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Gianforte Appeals
Judge’s APR Bison
Grazing Decision
Montana Governor Greg
Gianforte has announced
his administration has filed
its briefing in the appeal of a
judge’s decision denying the
state’s petition for stay after
the Biden Administration
approved the American
Prairie Reserve’s request to
graze bison on Bureau of Land
Management land in northeast
Montana.
In briefing, entitled
a Statement of Reasons
(statement) and submitted
to the U.S. Department of
the Interior’s Board of Land
Appeals, the Gianforte
administration again requested
a stay of the decision pending
appeal, highlighting failures by
the judge in denying the stay
this fall.
First, the administration Having fun with the spray gun?
argues the judge failed to Jacky Dyrland would like to say “Happy Holidays” from Glentana, Montana!
(She says she was bored and got handy with the blue spray can). It was a
sufficiently analyze the state’s
rather quiet Christmas day for many of our neighbors up north as white-out
legal arguments. conditions caused road closures and snow drifts like this, making virtually
“This summary denial impossible traveling conditions. Hopefully things can get back to somewhat
continued on page 2 normal in areas such as St. Marie before the next round comes blowing in.
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Today: A 40 percent chance of snow after 4pm. Mostly cloudy,
with a high near 33. West northwest wind 13 to 20 mph, with
gusts as high as 28 mph. Little or no snow accumulation
expected.
Tonight: A 30 percent chance of snow, mainly before 8pm.
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 12. Northwest wind 6 to
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accumulation expected.
Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 24. East southeast
wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable.
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Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 24. Southeast wind 6
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Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 26. West northwest
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Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 7. North
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New Year’s Day: Partly sunny, with a high near 18. Northwest
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Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 7. North
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Judge’s APR decision continued from front
inadequately addresses the Executive’s statutory authority
arguments and completely ignores the Executive’s
regulatory authority arguments,” the statement reads,
restating the arguments in favor of a stay.
Second, the administration asserts that in denying
its petition for stay, the judge failed to properly assess
the magnitude of harm to the State because it limited its
review to the harm caused to one allotment.
“The Final Decision authorizes permits on all
allotments in this case. The Executive requested a stay
of the Final Decision in its entirety—not just those
portions APR feels inclined to affect on a given day. To
find otherwise subjects the Executive to an untenable
game of whack-a-mole,” the statement continues. The
statement explains that the denial of a stay infringes on
the State’s ability to manage state trust lands.
Following the judge’s order, DNRC notified APR
that bison are not presently authorized under state law
to graze state trust lands on several of the allotments at
issue in the case. In response, APR expressed plans to
implement a new fencing regime in an effort to avoid
state trust lands and utilize a portion of the allotment.
The administration highlights this departure from the
BLM’s Final Decision in its statement.
“Allowing APR to proceed in deviation from a
contested Final Decision, in the absence of analysis
and public involvement, is not only legally fraught
but disingenuous to the process leading to the Final
Decision.”
Finally, arguing the judge failed to adequately
analyze public interest, which weighs in favor of a stay,
the statement continues, “It is not in the public interest
to permit such an offense to persist, especially pending
appeal.”
The statement also contends public interest weighs
against usurping the State’s authority over state trust
lands as well as against federal administrative agencies,
like the Bureau of Land Management, bending the law
and exceeding the scope of its authority.
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List For Montana Talks
by Aaron Flint
John Jackson, “The Joker” from Twitter, joins us
from time to time on our Montana Talks statewide radio
show. He’s a retired federal law enforcement officer with
over 70,000 followers on Twitter, but lives right here in
Montana.
On Tuesday, we were discussing my list of the “Top
10 Montana Stories of 2022” based on local page views.
Here is the Joker’s Top 10 list of national stories for
2022:
10. Elon Musk buys Twitter
9. Traitor RINO Senate Republicans
8. Fauci retires, mask and vax mandates struck down.
7. Roe v Wade struck down
6. Republicans take the House in the midterms
5. Government interference in elections confirmed
thru Twitter files.
4. Raid on Mar-a-Lago
3. Illegal Immigration
2. Economy...Gas, Food, Inflation, Crime
1. Ukraine and the Biden response.
And, based off of a listener’s special request, we
played a song on the radio.
The Babylon Bee’s “Biden Did You Know” song
was hilarious, but it also raised a good question. Even if
Biden didn’t know how harmful his policies were going
to be two years ago, he should know now — right?
John Jackson: “The answer to that question — he
himself does not know. We are living in that episode of
Star Trek where he’s just wheeled out and given things to
say and he has no idea. It’s the people behind the scenes
running everything that...you know — the Susan Rice’s
and all the Obama holdovers that are just — this is just
Obama’s third term.”
For the full audio of our chat with John Jackson
about the top stories of 2022, go to montanatalks.com
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Researching Stockwater Rights, asking for your help
by Sierra Dawn Stoneberg Holt
1983, and it’s been a really long time. Lots of the players are
Everyone will be delighted to know that I have continued
no longer with us.
to research stockwater rights. What I have discovered has
But do you have a story? Do you remember trying to
served to keep me nice and toasty as the thermometer has
file stockwater rights on federal reservoirs and being told
dipped toward thirty below… and it hasn’t been because I’ve
you couldn’t? Did your uncle start telling stories about how
discovered touching stories that’ve warmed my heart.
miserable filing water rights was one day as you were out
I’ve told you that it is well established that before
riding and checking cows? Were you playing under the
1973 all Montana stockowners with customary ranges that
table with your toy trucks and heard some official telling
included federal lands had vested, valid Montana stockwater
your dad that filing on federal land wasn’t allowed?
rights across the entirety of their customary ranges, even on
By themselves, these stories don’t amount to much.
the federal lands.
It’s been forty years. But I’ve been told over and over that
I’ve since discovered that in 1983 the Montana Water
the reason that hundreds, thousands? of water rights have
Court delivered the opinion that the, “United States [had]
disappeared is because the ranchers were stupid and lazy
no claim to these waters. The United States did not take the
and didn’t want the rights. I’m sick of hearing it and reading
water and divert it… [T]hese water rights shall reflect title to
it, and I want proof that’s wrong.
the right to use the water as a vested right in the individual
To be absolutely clear, I don’t want anyone to make
appropriators and not the United States.” (Powder River
anything up. The other side has done way too much of
Preliminary Decree Memorandum, 1983, p. 9, 10).
that, and we don’t need to sink to their level. If you don’t
Well, that’s pretty clear cut. And, yes, I do realize that
remember, you don’t remember, that’s just the way it goes.
with a couple quick quotes like this, I could potentially skew
But just one little story that you do remember helps. By
your impression of the court decision, but I’ve read the
itself, it’s nothing. If one family gets lied to, cheated, stolen
whole thing, and I assure you that this accurately represents
from, that’s sad, but that’s life. But if an entire county is lied
the 17-page whole that I saw, and the signatures and stamps
to, cheated, and stolen from by their own government, that’s
certainly looked genuine to me. I hadn’t realized that the
a story that needs to be told.
courts had settled it quite so firmly. The United States
I can help you put what you remember into an official
appealed that decision to the Montana Supreme Court, as
form. One short little paragraph about one conversation
was their right, and then on September 19, 1983, voluntarily
with a relative who has passed on is perfect. I’ll happily work
moved to have their appeal dismissed.
with you by e-mail (sierra@nemont.net), over the phone
In legal parlance, this means that the question “was
(406) 364-2146, or I can meet you somewhere and work
litigated by the United States to final judgment.” It’s amazing
with you in person.
quite how completely they forgot what the judge told them.
I believe these stories are still out there. Please help me
I somehow get the feeling that if you or I had let a Court
find them.
Order slip our minds like that, we might be in quite a bit of
trouble.
I’ve heard over and over how, “we tried to file on our DUCKS UNLIMITED
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do with your kids during
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December 28th – 30th
Between 10 am – 3 pm
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 Ice Jams
already?
It’s not in our neck of
the prairie, but it’s rather
interesting. Rosebud Isle
Fishing Access Site located
in the Custer Gallatin
National Forest has been
closed temporarily due to
ice jams and floods. Ice
jams on portions of the
West Rosebud River have
caused water and large
chunks of ice to inundate
the site, creating unsafe
conditions for motorists
and pedestrians. Access to
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soon as conditions allow.

A Sunday school teacher asked her students to

draw a picture of their favorite Old Testament story. As
she moved around the class, she saw there were many
wonderful drawings being done. Then she came across
the drawing of one little boy. He was busy drawing
a man driving an old car. In the backseat were two
passengers—both scantily dressed.
“It’s a lovely picture,” prompted the teacher, “but
which story does it tell?”
The little boy seemed surprised at the question.
“Well,” he exclaimed, “doesn’t it say in the Bible that
God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden?”
 Thanks for Listening
More Christmas
Money In Your Pocket
12/25/22 3:32 am
Are you nearly broke at
Christmas? I used to be after watching all
my Christmas money going up in smoke trying to pay
those exorbitant utility bills that hit my mail box in
November and December as well as after the New Year
in January and February. Then I got smart. You can too
if you follow these simple directions.
You can shut your house down in winter and
move into a wood-fired tent. I did that for two winters
when I first came back to this country. It was fun...I
enjoyed the summers except for the bugs and I had a
good 35 gallon barrel stove to help keep me warn in
winter. I also adopted two stray cats who would come
into my tent at night and climb up on my feet to keep
warm.
I don’t suggest that, however. What I do suggest is
this.
Call MDU and your electric utility and ask for
your last two years bills...or if they will do it, just ask
for the total you paid in 2021 and 2022. After you get
the number, divide it by two and add 10%.
‘Frinstance 2021 was 700 and 2022 climbed to
900 totaling 1600 bucks. Add your 10% and the total
is 1760. Now, divide that by two...(hold on a minute
while I get my calculator)...OK 1760 divided by 2 is
860. Now divide that by 12. Your monthly payment
would be. $73.33. I’d round it up to $80.
What that means is that in July when your MDU
bill is a paltry $15, it’s more painful than a boil on
your keister to pay $80 but......isn’t it just A Wonderful
Life to pay only 80 bucks in Nov when MDU jacks up
the rate times two or three and your bill hits $275.
You pay just $80 and have an “extra” $195 in your
checking account. When the bill comes for December
and it’s about the same as November you come away
with a two month total of almost $400 “extra” to
squander on your kids, co-workers cats and dogs and
grandparents. You could send me a couple bucks if
you like!! I’m probably preaching to the choir and
you knew this all along but if you didn’t and it helps
you....thanks.
Do the same with your electricity bill and any
other fluctuating bills you have.
It would be a smart move for Montana Dakota
Utilities to do the same, especially on the items listed
on their bill. It kinda looks like your phone bill with
all the added fees, taxes and charges...you know “basic
service...distribution delivery....cost of gas #1....cost
of gas #2....USBC (whatever that is)....CTA (another
enigma)...and my favorite “ tax tracking adjustment.”
On my bill that one was $12.53. I’m gonna have to call
MDU and ask them what the hell that is.
I’m also going to suggest to MDU that they follow
suit and when they do they can pay me lots of money
for this idea that maybe as few as 37......million people
have thunk up before me. But it works just fine for me
and I think you would be happy with it as well.
I’ll warn you however that this is like being an
alcoholic or a smoker or a Kleptomaniac or a Biden
once you start with it you need to keep up with it. You
can’t ‘take just one shot of Seagram’s 7 or smoke one
cigarette or steal one dollar or be president....if you do
it’s Hell trying to rectify the situation
I have first hand knowledge about that because I
once didn’t pay the full amount in the summer because
I had a $300+ buffer already....then winter hit with a
vengeance and a $350 bill hit me in the wallet followed
by a $ 295 bill. Wiped me out and I had a very bleak
Christmas. It took me a good long while to catch back
up. I took the sip of booze and smoked that cigarette!
I want to thank you all for letting me into your
minds. I hope I’ve given you some truths to mull-
around in your brain. It’s not always pleasant but it’s
always true to the best of my ability to research. Some
is simply my own conservative thinking. Some is
meant to provoke and some to encourage folks maybe
into thinking right. There’s not too many MSM news
outlets we can trust anymore. I hope this one is to your
liking.
That’s it for now folks. Thanks for listening.
~ Virgil Vaupel
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