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  • Petition to Protect Mexican Wolves from Traps on Public Lands

    Brian Ertz

    Groups Request End to Trapping & Snaring in Mexican Wolf Habitat in NM 14 Mexican Wolves have Been Trapped by Private Trappers – Press Release – WildEarth Guardians Santa Fe, NM. Today, WildEarth Guardians, the Sierra Club, and Southwest Environmental Center petitioned federal agencies and requested an emergency halt to all trapping and snaring on…

  • Trapped on public lands

    Ralph Maughan

    Montana ballot initiative (I-160) would outlaw trapping on public lands- A grassroots effort to protect pets from traps set on public lands has grown into a larger movement to ban trapping (by ballot initiative) on public lands. Trapped on public lands. By Martin J. Kidston. Helena Independent Record

  • Group launches initiative to ban trapping in Montana

    Ralph Maughan

    Montana Trap-Free Public Lands gathers signatures for ballot initiative- Group launches initiative to ban trapping in Montana. New West Unfiltered By Anja Heister and Connie Poten

  • Footloose Montana Proposes “Montana Trap-Free Public Lands Initiative”

    Ralph Maughan

    The ban on traps would apply to public lands only- Story in the Great Falls Tribune. Group aims to put a stop to trapping on public lands. By Michael Babcock.  Great Falls Tribune Outdoor Editor. – – – – – News Release from Footloose, Montana- Footloose Montana Proposes “Montana Trap-Free Public Lands Initiative” Helena, Mont.…

  • Initiative instigators

    Ken Cole

    Montanans for Trap Free Public Lands working to gather signatures for a Montana Ballot Initiative. Montanans for Trap Free Public Lands is out pounding the street to get signatures for its ballot initiative to ban trapping on public lands. They have gathered 6000+ signatures and they need 25,000 by June to get it on the…

  • Worlds of trappers, pet owners collide in Boise area

    Ralph Maughan

    Here’s a place where Footloose.org could do some new work- Worlds of trappers, pet owners collide. Reports to the Idaho Statesman of injured dogs are three times higher this year. By Pete Zimowsky. Idaho Statesman – – – – – Because I mentioned Footloose, and Footloose’s E.D’s comment kind of got buried, I am moving…

  • Livestock Impacts on Soil Carbon or Why Regenerative Ag Is Unlikely To Be The Panacea Claimed

    George Wuerthner

    Cattle congregating in the riparian area, Chama, New Mexico. Photo George Wuerthner SOIL CARBON AND LIVESTOCK Rangelands make up a large proportion of the Earth’s surface, and the soils hold a significant amount of sequestered carbon (Schuman,G.E et al.  2001). Rangelands are estimated to contain more than one-third of the world’s above and below ground…

  • Wall Street Journal Gets Carbon Storage Wrong

    George Wuerthner

    Old growth forest along the Salmon River, Oregon. Photo George Wuerthner The Wall Street Journal’s December 21, 2023, editorial board wrote that Biden’s New Forest Plan will “lead to more uncontrolled fires—and won’t help the climate.” The WSJ is upset that the Biden Administration plans to ban logging of old-growth forests on national forest lands,…

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