December 14, 2016 Justified: The story of the Bundy Ranch Standoff as told by Ammon Bundy Narrated by Ammon Bundy while in an Oregon prison following his arrest for the protest at the Malheur Refuge, this video explains the history of his ancestral ranch….
November 21, 2016 Overzealous federal efforts to ‘protect’ lands are counterproductive In our desperation to save our treasures while something remains to be saved, we on the protectionist side have repeatedly done an end run…
November 3, 2016 Conflicts between ranchers and DAPL protesters escalate The physical confrontations heated up when the DAPL crews started coming into the area with bulldozers, moving topsoil, heading toward the river. One rancher…
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…
