Meeting to decide the fate of bighorn sheep on public lands.
There will be a meeting in Boise on Thursday to discuss formation of a policy which will more likely try to save sheep operators rather than the remaining bighorn sheep in Idaho. The interim policy calls for killing bighorn sheep that come into direct […]
Continue Reading →Sheep Ranchers Claim Paying Minimum Wage to Workers Would Put them Out of Business.
This is an important article :
In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock – The New York Times
* Also, check out Captive Labor.
Environmental Costs
Domestic sheep ranching on public land is subsidized in many ways – environmental […]
Continue Reading →Mark Rey recently issued a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) requiring the Forest Service to test bighorn sheep for disease before the federal government allows states to transplant wild sheep on Forest lands. As one might guess, this move chafes at state wildlife managers’ long-held claim to exclusive management of wildlife. It’s angering bighorn advocates & […]
Continue Reading →Wyoming bighorns in decline. Casper Star Tribune. By Chris Merrill
The primary cause is domestic sheep. If you want bighorns, you can’t have sheep in the area or even travelling through it.
Continue Reading →Here’s the story, but the interesting thing is why it has no chance of passing.
It’s because of the dominance of livestock lobbyists in Idaho. It won’t pass for the same reason the legislators rail and rave about wolves. The wolves are a diversion to keep hunters from seeing the privatization of wildlife in […]
Continue Reading →Over at the Western Watersheds blog, there is an important story how sheep growers are organizing to hit back at the slow recovery of bighorn sheep. Oh! Not to speed it up, but to stop it and reverse it.
Domestic sheep are lethal to bighorns because domestic sheep are full of diseases. Bighorn are also […]
Continue Reading →
