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Cody Roberts is publicly known as a Daniel, Wyoming trucking contractor and the defendant in a wolf cruelty case that ended in probation. The deeper scandal is the legal culture around him: Wyoming still lets predators be pursued by motorized vehicles while punishing only the suffering that becomes too visible to ignore.
The Larabee Hat fight is not just about one Montana logging project. It shows how an administration can shrink wildlife protection by changing the definition first, then claiming the habitat math still works.
Trump's environmental policy is not one chemical fight. It is a stack of choices that puts extraction, cost relief, and industrial flexibility ahead of habitat, drinking water, insects, wildlife, and public-land safety.
M-44 devices are baited cyanide ejectors built to kill coyotes and other canids. The policy reversal reopens a risk file involving wildlife, pets, children, ranching interests, and 245 million acres of BLM land.
The firm's own site lists Mark Bottles as principal and broker, Jacob Bottles as principal and agent, and says Mark Bottles has brokered more than $4 billion in real estate.
If you want to know who helped a Tull-adjacent land play move, start with the officials already on the paper: the Idaho Department of Lands, the State Board of Land Commissioners, and local actors like Ron James who declined to join the objection.
Official records and reporting describe land interest, political money, philanthropy, and local government decision-making colliding around one county commissioner and one billionaire ranch owner.
Official records and reporting describe a federal program spending most of its money after removal, not on the range itself, while private operators keep winning million-dollar awards to warehouse the animals BLM keeps taking off public land.
Official records and reporting describe a huge and still-growing federal removal machine, with tens of thousands of animals warehoused off-range and a documented history of horses dying during major gathers.
A 20-year withdrawal built through comments, consultations, and formal review is now being challenged so a mining project can get another shot at protected ground.