Ep. 131 - Sen. Jon Tester and the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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BHA Podcast & Blast, Bonus Ep. 131, Sen. Jon Tester and the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act

To those outside of Montana, the Blackfoot River is the “Big Blackfoot” featured in Norman Maclean’s lyrical and tragic novel A River Runs Through It. For Montanans and generations of visitors, the Blackfoot is a state of being all its own, a big rowdy river of native cutthroats and bull trout, its waters born of both high-altitude wilderness snows and the tannin-stained, unfathomably rich chain of wetlands and lakes of the Clearwater drainage. It is a huge, complex and vibrant watershed, and as healthy as it is now, it was not always this way. Join us for an interview with Montana’s Sen. Jon Tester on why he is a die-hard supporter of the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act, supported by three-quarters of Montanans – hunters, anglers, bikers, loggers, ranchers and others – and which will guide the management and ensure the long-term health of this irreplaceable part of our public lands and waters legacy.

Learn more and take action in support of the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act right now.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody this is Hal Herring
0:02.2	hey backcountry hunters and anglers podcast and blasts
0:05.0	wanted to record this intro today
0:07.2	it's a short podcast
0:09.0	uh... senator john tester Montana
0:11.2	was generous enough to give us some time here to talk about the Blackfoot Clearwater
0:16.3	Stewardship Act and why he's been pushing this bill and this stone up the hill for over 10 years now fixing to get it across the
0:25.0	finish line I think and I wanted to talk with people about what it is and
0:29.8	why I'm a big supporter of it.
0:33.0	Those of you who, one, you can look up more information about it
0:37.0	that I won't have time to do here at Blackfootclearwater.org
0:41.0	will give you some good basics and some interviews
0:43.7	and videos of what's going on here.
0:46.7	And kind of, I keep saying what's at stake,
0:49.2	you know, but I'm not sure that that's, that's totally correct at this time. What's at stake really is a future that we want to see for one of the most iconic
0:58.8	watersheds and river systems and big game Country in North America.
1:04.4	So for those who don't know it, the big Blackfoot,
1:07.7	as Norman McClain called it,
1:09.5	in his book, a river runs through it It is The Blackfoot River.
1:14.2	It comes off of Born Up in Montero Creek and Rogers Pass, Montana.
1:20.3	All of this is very local to me.
1:22.3	And as we talk about a little bit on the podcast in my time
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