December 18, 2019 Australia’s feral horse crisis mirrors that of the American west With an estimated 25,318 feral horses distributed across the surveyed area (more than 7,400 square kilometres) of the Australian Alps, many thousands of horses will…
November 14, 2019 Even in pot-friendly states, illegal grows are wreaking environmental havoc …the forest gives way to a sprawling grow and camp site. It’s typical in shape: terraced plots carved erratically into a hillside scared by…
September 28, 2019 The rising popularity of OHV’s for “public lands” recreation must be addressed fairly Recently members of UTV Utah, have led the fight to open street-legal access to Utah’s roads and highways by sending a letter to Secretary…
August 8, 2019 “Renewable energy” dominance would require massive global expansion of mining “Renewable energy” is a misnomer. Wind and solar machines and batteries are built from nonrenewable materials. And they wear out. Old equipment must be…
July 12, 2019 Denver’s overpopulated Canadian Geese being culled for food and to reduce pollution from “avian manure” Of course, the primary safety consideration at issue here, the situation that triggered the roundup in the first place, is the nearly three tons…
June 25, 2019 State control of western lands is best for local economies and the environment States protect the environment at a better cost to citizens. State land managers fulfill all the same environmental laws a federal land manager would….
June 19, 2019 Elk thriving around Virginia’s reclaimed coal mines The program has been so successful that from 2014 to 2019, the elk herd has actually grown from 71 elk to now around 200….
June 8, 2019 Yellowstone: Mountain bikes pose “grave threat” to grizzly habitat …cycling advocates have claimed that riding their bikes in grizzly country does not cause serious impacts—certainly none worse, they insist, than hikers, horseback riders…
May 7, 2019 Is the hysteria over accidental farmed salmon releases founded in science? STEVE BUSCHOld Man of the Ski SALMON WARS! How Fish Farming has become a Lightning Rod in the Pacific Northwest Washington State Public Lands Commissioner…
April 17, 2019 BLM permit withdrawn for monster solar installation in Nevada desert The California renewable energy developer had planned to build a $5 billion, 2-gigawatt solar power plant north of Las Vegas using 10 “power towers”…