October 13, 2016 What to do about growing conflicts over range lands in the West: Part 4 Today’s federal grazing institutions promote far too much raiding and not enough trading. As the Bundy standoff demonstrated, conflicts over land use have the…
October 12, 2016 The ‘nuclear option’ to remedy feral horse catastrophe Feral horses may have irreversibly degraded millions of acres of rangeland, as the advisory board members discovered on a recent field trip to Antelope…
October 12, 2016 What to do about growing conflicts over range lands in the West: Part 3 The lack of well-defined and transferable federal grazing rights presents serious obstacles to resolving rangeland disputes in a cooperative and mutually beneficial manner. These…
October 11, 2016 Rising government fees in Colorado discourage younger hunters Compounding the issue, Colorado’s hunting base is aging — average age of 55, according to CPW — with fewer younger hunters waiting in the…
October 11, 2016 Wolves kill more calves on private land in Oregon The Rogue Pack’s alpha male, OR-7, became well known when he dispersed from Northeast Oregon’s Imnaha pack in September 2011. He wandered across the…
October 11, 2016 What to do about growing conflicts over range lands in the West: Part 2 Grazing rights are inherently tenuous because agencies continually reallocate rangeland resources and adjust grazing privileges to meet changing political conditions. Moreover, without the right…
October 10, 2016 Blocking BLM feral horse roundup threatens range health, private property “Some of the horse groups tend to portray this as a horses-versus-cows issue, and it’s really not,” Magagna said. “It’s a resource management issue…
October 10, 2016 Threats to gun rights loom large in November election Concerned about your gun rights? You should be. Join other concerned citizens at a special event October 5 at the Andrew Breitbart Freedom Center…
October 10, 2016 What to do about growing conflicts over range lands in the West: Part 1 In January 2016, an armed militia group seized control of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon. Their goal: to protest federal control…
October 9, 2016 EDITORIAL: Want to save the planet? Raise cattle! Everything revolves around soil health…You cannot manage one aspect of nature individually and apart from the others. You need to manage the system as…
