March 10, 2017 BLM, horse ‘lovers’ group spar over genetic manipulation of wild horse herds The government then returned the herds to the wild with significantly less genetic variation than it needs to survive, Front Range claims, in violation…
March 6, 2017 Worried about carbon dioxide emissions? Logging is the answer! The more concerned people are about climate change, the more they should be interested in active management to restore forest health. Yet many of…
February 28, 2017 Wolf ESA plan should focus on species recovery, not shutting down ranchers This plan set a recovery goal of 100 wolves, a target that was exceeded in 2014. However, instead of celebrating the recovery plan’s success…
February 24, 2017 Forest Service to takeover private land in Colorado county where 96% already under federal control “As a county with 96.5% public land (of which 48% is Wilderness or de facto wilderness), three national forests, and BLM land, we have a…
February 23, 2017 Bears Ears designation “swallows up” lifelong rancher’s water, grazing rights, private property The federal government should not have this kind of authority over a state and local people. Especially when the federal government employees are so…
February 20, 2017 Grazing, management by ranchers critical to environmental health in West But what does this decline mean for the health and vitality of our public lands? Like your lawn, which needs trimming and mowing, rangelands…
February 17, 2017 With timber communities at risk, Oregon counties fight Cascade-Siskiyou expansion The association sued President Donald Trump, the United States, Acting Secretary of the Interior Kevin Haugrud and the Bureau of Land Management. It asks…
February 15, 2017 Fed agencies not held to account for environmental destruction, wildfires Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer told me that immediately after the Canyon fire, local loggers organized and went into the burned area to retrieve…
February 10, 2017 Mexican gray wolf attacks on rise in Arizona, along with costs, complications “All that was left was a leg and a few bone shards. I just got lucky to find it,” he said, noting that he…
