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Salmon-Challis National Forest said to not enforce grazing laws-
Boise. ID. When you drive or hike into this east central Idaho high country (Idaho’s highest mountains), you would expect to see pristine creeks. On the Salmon-Challis NF, however, one is usually disappointed. The creeks are sacrificed to appease local ranchers with tiny amounts of extra grass [...]
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Are ranchers stupid? You might think so if you watch their behavior towards predators. For decades ranchers have declared war on coyotes. Despite their best efforts, coyotes not only survive, but thrive. Even with taxpayer subsidies to America’s welfare ranchers in the form of Animal Damage Control agents, and the slaughter of tens of [...]
Continue Reading →Holistic grazing guru pieces together false assumptions to produce ineffective but popular recommendations on climate change-
Allan Savory is a name not well known to most people concerned about climate change. However, he has been preaching his gospel of holistic grazing for a generation now and is somewhat loved by the Western livestock grazing industry, [...]
Continue Reading →Once again, it’s $1.35/AUM — just a token fee-
Like last year, the USFS and the BLM have announced that the 2013 grazing will a mere $1.35 per animal unit month (AUM).
In a news release, the agencies wrote: “An AUM or HM – treated as equivalent measures for fee purposes – is the [...]
I heard of this on the midday farm report on AM radio on Friday, here’s the scoop from Beef Magazine:
Live cattle futures collapsed in yesterday’s (Thursday) trading as Cargill announced that it would sharply reduce packing capacity in light of limited cattle supplies in the Texas Panhandle.
According to the Cargill press release, their [...]
Continue Reading →Lawsuit aims to take back majority of marsh land used to create the Refuge-
A lawsuit by landowners who helped create the Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge in 1965, now threatens is dismemberment.
One of the best known features of the obscure country between the eastern edge of the Snake River Plain and the Wyoming [...]
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Introduction
Livestock production is a contributing factor in the decline of many western species, including birds (Wuerthner and Matteson 2002). This is not surprising given the amount of land utilized for animal agriculture, including public and private lands. Approximately 578 million out of 1.9 billion acres in the West are grassland pasture [...]
Continue Reading →Deb Fisher, tea party, public land rancher versus Bob Kerry, former Nebraska senator-
This was a race Republicans thought they would not have to worry about because the state has become quite red, and the retiring Democratic Senator Ben Nelson, offers Republicans a chance to pick up a seat and win the U.S. Senate.
Bob [...]
Continue Reading →Not really, but why were 80% of released documents on Mexican wolf capture plans redacted?
Last August the conservation group WildEarth Guardians requested the documents about a planned removal of a female Mexican wolf whose pack might have killed up to six cattle near the SW corner of New Mexico.
Folks are often suspicious of [...]
Continue Reading →Badly managed cattle devastate the most remote public lands-
“Till the cows come home” . . . that phase usually means a long time. That’s how it is on most of public lands of the Western United States. The cattle are put out before the grass and forbs (perennial flowers) are sturdy and ready for [...]
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