From the daily archives: Tuesday, November 13, 2012

BIRDS AND LIVESTOCK GRAZING-A REVIEW

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by George Wuerthner

Introduction

Livestock production is a contributing factor in the decline of many western species, including birds (Wuerthner and Matteson 2002). This is not surprising given the amount of land utilized for animal agriculture, including public and private lands. Approximately 578 million out of 1.9 billion acres in the West are grassland pasture [...]

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“The secretary regrets the exchange.” Who’s next at the Department of Interior?

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Yesterday the Desert Independent reported that on Election Day, after being asked about the treatment of wild horses and allegations made in a recent ProPublica article about the illegal sale of wild horses to a slaughter facility in Mexico, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar turned to the reporter and said “If you set me up like [...]

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Large Greater Yellowstone Grizzly Mortality in 2012, but Gov’t Agency says pop grew anyway

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At least 50 dead griz, but population said to grow by 15-

The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem stretches over about 18-million acres and into 3 states. Grizzly bears inhabit about 2/3 of that to some degree, hardly being confined to the smallish 2.2 million acres of Yellowstone National Park.

Grizzly bear numbers have been growing for [...]

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A Big Bonehead

(Cartoon by: Matt Wuerker | Date: May. 24, 2012)

Quote

‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey