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  • OP-ED: The Verdict is in. APR'S Reserve Plan is About to Hit Major Headwinds

    Ron Poertner|Sep 29, 2021

    Despite APR’s Pete Geddes’ 9-15- 2021 opinion piece in the Lewistown News Argus that proclaimed everything is going swimmingly for APR, CEO Alison Fox told APR’s membership in a September 2021 email that APR is changing its name and logo to ‘American Prairie’ and claims to be focusing more on public land access and preserving biodiversity on the prairie in northcentral Montana. For those of us who don’t drink APR’s Kool-Aid, we note that APR’s web site does not reflect any particular revisions to its goal of creating a multimillion ac... Full story

  • Ditch Proposed Water Rule

    Ron Poertner, Missouri River Stewards Secretary|Sep 3, 2014

    Here we go again. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a new rule that would give the agency more control over waters of the United States. The farm industry is dead set against this change because the rule would give EPA more ability to impose restrictions on farms and industry under the Clean Water Act (CWA). Congress passed the CWA in 1972 for the purpose of banning the discharge of pollutants into navigable waters without a permit. The original concept of the CWA had merit but over time liberal interpretations of that act...

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