By Laura Cunningham, California Director, Western Watersheds Project A controversy has irrupted in a volcanic caldera used for livestock grazing in the scenic Eastern Sierra region of California. Ditch irrigation […]
Federal court rules against Wyoming’s ag-gag laws
By Erik Molvar Credit: Photo by Steve Stevens courtesy Flickr Creative Commons A federal court has ruled that a Wyoming statutes designed to suppress the collection of “resource data” by […]
The Rhetoric and Reality of Death by Grizzly
Despite Wyoming Game and Fish’s official conclusion to the investigation into Mark Uptain’s death, the only takeaway from which is that they killed the “right” bears, I still find myself […]
Federal Court Strikes Down Wyoming’s “Data Trespass” Laws as Unconstitutional
Editor’s note: many articles were written about this back in 2015-16. It was one of the most serious attempts in Utah, Idaho or Wyoming commonly know as “ag-gag bills,” to […]
Blood letting and wildfires
In Medieval society, if someone were sick, the common solution was to bleed the patient to rid the body of “bad” blood. If the patient recovered, then obviously bleeding was […]
Pryor Bighorn National Monument?
The highest reaches of the Pryor Mountains are covered with alpine meadows. Photo George Wuerthner Billings, Montana has seen a steady increase in population and economic diversity. In all likelihood, […]
Will Congress turn Pt. Reyes National Seashore over to Dairy Outfits?
They are attempting an incredible public land grab By Erik Molvar Point Reyes is about as far west as you can go in the lower 48 states. Here, where coastal […]
Livestock’s impact on wilderness
“The grazing of livestock, where established prior to the effective date of this Act, shall be permitted to continue subject to such reasonable regulations as are deemed necessary by the Secretary of […]