FROM: Rosalie Little Thunder, Pte Oyate Darrell Geist, Buffalo Field Campaign We write to you still in the aftershock of the unconscionable tribal participation in the most recent government […]
Government Plans to Kill the Messenger
The Idaho Fish and Game Department’s plan to poison or shoot up to 4,000 ravens in the state is appalling. It’s a preposterous proposal to kill native wildlife under the […]
Desert tortoise is the Nevada state reptile
The high regard Nevada places on tortoise lost in the media circus- In 1989, the State of Nevada made the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) the official state reptile. See http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/Nevada/reptiledeserttortoise.html. This […]
Groups File Notice of Intent to Sue Over Sheep Experiment Station.
Bozeman, MT. Today five conservation groups Cottonwood Environmental Law Center, Western Watersheds Project, WildEarth Guardians, Gallatin Wildlife Association and Yellowstone Buffalo Foundation sent the U.S. Department of Agriculture a notice […]
A Brief History of the public lands, the BLM and grazing
With the confusion over Bundy, a book by Dennis McLane is suddenly very relevant- Below is a history of grazing and the BLM the public needs to know. When Bundy cattle trespass situation […]
Enough “Mistakes.” Wildlife Services Should Put an End to its Indiscriminate Killing
The new film “Wild Things” exposes USDA’s war on wildlife- Each year Wildlife Services—a little known agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture—shoots, traps and poisons millions of animals, including […]
Jackson, Wyoming landslide moving fast enough to watch (now web cams)
Slide Web cams now added 4/19- http://imgur.com/a/XRMLl http://townofjackson.com/current/live-video-stream-budge-slide/ Jackson, WY. Efforts have stopped to build a tall concrete barrier to stall part of the East Gros Ventre Butte from giving […]
The Role of Livestock in Sage Grouse Decline
The Greater Sage Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) is the largest grouse in North America. The grouse is found in sagebrush steppe from Alberta to New Mexico and throughout the Great Basin […]