Todd Helms

1 week ago | blog.eastmans.com | Todd Helms

Home / Free Content / Helicopter-Hunting Still Legal In Montana Free Content, General, Montana, Public Lands 5 Views “Hunters flying in to a landlocked spot will have to wait 24 hours before they can legally hunt under the new bill.” Using a helicopter to access landlocked parcels of public land is becoming more popular in places like Montana, much to the chagrin of folks without the inclination or money to utilize the method of transportation. Nevermind that folks wanting to access the...

1 week ago | blog.eastmans.com | Todd Helms

$2.5 Million will be going into Montana’s public access account in order to open up more Block Management ground for hunting access. Good news right? Well, yes and no…Montana, like the rest of us, can’t just print money so that $2.5 Million has to come from someplace and that someplace will be an increase in cost to the base hunting license for non-resident hunters. Right now the non-resident base hunting license cost is $15, but HB 145, signed into law by Gov.

2 weeks ago | blog.eastmans.com | Todd Helms

Nice work to everyone who took the time to send your elected representatives a message, email or made a call to express your opposition to the proposed sale of 1.5 million acres of your public land in Nevada and Utah. That’s how “government of the people, by the people, for the people…,” is supposed to work and it appears that it has indeed done just that. I would also encourage you to send a thank you for listening message as well.

2 weeks ago | blog.eastmans.com | Todd Helms

Home / California / California Wolves Don’t Fear Humans California, Free Content, General, Predator, Wolves 400 Views Modoc, Plumas, Sierra and Shasta county officials have recently declared that the wolves they’ve been forced to live in close proximity to are a threat to the well being of the people. In other words, those folks are afraid that the wolves, who have a penchant for killing livestock in and around homes and ranches, have grown complacent toward humans thanks to California laws...

3 weeks ago | blog.eastmans.com | Todd Helms

“Get to tha choppa!” If this headline had appeared on April 1st instead of May 4th nobody would have taken it seriously. That’s just how outlandish an act three Montana National Guardsmen pulled off last week outside of Big Timber, Montana. The three men in question, landed a Blackhawk helicopter on private land, jumped out and scooped up brown elk sheds worth thousands of dollars.