Category: Activism

  • Conservation: An Inconvenience?

    Conservation: An Inconvenience?

    I will never comprehend those who want to sell off our public lands; or those who support others that want to do that. We talk about things like patriotism, freedom and use other words to describe what it is that we want. Public lands are the very source of many of those things. The term…

  • Ecosystem Recovery, if we just let it happen

    Ecosystem Recovery, if we just let it happen

    Continuing the theme George started yesterday, lets take a look at a few other examples. In case you didn’t watch the excellent film documenting the recovery of Hart Mountain, click here or below. For those interested in more information on the recovery of Hart Mountain, we have some further resources on the Sage Steppe Wild…

  • Cow Pie Pal: Put Bad Grazing on the Map

    Cow Pie Pal: Put Bad Grazing on the Map

    From Western Watersheds Project A new app to document the destruction—and fight back. Out West, it’s easy to miss the most destructive industry on public lands. Across vast tracts of public land, there are no drilling rigs, no clearcuts, no mines gouging the earth. Just cows. Quietly grazing—or more accurately, degrading—millions of acres of land…

  • Nature Conservancy Models Used to Maul Public Lands, Wildlife and Watersheds

    Nature Conservancy Models Used to Maul Public Lands, Wildlife and Watersheds

    In a recent article on the plight of the Pinyon Jay, I mentioned a major new 550,000 acre Cedar City BLM Pinyon-Juniper deforestation proposal, the Indian Peak Watershed Restoration Plan, on the Utah-Nevada border. BLM’s scoping letter described: “To better understand current ecological conditions, forecast future trends, and develop conservation strategies, BLM partnered with the…

  • The F*ck Our Forests Act

    The F*ck Our Forests Act

    Here is a podcast by Adam Bronstein interviewing Jennifer Mamola with the John Muir Project. Jenn discusses insights and frustrations with current wildfire policy in Washington, D.C. She stresses the importance of shifting focus from backcountry forest management to home hardening and defensible spaces around communities. Criticizing ineffective policies like the Fix Our Forests Act,…

  • Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Film Now Available

    Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Film Now Available

    If you missed yesterday’s showing of Desert Trout about Lahontan Cutthroat Trout, it’s now available to watch at any time on the Desert Trout page. You can view the film directly on YouTube here. Be sure to take it full screen.

  • Alliance for the Wild Rockies Sues the Forest Service Over ~1 Million Acres of ‘Treatments’

    Alliance for the Wild Rockies Sues the Forest Service Over ~1 Million Acres of ‘Treatments’

    Editor’s Note: As I have said before, it’s the small to tiny organizations who do most of the work. Here, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, working on a shoestring budget with basically a single full-time person, is taking on the Goliath of the Forest Service. Again, my suggestion from having worked in the trenches of…

  • Conservation Groups File Lawsuit to Protect Elk Hunting, Wildlife Corridors and Old Growth Forests in Montana

    Conservation Groups File Lawsuit to Protect Elk Hunting, Wildlife Corridors and Old Growth Forests in Montana

    The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Native Ecosystems Council and Council on Wildlife and Fish filed a lawsuit in federal court in Montana against a road-building and commercial logging project on public lands in the Big Belt Mountains of Montana.  The challenged Wood Duck project is located in a wildlife corridor that is critical for…

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