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The sides, unfortunately that is the way it appears, are getting ready for the public meetings for the restoration of a grizzly bear population in Washington’s North Cascades Ecosystem. The first one is March 3 in Winthrop, WA. Here is the complete list.
Tuesday, March 3rd in Winthrop from 5-7:30 p.m. at the Red Barn Upper […]
Continue Reading →Biggest water user is most definitely not the cities of the West-
When we look at biggest use of water in the Western United States, livestock, meaning cattle, stands alone.
It’s February 2015 and most of the West remains locked in a great drought. It covers all of the West except Montana, Wyoming and about […]
Continue Reading →INTRODUCTION
Rangelands make up a large proportion of the Earth’s surface, and the soils hold a significant amount of sequestered carbon. Rangelands are estimated to contain more than one-third of the world’s above and below ground carbon reserves.[i] As a consequence, there is interest in determining the potential for soil carbon sequestration in […]
Continue Reading →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 →
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 […]
Continue Reading →Because of the current open comment period on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on the Proposed Rule Changes for Mexican Wolf Reintroduction and the recent hearings on the same, I’ve been spending a bit of time with the DEIS and trying to wade through all 467 pages of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s new […]
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COWSPIRACY: THE SUSTAINABILITY SECRET VIDEO HITS A HOME RUN
I recently had the pleasure of viewing new video of Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret. The basic question these two film makers ask is why the contribution of livestock to ecosystem degradation is missing from the world’s environmental agenda. To find […]
Continue Reading →News Release.
WWP refutes rancher claims and files counterclaims-
Jackson, WY—A month ago the Western Watersheds Project was sued by a group of Wyoming ranchers who alleged the group trespassed in order to collect samples of poor quality water from streams within public grazing allotments on federal land. Now the Western Watersheds Project (WWP) has filed its answer to those claims, […]
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