Montana's Paranoia of the White House

Here's just another example of the state's irrational paranoia of the US government.

Montana’s Congressman, Denny Rehberg, is calling on Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar to withdraw an administrative order that creates wilderness areas within states. Rehberg says the following: 

This is yet another arrogant example of the White House’s policy to enact sweeping changes in government with the stroke of a pen instead of having an open and transparent public process, said Rehberg. 

The idea that a small group of unelected Washington bureaucrats knows best how to manage public lands in Montana has actually hurt our environment and crippled our economy.  Still, the Interior Department continues to push the agenda of radical environmental special interest groups.  This has to stop.

Secretary Salazar’s Secretarial Order 3310 directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to designate appropriate areas with “wilderness characteristics” as “Wild Lands”, and to manage them to protect their “wilderness values.”  This sets the stage for more public land to be managed as de facto wilderness, stifling job creation by severely limiting agricultural, hunting and recreational uses, along with potential resource development.

Read the entire tantrum here: http://rehberg.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=26&parentid=5&sectiontree=5,26&itemid=1609