The straw-grasping began almost as soon as the shock wore off. Conservationists began searching for a sign that Donald Trump might care about something other than money and winning. They dug up a January 2016 interview with Field and Stream and Outdoor Life, where he said that he doesn’t like the idea of divesting federal […]
Continue Reading →In a recent blog post, Defenders of Wildlife is grossly misleading the public claiming that they have “saved the last wild bison” by participating in and supporting the quarantine of buffalo that originated as wild calves from Yellowstone. Quarantine is a domestication process. There is no benefit from quarantine to bison as wildlife. Quarantine […]
Continue Reading →Nevada’s energy chief wants to take Federal Lands and hand them over to energy companies.
Jim Groth, an appointee of Governor Jim Gibbons, published a declaration which calls for turning the State of Nevada into an energy colony and he doesn’t think it should be subject to National Environmental Policy Act requirements.
“The greatest […]
Continue Reading →Privatization does not always happen directly. Western Lands Project looks at the sneaky ways-
Wilderness Dedux. From the Goat Blog in High Country News.
In recent years we have seen the emergence of “quid pro quo” Wilderness, where Wilderness is designated only if some developors are […]
Continue Reading →Everyone should read this, in part because I think a major effort to privatize wildlife and to have livestock associations assume de facto control of state wildlife departments is afoot.
How public wildlife became something for sale. By Mark Henckel. Billings Gazette Outdoor Editor
This article is precisely about what Robert Hoskins, Mack Bray […]
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