Let’s protect Montana’s hunting traditions

United Property Owners of Montana (UPOM, wealthy Republican landowners) are intent on privatizing Montana’s elk. After not getting their way in the 2021 Legislature, or with the 2022 Fish and Wildlife Commission, they are now suing unless Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks throws out the 2022 hunting regulations and implements UPOM’s wishes. That would mean killing up to 50,000 elk as quickly as possible (through landowner tags) and allowing landowners to kill elk whenever they feel like elk threaten their property...