Dear Oregon Bureau of Land Management staffers, I am writing today to ask you to please defend the proper administration of public lands. The recent decision to award Hammond Ranches, […]
Mexican wolf killings expose a dark underbelly of western culture
*Trigger warning: Animal cruelty and wolf abuse discussed below For over a year, my colleague at Western Watersheds Project and I have been paging through gory reports of dead livestock, […]
Federal Grazing Fees – The Hidden Subsidy
The following is a guest post by David Parsons, Wildlife Biologist with Project Coyote and The Rewilding Institute I’m writing in response to Greta Anderson’s 11/23/20 post titled “What does […]
What does coexistence with large carnivores actually mean?
In Mexican wolf country, ranchers and agencies bandy about the word ‘coexistence’ as if it means an end to conflict between humans and lobos. If only that were true, and […]
Wild Mexican Wolves At Risk
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is right now* working to remove a wolf or wolves from the Sheepherders Baseball Park or Pitchfork Canyon packs on the Gila National Forest […]
Bighorn Sheep from Two Herds are Sick and Dying Due to Disease Spread by Domestic Sheep
Guest opinion by Melissa Cain, Bighorn Conservation Director for Western Watersheds Project. Last week, wild bighorn sheep herds in Washington and Oregon have been detected with deadly pneumonia, likely caused […]
Taxpayers shell out huge subsidies to wolf-killer’s ranching enterprise
It’s been a while since there’s been news about public lands rancher/wolf killer Craig Thiessen from New Mexico. He’s the guy who pleaded guilty to killing a trapped Mexican gray […]
Is US Wildlife crying wolf on livestock deaths?
Readers of this blog won’t be the least bit surprised with the content of this op-ed by my colleague Cyndi Tuell, given the recent spate of pieces by me, here, […]