While Idaho taxpayers are facing budget cuts to public education and health care, ranchers are busy writing self-serving bills to provide money for “studies” that will paper over destructive impacts […]
Slavery or Indentured Servitude in Idaho?
The average sheep herder who comes to work in the US under the H2A immigrant worker program gets paid only $650-$750 per month. Many of the workers come from South […]
What will happen to national parks under the sequester?”
Sequester looks almost certain. What now happens to public lands? The New York Times article linked below discusses the effects of the now almost certain sequester on the national […]
WOLVES, STATE AGENCIES AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
By George Wuerthner State Fish and Game agencies are in the midst of a funding and mission crisis. They appear unable to adapt to shifting political and demographic changes much […]
Remarkably unpleasant story of failed ID Fish Game Commission nominee continues
Takedown of Hurlock makes Idaho State Senate look awful- We don’t know if she should be commissioner or not, but Rocky Barker’s story on the aftermath details of her defeated […]
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State Public Records Request Shows Widespread Capture and Mortality of Non-Target Animals Related to Idaho Wolf Trapping During 2011/2012 Trapping Season
Rare Fishers Heavily Impacted A response to a state public records request, submitted by Western Watersheds Project to the Idaho Fish and Game Department, shows widespread capture and mortality of non-target […]
Unsurprisingly, the Idaho Senate rejects Hurlock confirmation to the Idaho Fish and Game Commission
The Idaho Senate has voted against confirming Joan Hurlock to the Idaho Fish and Game Commission. Citing that “there’s a fear of some environmentalism here. The sportsmen are worried” Senator […]