House Bill 372, important legislation to strengthen Montana’s right to hunt, fish and trap has passed the House Judiciary Committee and could be voted on the House floor at any time. Please use our Take Action button to email your state Representative and urge them to SUPPORT HB 372.
As previously reported, animal-rights extremists are working every possible angle to eliminate hunting, fishing and trapping so Montana needs this important enhanced protection added to the state Constitution.
Concerns about private property rights were expressed at the hearing, which is clearly addressed in HB 372.
The new right to hunt, fish and trap language reads:
The citizens of Montana have the right to hunt, fish, trap, and harvest wild fish and wildlife, including the right to use current means and methods, which does not create or imply any right of public trespass on private property or diminish in any way vested private property rights. The state shall give preference to hunting, fishing, and trapping by citizens as the primary but not exclusive means of the state’s management of wild fish and wildlife populations for the benefit of all Montanans. This right is subject to the necessary management statutes enacted by the legislature and regulatory authority delegated by the legislature to a designated public agency or commission.
Don’t forget to share this message with your family, friends and fellow sportsmen, and ask them to email the committee to urge support for HB 372.
About the Sportsmen’s Alliance: The Sportsmen’s Alliance protects and defends America’s wildlife conservation programs and the pursuits – hunting, fishing and trapping – that generate the money to pay for them. Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation is responsible for public education, legal defense and research. Its mission is accomplished through several distinct programs coordinated to provide the most complete defense capability possible. Stay connected to Sportsmen’s Alliance: Online, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
