The Idaho Fish and Game Department’s plan to poison or shoot up to 4,000 ravens in the state is appalling. It’s a preposterous proposal to kill native wildlife under the […]
The Role of Livestock in Sage Grouse Decline
The Greater Sage Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) is the largest grouse in North America. The grouse is found in sagebrush steppe from Alberta to New Mexico and throughout the Great Basin […]
Don’t Let Idaho Wolf Management Become a Distraction from Idaho’s Sage Grouse Management
With all of the horrible things happening in Idaho’s wolf management, it is hard to focus on other, perhaps more, important issues facing Idaho wildlife. With a deadline of 2015 […]
Sage Grouse Can’t Fly…. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
This morning I came across an editorial in the Las Vegas Review-Journal that was obviously written by someone who knows next to nothing about sage grouse. As most of you know, […]
Sage Grouse, Livestock Grazing, and the Bovine Curtain
There is a lot in the news about the potential listing of sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act. Western politicians are using heated rhetoric about how a listing would […]
Western Watersheds Project Litigates 145,000 Acre Vegetation Treatment Project in Nevada
In early June, Katie Fite and I visited southeast Nevada to examine the results of past vegetation treatments meant to “restore” sage grouse habitat in the Schell Field Office of […]
How Grazing Reform in the Owyhees and Protections for Sage Grouse are Being Politically Undermined
The month of March was an active month for sage grouse. Not only have sage grouse started to assemble on their strutting grounds known as leks due to the abnormally […]
Huge Owyhee Grazing Environmental Assessment Glosses Over Conditions, Avoids Real Solutions
The Owyhee BLM has finally issued a Proposed Decision on the so-called “Group 1” allotments but, unfortunately, the BLM really doesn’t go far enough to reverse damage caused by decades […]