From time to time, the Conservation Committee considers issues associated with public policy, and communicates their concerns and recommendations to the appropriate agencies or officials. Below are links to letters sent over the years:
- Concerns with 2021 MT HB 418 regarding public land access – Mar 2021
- Whitebark Pine listing letter to USFWS – Jan 2021
- McKamy mine proposal in Pryor Mtns to BLM Billings – Oct 2020
- Line Creek RNA letter requesting no snowmobiles to Shoshone NF – Sep 2020
- Comments on ESA rule change – Sept 2020 Comment originally submitted as an email as linked, but when no confirmation received, comment reformatted as a letter: ESA comments letter
- Missoula BLM Resource Mgt Plan – Aug 2019
- Lewistown Resource Mgt Plan – Aug 2019
- Custer-Gallatin Forest Plan comments – May 2019
- Helena-Lewis & Clark Forest Plan Draft EIS 2 comments – Oct 2018
- Helena-Lewis & Clark Forest Plan Revision comments – Jul 2017
- Flathead Forest Plan Revision final comments – Sep 2016
- Flathead Forest Plan Revision comments – Apr 2015
- Letter to MT FWP about distinguishing between managing the native prairies east and west of the Continental Divide, and to include species of concern in the SWAP – Jan 2014
- Letter to Sen. Baucus encouraging measures to incentivize protecting native sod and wetlands in farm decisions – Jan 2014
- Joint letter from the MT, AZ, ID, NV, OR and UT native plant societies to the USDA Agricultural Research Service expressing concern about introducing non-native plants in the Western United States – Aug 2013
- Comment on BLM Miles City Draft Resource Mgt Plan and EIS – May 2013
- Comment on BLM Billings Draft Resource Mgt Plan and EIS – May 2013
- Concern with Secor Grass seed sales by CENEX – Nov 2010
- Letter to APHIS on Q-37 screening plant imports to prevent introducing invasives – Oct 2009
- State HCP comment about Howellia – Sep 2009
- Petition to place Russian Olive on Montana Noxious Weeds List – Aug 2008
- MT statewide oil & gas EIS comments to BLM – Mar 2007
- Missouri Breaks Mgt Plan comments to BLM – Mar 2006
- Letter to EPA supporting a strong Endangered Species Act – Mar 2006
- Congressional appropriations to acquire Plum Creek lands in the Swan Valley – Apr 2005
- Wild horse trespass on research natural area on Custer NF – Mar 2005
- MT-DNRC Firewise Landscaping brochure and invasive species – November 2004
- Should NRCS fund herbicide application through their Environmental Quality Incentives Program – Sept 2004
- Comments to Weed Mgt Taskforce on the proposed revisions to the Montana Weed Management Plan – Aug 2004
- Recommendation to USFS that road building be limited because roads facilitate noxious weed invasaion – Mar 2004
- Effect of NRCS Conservation Security Program on Great Plains prairie conservation – Jan 2004
- Proposed changes to USFS rules mandating protection of biological diversity on national forest lands – Apr 2003