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Wildlife conservation needs big money to beat back militant ignorance-
Over the years those favoring wildlife conservation found a strategy that worked to build up both the number and diversity of wildlife in the United States.
Until recently those who saw wildlife only as (1) pests or potential pests or (2) animals waiting to become [...]
Continue Reading →Rural Economic Vitalization Act reintroduced-
The Rural Economic Vitalization Act (REVA) would allow private parties to pay willing ranchers to relinquish their grazing permits on public lands, and then the grazing allotment would then be permanently closed to livestock grazing. U.S. Representative Adam Smith of Washington State has just reintroduced this legislation.
Conservationists and economists [...]
Continue Reading →Western Watersheds Project and Wild Utah Project had a significant win this week on the Duck Creek allotment of Utah. In the longest running administrative grazing appeal hearing in the history of the Department of the Interior, including 12 weeks of hearings and a record of 15,000 pages, WWP demonstrated that [...]
Continue Reading →With no predators, high reproduction rate, millions of hungry hogs tear up American landscape-
Like most omnivores, pigs are smart. In addition, they are big, requiring a lot of food, and are physiologically similar enough to humans to share and transmit many of our diseases.
Pigs have been escaping from farms for a very long [...]
Continue Reading →In January of 2012 the gray wolves in Michigan lost their federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. Eleven months later, late in Dec. 2012, a bill was introduced by R-Sen. Tom Casperson of Escanaba that would designate wolves as a game species. The bill was passed and Gov. Rick Snyder signed the bill.
Designating [...]
Continue Reading →Brian Horejsi takes some wind out-
In the United States we are familiar with livestock operators in grizzly country often complaining about how they have a lot of trouble with grizzly bears.
A half century ago, the province of Alberta had many more of the great bear than the struggling American populations south of the [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve been studying fire ecology for decades, an interest which led to the publication in 2006 of my book WIldfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy. My interest in wildfire did not end with the book and I have continued to read and digest the fire-related literature, attend conferences, and most importantly visit and observe [...]
Continue Reading →The month of March was an active month for sage grouse. Not only have sage grouse started to assemble on their strutting grounds known as leks due to the abnormally warm start of the month but the season for strutting has begun Washington D.C. and Boise, Idaho and other areas in western states. On March [...]
Continue Reading →Surprising many, a last minute bill that would grant cattle and sheep the right to vote passed in the Idaho Legislature in a late night session that began at midnight. SB9246, titled “The Livestock Equal Rights, Welfare, and Voting Rights Act”, is a sweeping bill that grants livestock the right to the vote in all [...]
Continue Reading →One of the five is a large parcel of natural land in New Mexico-
Almost every President since Theodore Roosevelt has declared national monuments. The three greatest have been T.R. himself, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. George W. Bush finally declared a very large national monument in the ocean — the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, [...]
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