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This year’s elk season opener found me tagging along with Randy Newberg and Ted Roosevelt IV in the foothills of the Crazy Mountains.
Ted, who is beginning his 83rd trip around the sun this year, is the great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt and the keeper of the family’s conservation mantle. Ted punched his tag just as the sun set behind the Crazies, harvesting a beautiful bull.
While the hunt was exciting, it was the conversations with Ted and Randy about conservation in America that made the day so special.
Republican Congressman Ryan Zinke introduced a bill to continue federal funding for wildlife crossings on Tuesday.
The Wildlife Road Crossings Program Reauthorization Act would extend the work of a pilot program from 2021, making federal funding for crossing projects more permanent.
On Wednesday U.S. Rep Ryan Zinke visited the Ricketts Road project site in Hamilton.
Zinke secured $1 million in grant funding for the two-mile reconstruction project, which he discussed with Ravalli County commissioners in April of 2024.
States should have more sway when it comes to managing their land and natural resources, according to a trio of U.S. representatives who spoke at Glacier National Park’s Lake McDonald Lodge Wednesday afternoon.
For anglers, many of the river systems in Montana feel wild and scenic. Now, U.S. Congressman Ryan Zinke is looking to make that designation official. At a press conference Tuesday in Bozeman, Zinke announced his Greater Yellowstone Recreation Enhancement and Tourism Act. The bill includes the designation of hundreds of miles of the Gallatin and Madison rivers, and some tributaries, in the National and Wild Scenic Rivers System.
Public lands are our birthright. A conservation legacy passed down from generation to generation. We hunt, fish, hike, fall in love, and heal on our lands and waters. We use them to make a living or escape from the grind. That’s not just in Montana — it’s for everyone.
Rep. Ryan Zinke visited the Noxon Bridge on Tuesday, saying afterward that the project is his number one priority.
"The bridge is 100 years old and it has holes the size of trash can lids," Zinke told The Ledger, saying that he was surprised and concerned at the amount of deterioration that has occurred since his last visit in October. "The bridge isn't going to last six years."
A provision allowing the sale of some 450,000 acres of public lands in Utah and Nevada was removed from President Trump’s "big, beautiful" tax package late Wednesday — and Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke led the effort.
Rep. Ryan Zinke has been in constant communication with Missoula Emergency Services since the Department of Veterans Affairs rule “Changes in Rates VA Pays for Special Modes of Transportation” came out in February 2023.