LAS VEGAS— Conservation groups have called on Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to round up and remove the cattle of rancher Cliven Bundy, who has been illegally grazing his livestock on public lands for two and a half decades.
U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro on Monday dismissed all charges against Cliven Bundy and his sons […]
Continue Reading →Stale data, failure to improve poor habitat conditions doom grazing project
For immediate release, August 1, 2017
Media contact: Greta Anderson, Western Watersheds Project (520) 623-1878; greta@westernwatersheds.org
BOISE, Ida. – Today, in a sharply worded rebuke to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an administrative […]
Continue Reading →The 4th Annual Speak for Wolves will take place on July 27-29, 2017 in the Historic Union Pacific Dining Lodge in West Yellowstone, Montana. This annual wildlife advocacy conference in the heart of Yellowstone is a family-friendly event featuring guest speakers, live music, food, poetry, book readings, panel discussions and a field trip. […]
Continue Reading →National Forests across the West are facing dire threats from politicians, the timber industry and the Forest Service. The public is currently being misled into thinking that our forests are “unhealthy”, and that they need to be “restored” due to “beetle infestations” and “insect and disease.” All of this is euphemism to drastically ramp up […]
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On February 27th, Judge Gloria Navarro of the U.S. District Court of Nevada handed down a ruling with major implications for Cliven Bundy and his allies in the land-seizure movement. The ruling assessed $587,294.28 in penalties against rancher Wayne N. Hage who, like Cliven Bundy, was trespassing his livestock on federal public lands for […]
Continue Reading →Bears Ears in SE Utah and Gold Butte near Mesquite, Nevada declared to be national monuments
Gold Butte National Monument is near where Cliven Bundy ran his illegal cattle. I’ve been there. It is scenic and historical, and has obviously been abused by local troublemakers and general lack of recreational management. I see it is […]
Continue Reading →Rarely given more than minimal herding, Bundy’s cattle seem now to be on their own-
Many people argue that Nevada, the driest state, is really no place for cattle, grass-loving creatures that they are. Nonetheless, herds of widely spaced cattle have pummeled the landscape there for over a hundred years.
For a generation Cliven Bundy […]
Continue Reading →Texas right wing religious nut in Idaho to scam delegates-
Ted Cruz, the most immoderate person running for President, is in Idaho stumping for Republican delegates to be chosen in their March 8 primary election.
It is not impossible that Ted Cruz could win enough delegates to throw the Republican convention into brokering a candidate. […]
Continue Reading →Huge Nevada monument riles Republican extremists-
President Obama has added over a million acres to the national parks system by designating three new national monuments on U.S. public lands. They are in Texas, California, and Nevada.
They are Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, 331,000 acres in Northern California, Continue Reading →
Montana is the exception by killing bill to create a land transfer task force-
All of the Western states now entertain bills to take the public lands from the United States and give, transfer or take them for the individual states. Some Republicans in Congress are trying to get the proposed redistribution of land going by […]
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