From the daily archives: Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Bighorn Sheep in Salmon River Canyon © Ken Cole

Northeast Idaho Sheep Grazing Stopped to Protect Wild Bighorns

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Conservation groups win injunction in Sheep Experiment Station grazing lawsuit

BOISE, Ida. – A federal court in Idaho blocked domestic sheep grazing in bighorn habitat on the Caribou-Targhee National Forest yesterday, ruling that the risk to the South Beaverhead Mountains bighorn sheep population from deadly disease  outweighs any possible benefit to the government-run grazing […]

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey