Increase in State-permitted Fur Trapping Leads to Illegal Trapping of Wild Cat BOISE, Idaho— Three conservation groups initiated a lawsuit today against the Governor of Idaho and other state officials […]
Help Stop the Entrenchment of Public Lands Livestock Grazing!
Two-hundred and fifty million acres of public lands need your help. The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resourcesis poised to move the so-calledGrazing Improvement Act of 2013 (S. 258) out to […]
Western Watersheds Project Litigates 145,000 Acre Vegetation Treatment Project in Nevada
In early June, Katie Fite and I visited southeast Nevada to examine the results of past vegetation treatments meant to “restore” sage grouse habitat in the Schell Field Office of […]
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 […]
Strange Bedfellows Hold Ground for Bison in Montana
Today Montana Judge E. Wayne Phillips shot down a lawsuit brought by powerful livestock interests to stop the State of Montana from allowing bison to use areas of Montana outside […]
Changes in Brucellosis Rules Remove Some Leverage from the Montana Livestock Industry
Changes help livestock industry overall but does it change much on the ground for wildlife? Last week it was announced that another herd of cattle had likely become infected with […]
More Ranching Custom and Culture. Dead Wildlife in Water Troughs.
Last week, Katie Fite and I travelled to Nevada to inspect several grazing allotments and attend a BLM meeting in Winnemucca and a BLM field trip in the Ely District. […]
Lords of Nature presented by WWP at the Idaho Outdoor Association
Tonight, March 8 · 7:00pm – 8:30pm Location Idaho Outdoor Association 3401 Brazil Street Boise, ID Wolves and cougars, once driven to the edge of existence, are finding their way […]