Its time to give the Breaks a restOur view

Its time to give the Breaks a rest

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All the fuss about the Upper Missouri Breaks National Monument has gone on far too long.

Regrettably, now Denny Rehberg, Montana's Republican congressman, has entered the fray and he might have checked his facts better before he stepped in.

Rehberg sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton last week, taking the side of some property owners next to the Breaks who oppose the monument designation.

When President Clinton designated the monument at the end of his second term, some 80,000 acres of private land were included within the monument...