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UPDATE: Comment Period Extended on Predator Killing Contest Environmental Assessment

October 17, 2014

Ken Cole

UPDATE 10/17/2014: Due to a request by Representative Peter DeFazio of Oregon, the comment period has been extended until Midnight Mountain Time, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014. The BLM is asking for comments on an Environmental Assessment that examines the impacts of issuing a Special Recreation Permit (SRP) to conduct a predator killing contest on BLM lands.…
Cliven Bundy’s Shell Game: Why it Matters to the Tortoise that BLM Finishes what it Started

April 17, 2014

Many of Cliven Bundy’s supporters in the Bunkerville showdown last weekend were saying things like, “It’s not about the tortoise,” and making the issue of long term trespass into a sign that the U.S. is headed towards fascism under a overreaching regime. But, see, it kind of is about the tortoise. The threatened Mojave desert…
19 years later, Cliven Bundy ordered to remove trespass cattle or face seizure by BLM

August 1, 2013

Ken Cole

The long running battle between southern Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and the BLM may be coming to an end soon. On July 9th, Nevada District Judge Lloyd D. George ordered Bundy to remove his cattle from BLM and National Park System lands in the Gold Butte and Overton Arm areas of southern Nevada. He was…
BLM Abuse of its Public Trust Duty – Conservationists Win Duck Creek Case

May 23, 2013

Ken Cole

Western Watersheds Project and Wild Utah Project had a significant win this week on the Duck Creek allotment of Utah. In the longest running administrative grazing appeal hearing in the history of the Department of the Interior, including 12 weeks of hearings and a record of 15,000 pages, WWP demonstrated that BLM’s rangeland health assessments…
More about “encroaching” junipers on Juniper Mountain.

March 7, 2013

Ken Cole

In yesterday’s post about the Owyhee “Group 1” grazing decision we discussed the NRCS Ecological Site Descriptions for Juniper Mountain that inaccurately describe the vegetation and magically discount the native juniper forests that exist there. In the Environmental Assessment the BLM states: “Ecological site descriptions for Castlehead-Lambert allotment do not identify the presence of juniper…
Sage Grouse Pushed Two More Steps Toward Endangered Species Act Protection by Nevada.

February 6, 2013

Ken Cole

With the firing of Nevada Department of Wildlife chief, Ken Mayer and massive sagebrush suppression projects –in place of grazing reductions – by the BLM, sage grouse are headed toward trouble in Nevada. A behind the scenes battle has taken place between many competing forces like Nevada Department of Wildlife, BLM, Nevada Department of Conservation…
“What changes the landscape?” BLM asks scientists,”but be sure to ignore the biggest cause!”

November 30, 2012

Ken Cole

A year after Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) filed a complaint with the BLM for intentionally excluding livestock grazing impacts from “Rapid Ecoregional Assessments” which were supposed to look at “change agents” for BLM landscapes, the BLM has put the $40 million assessments on hold and remained silent about charges of political interference. Even…
18 years of trespass and BLM still hasn’t removed the cattle

November 28, 2012

Ken Cole

In 1994 the BLM cancelled the grazing permit of Cliven Bundy, 4 years later a federal court required the removal of cattle from the Bunkerville allotment in southern Nevada, the BLM is still struggling to get them removed. We reported on this ongoing case of trespass last May, shortly after the BLM decided not to…

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