Barry Twardoski

PLOS ONE, Aug 2023 Prion diseases are transmissible, fatal neurologic diseases that include Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in humans, chronic wasting disease (CWD) in cervids, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle and scrapie in sheep. Prions are extremely difficult to inactivate and established methods to reduce prion infectivity are often dangerous, caustic, expensive, or impractical.

Early this year, thousands of Montanans packed the state capitol and made it abundantly clear that they want nothing to do with the fool’s errand of transferring ownership or management of our national public lands to the states. Montanans traveled from as far as Whitefish and Billings for the public lands rally because they knew that Montana could never afford to manage an additional 27 million acres of public lands.