McCain, Obama Talk Sportsmen’s Issues with Field & Stream. By Matthew Frank. New West.
Some folks will like to hear this . . . “[Obama’s] favorite piece of public land is Yellowstone.”
All in all, too much talk about guns. This should be a minor issue for hunters now that the Supreme Court interpreted […]
Continue Reading →Grazing domestic sheep in bighorn habitat exposes bighorn to deadly disease and massive die-offs. Western Watersheds Project successfully brought this point to the Payette National Forest via federal court winning a temporary halt to grazing domestic sheep in the critical bighorn habitat of Hells Canyon and the Salmon River. Because of these decisions, the Payette […]
Continue Reading →Every once in awhile it’s good to take a look at a really biased piece about wolves to attempt to better understand. This one’s from Sweet :
Cattleman: ‘I’ve always respected wolves – until now’ – 2news.tv
It’s often good to ask, ‘What emotional or mythical mechanisms does the writer and/or cattleman of this piece […]
Continue Reading →Rocky Barker gives an account of the divergent views expressed at a recent panel in Boise about how to take on environmental challenges in the West.
Idaho moves the ball forward on environmental policy – Letters from the West
The post gives a few quotes that are quite representative of the different models […]
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