Steve Gallizioli, retired Wildlife Management Division Chief of the Arizona Game and Fish Department, talks about an early experience with how politics within the Forest Service negatively affects their management of public lands.
This video is an excerpt from an interview conducted as research for Western Turf Wars: The Politics of Public Lands Ranching.
Continue Reading →On September 14 and 15 Katie Fite and I visited the Miller Creek Allotment on the Mountain City Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest to check out the riparian areas there. What we found was just a horrible mess that any land manager should be embarrassed about enough to actually do something about but, [...]
Continue Reading →Hiker outraged at bovine caused mess at what is arguably Idaho’s most beautiful alpine lake-
The Pioneers are the second highest mountain range in Idaho. They are of beautiful, hard glaciated rock, carved into giant peaks, spires, lake-filled cirques and waterfalls with wildflower meadows some of the time before the cattle reach them. Livestock grazing [...]
Continue Reading →GOP-backed bill tries to give Homeland Security a pass on environmental laws within 100 miles of international borders for “national security”
The “National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act (H.R. 1505),” is slowly moving in the GOP-controlled House. So far hearings have been held. Supporters say it would help border patrol activities by waiving 36 [...]
Continue Reading →Don Oman describes the livestock management and environmental conditions that he encountered on the Twin Falls District (southern Idaho) of the Sawtooth National Forest upon his becoming the district ranger in 1986.
Oman was raised on a Montana farm and went on to earn his bachelor’s degree in forest management from the University of Montana. [...]
Continue Reading →Twin Falls Ranger District’s Trout Creek, habitat for the Yellowstone cutthroat trout, was among the locations found damaged by livestock grazing when Don Oman became the district ranger in 1986. In this video, Mr. Oman describes the dramatic environmental improvement that occurred after livestock were excluded from a short segment of the creek.
Don [...]
Continue Reading →Like an oak. The stubborn Brandborgs and the fight for wilderness
by Jessica Mayer. The Missoula Independent.
I have heard tales of Stewart Brandborg since I was a young man. I’ve never met him. He still lives in the Bitterroot Valley and fights on. It isn’t just [...]
Continue Reading →Folks continue to have plenty to say-
Here is the story on the coming third week of testimony, from the Spokesman-Review.
It seems to me that local folks willing to testify are mostly unhappy. Here is a detailed story about past testimony in [...]
Continue Reading →Rocky Barker has a blog today about the upcoming status of public lands in the government shutdown.
National forests and BLM lands will remain open but national parks close. By Rocky Barker. Idaho Statesman
Update. Looks like some deal was worked out late Friday night. Government remains open
Continue Reading →Shutdown is likely. National Parks will be closed. Other public lands?
It looks more and more like a government shutdown of uncertain duration. Dept of Interior just made it clear that national parks and monuments will be closed down and “secured.” I have to wonder what will happen come Saturday to all those currently inside [...]
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