Bill on interstate compact on federal lands transfer dies in committee in Senate. Spokesman-Review. By Betsy Z. Russell. Earlier . . . Critical vote in state senate committee probably on […]
Just north of Yellowstone, bighorn fall to pneumonia
Is arrogant ranching to blame? After many articles here in TWN this year, and elsewhere, about the growing pneumonia epidemic in the bighorn sheep herd just north of Yellowstone Park […]
America’s billionaires among welfare ranchers
This is a very good overview by Vickery Eckhoff on how wealthy Americans enjoy the largess of the American taxpayer by grazing at subsidized rates on public lands. The welfare […]
Do you have some interesting wildlife news. March 24, 2015
It is time to create a new page of “Interesting Wildlife News.” Please put your wildlife news in the comments below. Do not post copyrighted material, and here is the […]
Speak for Wolves 2015: Wildlife management reform objective number 2
Wildlife management reform objective two- Recently we discussed the first objective in reforming the broken system of wildlife management we see in America today. That was to restructure the state […]
Wildlife Need Habitat Off-Limits to Humans!
This is a provocative essay by Michael Vandeman written almost two decades ago, but given the increasing demand that various recreationalists as well as industry is demanding of our wildlands, […]
Post Fire Logging–a bad deal for forest ecosystems
A new publication titled Post Fire logging reduces surface woody fuels up to four decades following wildfire was published in Forest Ecology and Management this week. You can find the […]
Legislative moves to give public lands to the states advance despite little evidence of public support
Montana is the exception by killing bill to create a land transfer task force- All of the Western states now entertain bills to take the public lands from the United States […]