August 15, 2017 ‘Wilderness study’ designation hampers firefighter access in Montana blazes “It’s not negligence,” Harris says. “That’s what people keep thinking but that’s not what it is. It’s people with responsibility like team leaders in…
August 15, 2017 Zinke, Congress gradually shifting paradigm of public lands stewardship A 13-page memorandum to the Budget Committee this year contains his case for the proposed “paradigm shift” as well as calling for $50 million…
August 14, 2017 Obama’s EPA diverted $1.55 billion to ‘green energy’ using dubious settlements [paypal_donation_button] While the EPA has established a number of safeguards to ensure against impermissible usurpation of Congress’ appropriations power, these safeguards have failed to…
August 14, 2017 Fed’s amphibian ‘critical habitat’ designation at odds with California ag interests [paypal_donation_button] …timber harvests will be impacted, further damaging already-struggling businesses; cattlemen in the region will be forced to cut back grazing by 50 percent,…
August 13, 2017 Is Forest Service picking telecommunications winners and losers in New Mexico? [paypal_donation_button] Carl Muller, an attorney for NMSurf, which is owned by CNSP Inc., said the FCC has guidelines that say his client should not…
August 12, 2017 Wild Horses in Crisis Part II: The solutions [paypal_donation_button] While this trap-spay-return method is common and praised by animal rights groups for dogs and cats, a lawsuit against the spay research was…
August 11, 2017 A history of USFS malfeasance in Idaho’s Payette National Forest [paypal_donation_button] These structure fires occurred during the same time period that five cabins at Cabin Creek were ‘accidentally’ burned to the ground. In this…
August 11, 2017 Wild Horses in Crisis Part I: The problems [paypal_donation_button] “I think there will be an implosion…If we continue down the path of unregulated growth,wild horse populations will continue to expand to 100,000,…
August 10, 2017 The case for pardoning Bundy Ranch defendants [paypal_donation_button] The fact that the Bundy family would not leave their ancestral land helped cause the Reid-Chinese solar deal to fall apart, which incensed…
August 10, 2017 Canadian Ranchers outraged by ‘massive loss of livestock’ from controlled burn gone wrong [paypal_donation_button] “It just went unbelievably wrong,” said Nyman in the release. “The wind was blowing hard out of the northeast, and they were trying…
