The Wildlife News

March 2023

  • More Hype On Fuel Breaks

    George Wuerthner

      Targeted grazing seeks to create vegetation free zones, which advocates suggest will assist firefighters in controlling blazes. However, the collateral damage from grazing vastly exceeds any benefits. Photo George Wuerthner  A recent article in the Post Register described the research that the University of Idaho Range Department conducted on fuel breaks, especially those resulting…

  • Pryor Mountains Horse Management Plan Revision Needs Support

    George Wuerthner

    Feral horses graze the Pryor Mountains. Photo George Wuerthner  The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is currently accepting comments on a proposed change in its wild horse management plan for the Pryor Mountains. The BLM needs positive encouragement to follow up on its proposed plan to reduce the Pryor Mountain horse herd to counter the…

  • The Douglas Fir National Monument Proposal

    George Wuerthner

    The western slope of the Cascades contains some of the greatest concentrations of old-growth Douglas Fir forests in the United States. Photo George Wuerthner  Some of the most spectacular forests of Douglas fir in the West are found on the west slope of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon. Though heavily logged by the timber industry…

  • Biden Designates Two National Monuments

    George Wuerthner

    Bighorn sheep petroglyph Bridge Canyon Wilderness within the new Avi Kwa Ame National Monument. Photo George Wuerthner  Today President Biden used his authority under the 1906 Antiquities Act to create two new national monuments. The larger of the two, Avi Kwa Ame, in southern Nevada, encompasses 506,814 acres, while the Castner Range near El Paso,…

  • Biden Administration Approves Willow Project and Other Threats to Alaskan Wilderness

    George Wuerthner

    The Biden administration just approved the Willow Project in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve. Analysis by the Bureau of Land Management suggests this project will release annually the equivalent of 2 million gas powered cars. Map of the National Petroleum Reserve.  The 23 million acre reserve is the largest undeveloped and unprotected areas in the United…

  • Blue Mountains Don’t Need Active Forest Management

    George Wuerthner

    Many foresters want to be able to cut large grand fir like the one in this photo. Photo George Wuerthner  Recently  Jim Petersen expressed in a March 1, 2023 Chieftain commentary that the Blue Mountains region needs more “active” forest management in the form of logging to preclude tree mortality due to drought, insects, disease…

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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

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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