips (D) of Bozeman sponsored HJR 10 in the House Fish Wildlife and Parks committee. HJR 10, titled “Urge support for revenue to support wildlife adaptation to climate change” looks to encourage the United States Congress to establish new revenue streams to facilitate wildlife adaptation to climate change.
According to Rep. Phillips, “if we don’t plan provisions for promoting wildlife adaptation many species will not adapt, but rather will simply go extinct.”
HJR 10 has been tabled in committee and is probably dead.
The Old Supreme Court chambers were full when Rep. Mike Phillips (D) HD 66 of Bozeman introduced HB 253, titled the “Wild Buffalo Recovery and Conservation Act.” Phillips bill looks foster a bipartisan solution for bison by improving the management of America’s publicly owned, wild plains bison.
Source: Great Falls Tribune
"I think that it’s going to all work out, with the changes that we have agreed to. It’s not as much (spending for some programs) as I would’ve hoped, but apparently it’s more than other people wanted. As usual, we are trying to find the middle.” 
"[On term limits:] You empower the executive, you empower the lobbyists and that's not good for the system because then we lose what the citizen Legislature brings.” 