Category: Wildlife

  • Rewilding a Mountain

    Rewilding a Mountain

    How removing cattle led to a massive ecological recovery

  • Public Lands Welfare Ranchers Again Subsidized By Taxpayers

    Public Lands Welfare Ranchers Again Subsidized By Taxpayers

    Livestock are grazed on all federal lands, including national parks and wildlife refuges. Still, most livestock grazing occurs on lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the US Forest Service. Even specially protected landscapes that are supposed to be managed for natural conditions, like designated Wilderness areas, are grazed by domestic animals.…

  • Golden era of northwest Wyoming elk hunting slides toward expected but undesirable end

    Golden era of northwest Wyoming elk hunting slides toward expected but undesirable end

    Cow hunting could soon cease in six Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem herds, experts predict. Meanwhile, nearly half of hunter-killed bulls could be headed for the dumpster if disease rates reach projected levels. From the good folks at WyoFile, we bring you their latest article on the wildlife disaster being caused by the State of Wyoming’s absolutely…

  • House Tax Bill Accelerates Public Lands Resource Exploitation

    House Tax Bill Accelerates Public Lands Resource Exploitation

    The debate over provisions in the recently approved House tax legislation (Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill) has numerous environmentally destructive provisions which I will get to in a moment. However, one victory amid the unbridled promotion of resource development was the removal of an amendment that permitted the sale of 450,000 acres of public lands across…

  • South Cottonwood Proposed Wilderness Threatened

    South Cottonwood Proposed Wilderness Threatened

    The South Cottonwood drainage in the northern Gallatin Range proposed wilderness lies immediately south of Bozeman, to the west of Hyalite Canyon. The Forest Service’s nearly 8,000-acre Hyalite Cottonwood Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project threatens some of the proposed wilderness. Keep in mind that one acre is approximately equal to a football field. So, imagine what…

  • Failure Of Conservation Groups To Criticize Tribal Wolf Slaughter

    Failure Of Conservation Groups To Criticize Tribal Wolf Slaughter

    The state of Washington recently reported that its endangered wolf population had declined for the first time in 16 years. The state confirmed that it has 230 wolves, compared to 254 wolves in the previous year. According to figures released by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Washington’s overall wolf population in 2024 decreased…

  • PINYON JAY EXTINCTION PROJECTS RAGE ON

    PINYON JAY EXTINCTION PROJECTS RAGE ON

    BLM leaders never had the desire or will to do what it takes to preserve Sage grouse populations. Sage-grouse plans make major concessions to industries, and especially to the great destroyer of sagebrush habitat across the West, the public lands livestock industry. They chickened out rather than risk the buzzsaw of cattlemen resistance and western…

  • Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act Reintroduced

    Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act Reintroduced

    The Beartooth Mountains contain some of the most extensive alpine terrain in the Rockies. Photo by George Wuerthner The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA) is the most comprehensive and ecologically defensible legislation currently before Congress. The Act was first introduced in 1993. NREPA was reintroduced by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Madeleine Dean, who…

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