The fourth depredation by the Smackout pack was confirmed Aug. 24, meeting the threshold for the department to consider lethal removal. The threshold is four depredations within 10 months or three depredations within 30 days. In this case, the four…
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 filed by the Cloud Foundation and the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign. The suit referred to the…
“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, 120,000, 150,000, [or] maybe more...When that happens, natural regulation will take place. Wild horses and burros would…
“I sent him a letter asking that he open immediate prescriptive grazing on the Charles M. Russell Wildlife Refuge,” Swanson said. “The CMR is unique. There’s plenty of grass. It’s been underutilized for more than two decades. It’s a blessing…
The House of Representatives is now reviewing five new bills aimed at reworking unworkable and unreasonable provisions in the 1973 Endangered Species Acts, which has proven to be one of the most ineffective and economically destructive pieces of legislation ever…
Beef producers also want to care for their land, because we only have a limited amount and it keeps shrinking every day, month, and year. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, approximately 85 percent of the land is not…
Pearce last week urged Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to reduce the outline of the monument from 775 square miles to about 95 square miles and hopes to accompany Zinke on a promised visit to New Mexico in coming weeks. Albuquerque…
The Endangered Species Act is a powerful weapon for environmental groups because it forbids the "take" of any listed species, which prohibits essentially any activity that adversely affects a single member of a species or its habitat. This prohibition deprives…
He said the Forest Service would punish ranchers if they ignored permit requirements and tapped a spring for drinking water like the Rainbow Family has done. Stout said it took him two years to get a National Environmental Policy Act…
When the Whites tried to enforce their water rights with the Oregon Water Resources Department more than two decades later, however, the BLM determined the agreement was invalidated. Mateusz Perkowski Capital Press PORTLAND — An Oregon ranching couple claims their…