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 →
It is time for another new page for wildlife news. Please use “comment” at the bottom to post your news. Do not post entire articles unless you have our permission, or post copyrighted materials unless you own the copyright. Here is the link to the most recent (Dec. 19) […]
Continue Reading →Twenty Year Anniversary of Wolf Restoration Gray Wolves Returned January 12, 1995-
Twenty years! January 12, 2015, marks the 20-year anniversary of the return of gray wolves to their rightful place and vital role in the Northern Rockies ecosystem!On that fateful date in 1995, eight wolves from Alberta, Canada, arrived in Yellowstone National Park. They […]
Continue Reading →Shocking public opinion poll on bison in Montana-
A random sample survey of 500 Montana registered voters just released shows that Montanans strongly support free roaming bison on some public lands in the state outside of Yellowstone Park, where they are essentially confined in a legal sense and subject to frequent mass cullings. Folks in […]
Continue Reading →Last year I learned that anti-predator activists were organizing a predator killing derby to take place in Salmon, Idaho – a place smack dab amidst one of the largest and most breathtakingly diverse public landscapes in the country. A few of us infiltrated the event with the aim of exposing the extent of the depravity […]
Continue Reading →In 2008 at a Bureau of Land Management Oil and Gas lease auction Tim DeChristopher bid on 14 parcels of land (totaling 22,500 acres) for $1.8 million that he had no intention of buying. The FBI arrested him and charged him with a two-count felony indictment. DeChristopher was branded an “eco-terrorist.” Even though the very […]
Continue Reading →First priority for new Congress is Keystone pipeline. Why?
Here in Pocatello, Idaho, today gas prices fell to $1.99 a gallon. They have been dropping for over a hundred days in a row. In January a year ago, prices were over $3.75 a gallon.
Meanwhile, the new Republican congress is about to get underway. Their […]
Continue Reading →About the politics of wolf reintroduction in the Northern Rockies-
Jim Yuskavitch begins his book with the story of wolf B45, the first Idaho wolf to venture into Oregon. She (B45) was a first generation offspring of the wolves brought down from British Columbia for release in Idaho in 1996. Most of his examples and descriptions […]
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