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Stephany Seay, Buffalo Field Campaign, 406-640-0109, bfc-media@wildrockies.org
Yellowstone National Park. Gardiner Basin, MT. Since Wednesday an estimated 200 of America’s last wild, migratory buffalo have been crammed into tribal stock trailers at Yellowstone National Park’s Stephens Creek bison trap. The bison have been […]
Continue Reading →The plan to take away our public lands has its best chance ever with this new Congress. Here is some recent news from various places.
In Utah, Ex-secretary of Interior Babbit denounces the land grab-
In Salt Lake City, Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbit has denounced Utah’s role in the effort to seize […]
Continue Reading →TWN contributor Brian Ertz’s sister, Natalie Ertz, is featured in the latest National Geographic in a story by Christopher Ketcham. It’s about “Echo,” the lone wolf that dispersed all the way to the Grand Canyon coming from Utah or Colorado, but originally from among the wolves of the Northern Rockies.
Continue Reading →Election results put takers of U.S. public land in a good position?
The 2014 congressional elections put an increased number of supporters and sympathizers of the states taking the public lands of the United States in office. They want the states to take over the national forests, the BLM lands, maybe the national wildlife refuges, and even some […]
Continue Reading →Three men face charges of operating drones and more-
Yellowstone National Park. At first, the Park Service took an “educational” stance as they informed people about the new ban on drones in the Park. Now, however, there have been three “egregious violations of this ban.” Three men face criminal charges in these separate incidents.
The […]
Continue Reading →Other drone users just warned-
What rangers saw as a bad attitude by an illegal drone user in Grand Teton National Park resulted in the first ticket for drone use in that national park. According to the Jackson Hole News the man had got his drone stuck in a tree in the Gros Ventre Campground. […]
Continue Reading →Bison allowed to wander Jackson Hole, WY at will-
We have written about bison in Wyoming versus inside Montana a number of times, but not for a couple years. Because of the constant public hostility of Montana’s Department of Livestock (the DOL) and the less-than-in-depth reporting by Montana traditional media, folks probably forget that Montana’s […]
Continue Reading →Action taken to nip the drone problem in the bud-
Yesterday the National Park Service banned the use of private drones in all the parks. The ban is temporary while a permanent policy is set in place, but there is little reason to think the ban will be reversed.
Earlier we did a Continue Reading →
Land transfer to states would mean less land access for typical American-
The idea that the states are really the constitutional, legal, rightful owner of the U.S. public lands is without merit.
Origin of U.S. public lands
The United States owns 650-million acres of land. That is about 30 per cent of the land area of […]
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