Forest on the Ochoco National Forest. Photo by George Wuerthner Hurray for Central Oregon Land Watch and Oregon Wild for suing the Ochoco National Forest over its proposed Black […]
Impacts of Mountain Biking
Mountain Biking is a significant threat to our wildlands—both in designated preserves like national parks, wilderness areas, and the like, but also Wilderness Study Areas (WSA) and roadless lands that […]
Cattle Grazing On Montana’s Spotted Dog Wildlife Management Area
Recently the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MDFWP) Commission voted to permit cattle grazing on the Spotted Dog Wildlife Management Area (WMA). Approval of livestock grazing on the […]
Gallatin Range Deserves Wilderness Designation
Buffalo Horn drainage The Gallatin Range that lies south of Bozeman, Montana is the largest unprotected wildlands in the northern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). The Gallatin Range is highly scenic […]
Controversy in Idaho Legislature over the threat posed by the meningeal worm to elk, mule deer, and moose
Elk breeders push to relax rules. Legislature close to rejecting the breeders- White-tailed deer and the parasitic meningeal worm (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) coexist fairly well. They have fought each other to […]
Close elk feeding grounds, make elk migrate, avoid disease disaster
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has been found in elk, deer, and moose in several areas of Wyoming and has been moving ever closer to the already brucellosis infected elk herds […]
Sage Grouse hunting in decline for similar reasons as elk declines
The sage grouse population of Idaho has been in steep decline for years. It is now getting to the point where hunting has declined to a one-week season where hunters […]