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  • Rewilding the West and the 2023 Farm Bill

    George Wuerthner

    The Rewilding the West proposal calls for the restoration of wolves across federal lands. Photo George Wuerthner  The current Farm Bill, which Congress passed in 2018, is set to expire in 2023. Congress will undoubtedly enact a new Farm Bill. The Farm Bill provides an opportunity to incorporate the provisions of the Rewilding the West…

  • Baucus Beetle Amendment To Farm Bill Bad For Forest Ecosystems

    George Wuerthner

    Despite the ecological reality that beetle-kill is part of healthy functioning forest ecosystem, Montana Senator Max Baucus successfully added an amendment to the Farm Bill that would provide additional funds to log beetle killed trees as well as “stream line” the process of getting out timber sales. Baucus stated this would be “good news” to…

  • Senate farm bill draft cleaned of most anti-conservation amendments; House GOP doubles down on them. UPDATED

    Ralph Maughan

    Farm bill being debated will not permit votes on savage anti-conservation amendments- The Farm Bill in the Senate originally had over 300 proposed amendments, including several that would be real outdoors wreckers such as deliberately misnamed “Sportsmens Heritage Act“. . A few beneficial amendments that would have truly helped conserve our land and water were…

  • Senator Jon Tester introduces his own version of Sportsmen’s Heritage Act

    Ralph Maughan

    Bill seems to lack the harsh attacks on national parks, wilderness, and national monuments that are in the House bill- Senator Tester’s (D-MT) opponents figured they had him where it hurts with the misleading Sportsman’s Heritage Act in the House.  We covered some of the House version’s many provisions that are intended to effectively abolish…

  • Sheep growers get a permanent disaster fund

    Ralph Maughan

    Some folks certainly get a lot of helpings at the old government dinner table- Here’s the obscure news release on what seems to me an incredible program. I wonder which members of Congress were behind slipping this into the 2008 (the last Congress) Farm Bill?

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Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

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