Rehberg Votes Against Sportsmen!

Denny Rehberg voted against Ominbus Public Land Management Act of 2009 supported by Trout Unlimited, RMEF and various sportsmens groups across the country. The vote was only two votes shy of passing. It needed a 2/3rds majority to pass. Leadership will likely bring this to a vote again in the coming days.

Let Denny know where you stand on this bill and ask him to put sportsmen first and energy companies second! http://www.house.gov/rehberg/contact.shtml

While it doesn't affect Montana directly it would protect the following :

• The Wyoming Range Legacy Act that would protect 1.2 million acres of Wyoming hunting and fishing paradise from unnecessary and unneeded oil and gas drilling. It's estimated the range sits above six hours worth of oil and only 24 days worth of natural gas—resources we can live without, given the above-ground resources that will produce hunting and fishing opportunity for generations to come.
• The Copper-Salmon Wilderness Act that would protect the headwaters of the Elk River and, by extension, the pristine lower reaches of the river that provide some of the best coastal salmon and steelhead fishing on the West Coast.
• The Eastern Sierra and Northern San Gabriel Wild Heritage Act that would permanently protect 450,000 acres as wilderness, including acreage in the headwaters of the Owens and West Walker rivers, (the Upper Owens being one of the top destinations for anglers and hunters in the entire state). It would also protect land in the San Gabriel Mountains vital to sportsmen who crave fishing and hunting destinations closer to Southern California’s urban centers.
• The National Landscape Conservation System, a vast network of federal real estate that includes fishing destinations like Colorado’s famed Gunnison Gorge and hunting destinations like Oregon’s Steens Mountain Region.
• The Wild Monongahela Wilderness Act in West Virginia, that would protect about 40,000 acres of backcountry in that state that provides some of the Eastern Seaboard’s best native brook trout angling and excellent deer and upland game bird hunting.
  

For more information on this important bill, visit www.tu.org. Thank you for your help with this vital issue, and thank you for your continued support of Trout Unlimited.