Speak for Wolves 2015: Wildlife management reform objective number 2

By On March 22, 2015 · 7 Comments · In Activism, B.L.M., Cattle, Conservation, Domestic Sheep, Forest Service, Grazing and Livestock, Invasive Species, Montana, Politics, Public Land Management, Public Lands, Soil, Threats, Trees Forests, Water, Wildlife, Wildlife Habitat, Winter Range, Wolves

Wildlife management reform objective two-

Recently we discussed the first objective in reforming the broken system of wildlife management we see in America today.  That was to restructure the state fish and game departments.  Here is the second:

2. Remove Grazing From All Federal Public Lands

Grazing is the most ecologically damaging form of land use in the arid America West. Research has proven that non-native livestock is responsible for soil compaction, destruction of wetlands and riparian zones, a decrease in water retention and aquifer recharge, soil erosion, flooding, a net-loss of biodiversity and large amounts of methane gas.

Livestock grazing contributes to the spread of harmful invasive plant species, which greatly affects the West’s historic fire regime. To make matters worse, the American taxpayer heavily subsidizes destructive grazing practices every year to the tune of tens, if not, hundreds of millions of dollars.

At the very least, the federal grazing fee ($1.69 cow/calf pair) must be substantially raised to recoup administrative costs. Voluntary grazing retirement (grazing permits to be bought out by conservation groups) needs to be enabled on all federal public lands. Congress must stop using legislative riders to handicap the ability of federal land and wildlife agencies, and the public, to use our public land laws to asses the cumulative impacts of harmful grazing.

Speak for Wolves is a project that aims to educate, inspire and organize citizens to work towards reforming wildlife management in America. You can join with fellow wildlife advocates on August 7-9, 2015 at the Union Pacific Dining Lodge in West Yellowstone, Montana.
We will present and discuss the next 3 objectives in the near future.

To learn more go to the event website.

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Brett Haverstick

Brett Haverstick is the Education & Outreach Director for Friends of the Clearwater, a public lands advocacy group in Moscow, Idaho. He has a Masters of Natural Resources from the University of Idaho. In his personal time, he manages the project Speak for Wolves. The views expressed here are his own.

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7 Responses to Speak for Wolves 2015: Wildlife management reform objective number 2

  1. avatar Ida Lupines says:
    March 23, 2015 at 9:14 am

    “In three seasons, hunters killed more than 1,500 wolves in the Great Lakes region, according to the tribe.”

    Red Cliff Tribe Rolls Out Wolf Protection Plan, Declares Itself A Wolf Sanctuary.

    Thank you, Red Cliff Tribe!!!

  2. avatar ramses09 says:
    March 23, 2015 at 6:21 pm

    Thank You Red Cliff Tribe!!

  3. avatar Joanne Favazza says:
    March 30, 2015 at 3:22 pm

    Thanks Brett. I really enjoyed the event last year. Wish I could make it this year. I’ll be there in spirit!
    Speak For Wolves!

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‎"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."

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