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 […]
Cliven Bundy’s Shell Game: Why it Matters to the Tortoise that BLM Finishes what it Started
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 […]
19 years later, Cliven Bundy ordered to remove trespass cattle or face seizure by BLM
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 […]
BLM Abuse of its Public Trust Duty – Conservationists Win Duck Creek Case
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 […]
More about “encroaching” junipers on Juniper Mountain.
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 […]
Sage Grouse Pushed Two More Steps Toward Endangered Species Act Protection by Nevada.
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 […]
“What changes the landscape?” BLM asks scientists,”but be sure to ignore the biggest cause!”
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 […]
18 years of trespass and BLM still hasn’t removed the cattle
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 […]