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Representatives of the Utah corporation trying to enlarge the Holland Lake Lodge claim they have the same values as Montanans. Montanans attending Tuesday night’s public meeting on the proposal didn’t agree.
Bill Lombardi writes, The Forest Service quickly lost the trust of the public because of an obscure and confusing public scoping process and a failure to be totally transparent when this project was initially hatched.
As of Wednesday, two weeks into the public comment period, more than 1,500 people have submitted comments on the proposal. More than 600 were added just since Tuesday.
In 1999, the Montana Legislature enacted a law, H.B. 412, requiring state agencies that own or manage public land to rename any sites or geographic locations that contain the derogatory