Rehberg sets listening session on Baucus' Rocky Mountain Front act

A high-profile issue has Rep. Denny Rehberg holding a meeting Saturday to hear people's views on Sen. Max Baucus' bill on managing the Rocky Mountain Front.

Rehberg, R-Mont., set a listening session in Choteau to discuss the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act, written by Baucus, D-Mont, and cosponsored by Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., whom Rehberg is challenging in this year's Senate race.

Rehberg has been a critic of a bill sponsored by Tester that would mandate logging on U. S. Forest Service land and create new recreation areas and new wilderness areas in western Montana.

"Most of Senator Baucus...