Livestock grazing negatively impacts more public lands in the West than any other industry. Photo George Wuerhner
Legislation that would have given the federal government authority to close grazing privileges on public lands was recently withdrawn.
Grazing permit buyouts allow the federal government to close public lands to future livestock grazing permanently.
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Continue Reading →Cattle grazing is the greatest threat to the Greater Gila Ecosystem in New Mexico. Photo George Wuerthner
Livestock grazing is the biggest scourge to Southwestern ecosystems. No matter where they are found, domestic livestock poses a significant threat to wildlife and ecosystem function.
Feral livestock currently roams the 558,065 Gila Wilderness, and […]
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The Mogollon Mountains of the Gila Wilderness, New Mexico is the heart of the Greater Gila Ecosystem. Photo George Wuerthner
I have spent most of my adult life living within, exploring, learning about, and trying to protect the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. It is one of the premier wildlands in the […]
Continue Reading →The list of species the federal government has been more or less forced to consider for ESA protection has been growing longer and longer over the years, and yet it acts very slowly, complaining that species are being added at too fast a rate. Much of the agency’s tiny budget was eaten up responding to […]
Continue Reading →“. . . ubiquitous public lands grazing has contributed to the decline of native wildlife,” concludes the report entitled ‘Western Wildlife Under Hoof’.”
Wildearth Guardians has used satellite images and public land records to show the massive damage grazing of sheep and cattle does to the soil, water, forage, and wildlife of our public lands, […]
Continue Reading →Nancy Killefer, President Barack Obama’s new chief performance officer, asked to target wasteful natural resource programs-
To offset the cost of the stimulus package, President Obama has created a new position to look for existing government programs that are useless and wasteful. WildEarth Guardians has some ideas!
Environmentalists want Obama appointee to end waste. […]
Continue Reading →Two prominent regional groups have merged to form WildEarth Guardians.
Here is the generic AP story. Green groups combine efforts.
Here is the longer story as written on Wild Again (Sinapu’s blog). Conservation Groups Merge To Create a Force of Nature for the American West’s Wild Places, Wildlife and Wild Rivers.
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