For those of you with a Harper’s Magazine subscription, you’re in for a treat with Christopher Ketcham’s article They shoot buffalo, don’t they: Hazing America’s last wild herd in Harper’s most recent edition. Ketcham gets it right again.
For those of you, like myself, who don’t have a subscription to the publication, get on […]
Continue Reading →The oil & gas and livestock industries continue to feel the pressure from land use agencies as the evidence piles up indicating that these extractive uses of our public lands are significantly contributing to the precipitous decline in sage grouse numbers.
Sage grouse are described as the “spotted owl” of the ranching industry in […]
Continue Reading →Plans are underway begin developing public lands to accommodate big energy, a move which promises to further fragment already diminishing wildlife habitat :
Feds begin scoping for Gateway West transmission project – Casper Star Tribute
Many of these areas are some of the last best habitat for wildlife such as sage grouse, pygmy rabbit, […]
Continue Reading →Whatever your take on whether the quid pro quo is worth it with wilderness designation, we’re in a different political atmosphere and that is beginning to show results – the bills are getting better :
Simpson removes criticized portion of Boulder-White Clouds wilderness bill – Idaho Statesman
94 federal acres that would have been […]
Continue Reading →Sage grouse ~ sign of rock hopping in the mud in the Jarbidge:
“sure shows why petroglyphs are so alluring – their irregularities imitate nature more precisely than a symmetrical or polished western-style depiction/image …”
Photograph © Katie Fite 2008 – Western Watersheds Project
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