November 2, 2016 What’s behind flaring land disputes in the West? Despite all the media attention on the trial, many have overlooked the underlying issues that make federal lands so contentious in the first place….
October 29, 2016 Border ranchers hold out hope for Trump wall “I live in a no-man’s land. I live in a land that is occupied by the Sinaloa drug cartel,” he sighed, pointing to mountains…
October 24, 2016 Escalating wolf kills alarm Oregon cattlemen, wildlife biologists ‘If you had told me five years ago we would be dealing with these kinds of situations, I would have told you you’re nuts.’…
October 20, 2016 Another Utah county joins the battle against Bears Ears land grab A majority of Utah politicians, almost all of them Republicans, have argued the measure could crush already-struggling rural economies across the southern end of…
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 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…
October 5, 2016 Drones: Hi-tech, multi-talented farm hands When used with prudence, drones can be a potential tool to better control our agricultural productivity and to best invest our limited resources. Why…
October 5, 2016 Washington wildlife officials struggling with wolf depredations Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife confirmed the Smackout pack had attacked a calf, the second confirmed depredation by that pack since Sept. 21….
October 2, 2016 Autumn in Unaweep Limestone reefs spilling into lush valleys, red sandstone battlements, cottonwoods, scrub oak, wildflowers, wild turkeys, elk, cattle, horses, and hay fields make Unaweep a…
September 28, 2016 BLM fails to provide solutions to wild horse disaster it created “An increased wild horse and burro population wouldn’t be a bad thing, except that the out of control population growth is destroying the health…
