With its recent Draft Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Plan, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) seeks to devolve its statutory authority and responsibility for recovery of a highly endangered […]
Response to Gang of 12
Recently a bunch of older foresters wrote a letter that has been published in a number of Montana papers advocating more logging and other fuel treatments of our forests to […]
Critique of Montana Outdoors proposed “Green” Grazing article
Dear Tom I see that you are planning an article in Montana Outdoors on “green grazing”. Without having read the piece, I can say that it will perpetuate the myth […]
The Bovine Curtain comes down on WSU researcher Wielgus
Last year when the Profanity Wolf Pack was killed in Washington after depredation on cattle, Washington State University predator researcher Robert Wielgus suggested in several articles that the livestock losses […]
Environmental and Wild Horse Advocates Agree: Livestock are the Problem on Western Ranges
By Erik Molvar, Western Watersheds Project and Val Cecama-Hogsett, Citizens Against Equine Slaughter When Erik Molvar of Western Watersheds Project (WWP) and Val Cecama-Hogsett of Citizens Against Equine Slaughter (CAES) […]
Logging legislation threat to our forests
Our public heritage is at risk from a lawless logging bill that effectively eliminates all reasonable checks on the timber industry. The threat comes from House Natural Resources Committee passed […]
What will wildlife eat when cattle graze CMR?
NASA just reported the drought in eastern Montana is so severe it is a once in a century event. Not surprisingly, despite livestock grazing that some suggest could preclude large […]
MEDIA RELEASE 8/1: Western Watersheds Project Overturns Grazing Decision on Sage-Grouse Grounds
Stale data, failure to improve poor habitat conditions doom grazing project For immediate release, August 1, 2017 Media contact: Greta Anderson, Western Watersheds Project (520) 623-1878; greta@westernwatersheds.org BOISE, Ida. – Today, in […]