FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  
July 14, 2021

MCV: ‘Senator Daines Chooses Politics Over Public Lands. Again.’

Conservation group calls out Senator’s opposition to Stone-Manning

(BOZEMAN, Mont.) –  Montana Conservation Voters released the following statement from Executive Director Whitney Tawney in response to U.S. Senator Steve Daines joining fellow U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resource Republicans in a letter asking President Biden to withdraw fellow Montanan Tracy Stone-Manning’s nomination to lead the Bureau of Land Management:

“Being bipartisan is tough work and Senator Steve Daines just took the easy way out by bowing to partisan pressure and opposing Tracy Stone-Manning. Our outdoor way of life brings Montanans together and Senator Daines should know better given Stone-Manning’s wide range of support from loggers to sportsmen to green groups. Montanans should hold him accountable to the fullest extent for once again choosing politics over public lands.”

Last year, Senator Daines came under fire for his support of then-President Donald Trump’s controversial nominee for the BLM, William Perry Pendley, who was a proponent of selling federal public lands. Stone-Manning’s nomination has been welcomed with positive reactions from a broad range of Montanans who have worked with her on important and difficult issues throughout her time working for Montanans at the state and federal level.

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