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Wyoming legislature considers a rancher grudge bill due to Western Watershed’s Jonathan Ratner-
By Ralph Maughan (opinion)
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Last year the Idaho Legislature passed an an overreaching “ag-gag” bill because an animal rights group had videoed some dairy workers abusing cattle. This came despite the the dairy ending up fined as […]
Continue Reading →“The Great Republican Land Heist: Cliven Bundy and the politicians who want to plunder the West”
Christopher Ketcham details the rancher/Republican grab for our outdoor heritage-
Cristopher Ketcham has been writing about the Western public lands now for a couple years. He is in the mold of Bernard DeVoto who wrote the influential column, […]
Continue Reading →Chatham House Research Paper
Rob Bailey, Antony Froggatt and Laura Wellesley
Energy, Environment and Resources | December 2014
SUMMARY: This new research paper describes many of the findings that have been in other recent reports such as the UN Livestock’s Long Shadow
http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.HTM
World Watch’s comprehensive report Livestock and Climate Change Continue Reading →
Bighorn sheep near the northern entrance of Yellowstone National Park are dying from pneumonia. Pneumonia outbreaks in bighorn sheep are often associated with contact with domestic sheep or goats which carry many pathogens that cause pneumonia in bighorn sheep but do not affect domestic sheep or goats.
According to a press release by Montana […]
Continue Reading →Send public comments now on new EA for predator damage management by Wildlife Services in Idaho-
USDA’s Wildlife Services in Idaho is writing a new environmental analysis (EA) on how to manage damage by predators in Idaho. It will replace all existing EAs.
According to the announcement, “Predator species involved in the majority of conflicts […]
Continue Reading →WASHINGTON — The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) soon to be considered by the U.S. House of Representatives contains several provisions that would undermine current efforts to protect greater sage grouse on nearly 60 million acres of public lands, and would lead to listing greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act. The livestock lobby […]
Continue Reading →The bull trout, a char, is listed under the Endangered Species Act as threatened in the lower 48 states. It has been extirpated from about 60 percent of its natural range. Worse, like many native salmonids, it is primarily found in headwater streams with little connectivity to larger river systems. The bull trout is a top apex predator, and as a […]
Continue Reading →In a recent blog post, Defenders of Wildlife is grossly misleading the public claiming that they have “saved the last wild bison” by participating in and supporting the quarantine of buffalo that originated as wild calves from Yellowstone. Quarantine is a domestication process. There is no benefit from quarantine to bison as wildlife. Quarantine […]
Continue Reading →PEER creates a BLM Rangelands Health map-
Grazing activists are going to cheer an interactive map created by PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility).
As they sent their comments on the Greater sage grouse to the US. Fish and Wildlife Service, PEER wrote:
The comments are […]
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