Washington Governor Christine Gregoire is rumored to be a front-runner for nomination as Secretary of the Interior, where she would oversee millions of acres of public land. But a livestock “pilot” program she instituted in Washington, which fast-tracked the introduction of livestock grazing on Washington Wildlife Areas free of charge to ranchers, while running roughshod […]
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By Tom Woodbury, Western Watersheds Project,
Addition by Ralph Maughan. This is also in New West. You can comment there as well as on this blog.
2008 should be remembered as the year of the buffalo. Over 1600 bison were slaughtered in Montana that year, about half […]
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In this 15-minute audio presentation, Mike Hudak explains how ranchers use politicians to intimidate land managers from the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management into providing rancher-friendly livestock management that is often detrimental to wildlife. Hudak cites passages from his book Western Turf Wars: The Politics of Public Lands Ranching […]
Continue Reading →As folks know, including the government of Wyoming, which fears a sage grouse listing under the ESA, large continuous areas of sagebrush steppe are in big trouble.
It is fascinating how they blame wolves wolves for too few elk and then say there are too many antelope and deer and they need to have a […]
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