Why does this economically modest and destructive economic activity get so much priority?
A recent report published by the Department of Interior demonstrates what conservation advocates have been arguing for years: Recreational use of public lands creates many more jobs and much more economic value than public lands ranching.
Department of the Interior’s Economic […]
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Q-fever is a little-know, under-reported disease that sheep, goats, and cattle carry and transmit to humans. Listed as a potential bio-terrorism agent, recreationists – especially those with immunity issues, children and pregnant women – should take proper precautions to avoid domestic sheep on public lands […]
Continue Reading →Lines between Livestock, Sporting and Gun Groups Continue to Blur
John Campbell (R-CA), Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Gary Peters (D-MI) co-sponsored the bipartisan Lethal Predator Control Amendment, an amendment t0 H.R. 2112 (the Agriculture appropriations bill), which would have cut Wildlife Service’s $11 million appropriation used for a program that kills predators on behalf of […]
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