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Landowners & Vo
hunters benefit l. 9
Thu 20
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rsday 7,
, January
from 25 years of
BMA Program
2020 marked the 25th anniversary of
Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ Block Management
Program.
This popular access program started
locally across Montana in the mid-1980s.
However, through HB195 in the 1995
Legislative Session, it created the program
as it’s formally known today starting
with the 1996 hunting season. Block
Management provides public hunting
opportunities on private land across the
state and has created positive working
relationships among landowners and
hunters.
Funding for Block Management
comes from the sale of various licenses,
including a portion of the resident
and nonresident base hunting license,
nonresident upland gamebird licenses,
nonresident combination deer/elk licenses
and chances sold in the Supertag license
lottery.
For the 2020 hunting season, nearly
1,300 landowners enrolled about 7.2
million acres of land in the program.
In northeast Montana’s Region 6,
an amazing 77 cooperating landowners
have been involved in the program for
25 or more years. The Region 6 program
quickly climbed to over 1 million acres
by the late 90s, and today Region 6 Block
Management includes nearly 1.3 million
private land acres.
continued on back page Biologist Drew Henry’s kids go hunting with him on a BMA. photo by Dad

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7
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Less cold
temperatures
over the next few days
Tonight: Isolated snow showers before 3am. Mostly cloudy,
with a low around 3. Wind chill values between -5 and -10.
East wind around 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 24. Wind chill
values between -5 and -15. East southeast wind 14 to 16
mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.
Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 13.
East southeast wind 11 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 22
mph.
Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 36. East southeast
wind 6 to 9 mph.
Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 18. East
wind around 11 mph.
Friday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 35. East wind 8 to
10 mph.
Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 16. North
northeast wind 6 to 9 mph.
Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 33. Light and
variable wind becoming west northwest 5 to 7 mph in the
afternoon.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 18. East
wind around 7 mph becoming west southwest after midnight.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 39. West wind 6 to
8 mph.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 20.
Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 42.
Reel Life Wisdom
“You are free to do as we tell you.”~Bill Hicks
in American: The Bill Hicks Story (2010))
Service for Betty Lou Fuhrmann
Betty Lou Fuhrmann,
82, of Glasgow, Montana
passed away Sunday,
January 24, 2021.
Family will receive
friends at Bell Mortuary,
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. with
a prayer service at 5:00
p.m. Burial will be at a later
date. Please follow current
Covid-19 restrictions
with social distancing and
wearing a mask.
Doses to dribble in,
patience is needed
Montana has moved into Phase 1B for COVID-19
vaccine distribution for Montanans 70 years of age and
older, 16 to 69 years of age with a high-risk medical
condition, and Native Americans and other persons
of color who may be at elevated risk for COVID-19
complications.
If you have already called Valley County Health
Department to get on the Phase 1B list, please do
NOT call again.
If you qualify for Phase 1B and have not called,
the phone number is 228-6261.
Montana will receive a very limited number of
COVID-19 vaccine doses and thus Valley County will
receive a severely limited supply of COVID-19 vaccine.
The current estimation is 100 doses of COVID-19 a week
for the next weeks to months. Valley County’s persons
who are in the 1B category for COVID-19 vaccine are
estimated to be 2600 people. As you can see, 100 doses
a week will not get us vaccinated very quickly.
We need everyone to be patient. VCHD staff will
call to schedule 1B persons through a RANDOM,
COMPUTER GENERATED selection of persons who
are on our list. Many people called our office to be
placed on this list prior to publication or advertising of
the need to call. Several of our office personnel answer
phone calls and take names at the same time. Every
person is important to us and is deserving of a vaccine.
We are distributing this vaccine as quickly and as fairly
as possible.
~ Lynn Miller, RN
Director, Valley County Health Department
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To Know Biden’s Favorite Disney Princess SOUPS: Tomato ∙ Chili

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In
a brutal press conference
this morning, courageous
journalists asked hard-
hitting questions of the
incoming administration.
In one particularly tense
exchange, Press Secretary
Jen Psaki was forced to reveal
President Biden’s favorite
Disney Princess.
“Please, Miss Press Secretary, Please!
Please!” asked CNN correspondent
Kaitlan Collins. “We need to know
President Biden’s favorite Disney princess!
Is it Belle? Or maybe Jasmine?” she said
while waving her hand and jumping up
and down.
“Wow, what a fantastic question,”
responded Psaki. “I haven’t asked the
President that, so I will have to get back to
you. Whoever it is, I’m sure his favorite is
an empowered woman of color.”
Undeterred, the press pool continued
to follow up on the question, demanding
a clearer answer.
“OK, fine,” responded a slightly
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“NO IT’S NOT!!” came a muffled
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name is! Hey! Let go of me! Where are
you taking me?”
There was the sound of a scuffle
from behind the curtain and the voice
faded away.
As the press conference resumed,
journalists continued to grill the Press
Secretary, asking further questions like:
“Does President Biden prefer puppy
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“Team Edward or Team Jacob?”
“So... does President Biden like being
President?”
“Who is his favorite ninja turtle?”
“Gryffindor or Hufflepuff?”
“Can I go to the bathroom please? I’m
sorry, MAY I go to the bathroom?”
Journalists everywhere have praised
Biden’s new press conferences as “A
welcome return to civility and truth.”
The New York Times also praised the
press conference and ran a 12-page in-
depth report on why Biden’s choice of
Moana as the best Disney princess is
brilliant.
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BMAs continued from front extra dollars in impact payments for hunters that were already
The program has been changing steadily since current hunting on or near their land.
hunting access coordinator Tim Potter took over in 2014. Both grazing associations have acres “with a lot of federal
“Our region has regularly been increasing in enrolled and state land and some deeded, and it seemed like an easy way to
acres,” says Potter, “thanks to the willing landowners that enroll allow hunting,” says Swenson. “FWP marks the boundaries pretty
their property and hats off to the biologists, wardens and Block well and has sign-in boxes at most access points. Although we still
Management technicians that help keep have some problems of people driving on
this program growing.” muddy roads and leaving gates open, it
Two landowners who have been has worked out pretty well.”
involved with Block Management from Even though there are some issues
the beginning are former Fish and with certain hunters abusing the rules,
Wildlife Commissioner Richard Stuker landowners know that most hunters
and Henry Gordon of Chinook. Both appreciate the program.
Stuker and Gordon are part of the North Swenson has some of his own
Blaine Block Management Area, which property near his home place enrolled as
encompasses more than 85,000 acres. The a BMA, and has developed many positive
area is a large mix of public and private relationships with hunters over the year.
land in northern Blaine County. “I have had hunters come back year
“We knew people were already after year, and sometimes they’ll bring
hunting out there, and the mix of public homemade jelly or Wisconsin cheese.”
and private land caused a lot of confusion “One time, a guy left a $100 and an
for hunters,” says Gordon. “Putting this Rowen Kloker signs up to hunt for apology note in the sign-in box, that he
property into block management made it his first time ever (for doves) at a said it was to help fix a fence post that he
easier for hunters to get around. Plus, we BMA, photo by Marc Kloker broke,” added Gordon. “That was pretty
were worried about hunters starting and neat, and I appreciated it.”
leaving campfires and not having anyone out there to keep watch.” “I get a lot of repeat hunters and we exchange Christmas
“The major reason we remain in the program is that we cards with some of them every year,” said Stuker. “Also, hunters
have FWP staff in our area during the hunting season keeping an know the rules for my BMA, and if they see violations, they will
eye on things,” added Stuker. tell FWP or myself. They know it’s a privilege to hunt on my
“Block Management is a good way to get a few dollars back private property, not a right.”
for when people drive off trails or break fences,” says Gordon, “and Hunters from Montana and other states know and
we have wardens and seasonal Block Management technicians appreciate the opportunity that Block Management provides.
who can patrol and help enforce the rules of the BMA.” “There just isn’t anything like it in any other state that I’ve
Block management technician Tim Roth has been a “super hunted,” said Minnesota resident Bill Landgren, who has hunted
person to work with,” says Gordon. “He’s stopped all kinds a variety of Block Management properties for more than 10 years
of people from driving off-road and finally has most of them in Region 6. “I find the maps and rules easy to follow, and Block
educated.” Management provides a great opportunity for me, especially for
“Tim does a great job, along with the wardens, in keeping the agricultural land and bird hunting opportunities that I’m
most of the problems under control,” added Stuker. looking for.”
Both Stuker and Gordon enroll other portions of their “The ease of access to so many different kinds of properties
property in Block Management, as well. According to Stuker, there are why I hunt Block Management,” says Tim Zabrocki, a
are several advantages to enrolling land in Block Management as Montana resident hunter. “Compared to what I have experienced
opposed to leasing or outfitting. in other states, there is no comparison. To get the same kind of
“I have a number of friends and family that I wanted to access in other states that landowners provide through Montana
ensure had the ability to continue to hunt on my property,” said BMAs, you would likely have to pay large sums of money.”
Stuker. “Also, we have an abundant deer population on the ranch, Not only is Potter the hunting access coordinator for
and if you lease, it’s tougher to control deer populations.” Region 6, his family has had their own property enrolled in Block
Leonard Swenson, the current president of the Silver Dollar and Management for the last 10 years or so.
Whittmayer Grazing Associations in Valley County, was one “I figured if I talk the talk, we better walk the walk,”
of the original members of the associations that enrolled their laughs Potter. “Being enrolled in Block Management allows
collective deeded property in Block Management back in 1996. me to experience the same things that our cooperators do. Yes,
According to Swenson, the grazing associations are sometimes there are issues when hunters aren’t following the
“part of the cow business, not the hunting business,” but Block rules. But for the most part, it’s a great way to help continue the
Management was a good way for the associations to gain a few great tradition of hunting in Montana.”