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Save the Saffel Pack
There’s an old saying about the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. In the West, this could easily apply to public lands ranching and predator...
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Unfit to Lead and Unqualified to Serve: Why William Perry Pendley Cannot be...
By Tim Whitehouse and Erik Molvar Amid the COVID-19 crisis and the uprisings against police brutality and systemic racism, it is understandable if many Americans overlooked the Trump administration’s...
View ArticleA disservice to the community; Rely on the science instead.
*** The following letter by Sarah Killingsworth was originally published in the Point Reyes Light. It is reprinted here with the permission of the author. Dear Editors – In their opinion piece...
View ArticleReflection- Of wolves, George Floyd, and the limits of human empathy
The Ecological Citizen Vol 4 No 1 2020: epub-033 [online first] First published: 23 July 2020 Like many people throughout the world, I am deeply saddened by the murder of George Floyd and by the...
View ArticleInside the Trump attack on America’s environmental charter
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is America’s environmental charter. Signed into law by Richard Nixon, it has three central tenets. First, federal agencies must look before they leap and...
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PERC and Elk Report on Paradise Valley
Paradise Valley, Montana. Photo by George Wuerthner Paradise Valley, Montana, is aptly named. The Yellowstone River flows north to Livingston, Montana, framed by the Absaroka Mountains on the east...
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Daines and Feinstein Fire Legisation Misguided
Far more ignitions start by roads than in the backcountry. Ironically thinning forests will create more roads, hence more ignitions. Photo by George Wuerthner Like zombies rising from the dead,...
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More on Wildlife Services’ sketchy depredation reports blaming Mexican wolves...
Photo by Trisha Shears Mexican gray wolves are blamed for all kinds of livestock deaths in Catron County, and so we wanted to see for ourselves, by reviewing depredation reports, how USDA Wildlife...
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Eastside Forest Scam–The Proposed Removal of the 21-inch Rule.
Old-growth grand fir on the Ochoco National Forest could be logged if the proposed removal of the 21-inch rule is adopted. Photo by George Wuerthner The Forest Service has begun a 30 day comment...
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
Textual Manipulations in Anti-wolf Rhetoric Less than three months from now Colorado will decide whether to support Initiative 107, otherwise known as the Gray Wolf Reintroduction Initiative. Polling...
View ArticleJune 2020, New Mexico: One ranch, nine dead cattle, and six very strange wolf...
Anyone who has been following this blog lately knows that I’ve been writing a bit and a bit more about Wildlife Services’ depredation reports that indict Mexican wolves for livestock deaths under...
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Concerns about Blackfeet and Badger-Two Medicine Co-Management
The rugged peaks of the Badger-Two Medicine area on the Helena and Clark National Forest, Montana. Photo by George Wuerthner The recent article in High Country News on legislation to protect the...
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Lessons From The Effort To Designate The Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness
The Lake Plateau, part of the 900,000-acre plus Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness. Photo by George Wuerthner Years ago, I moved to Livingston, Montana. Livingston strategically lies at the northwest corner...
View ArticleWilliam Perry Pendley Must Go
William Perry Pendley’s nomination to lead the Bureau of Land Management has been withdrawn and while President Trump offered no explanation for withdrawing Pendley’s nomination, it seems he didn’t...
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Bison ecology, ecological influence, behavior, and decline.
Bison in North Dakota. Photo by George Wuerthner Due to gross similarities in size, food preference, and appearance, it is often asserted that bison and domestic cattle are ecological analogs....
View ArticleSlaughtered Pups and Maimed Wolves in Idaho Demonstrate the Effects of...
My colleague at Western Watersheds Project, Talasi Brooks, put out this press release yesterday after reviewing the results of a public records request to Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG). She...
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Targeted Livestock Grazing Won’t Preclude Large Wildfires
Cows trash riparian area, BLM lands, Ruby Mountains, Nevada Senators Steve Daines of Montana and Diane Feinstein of California have once again introduced legislation, the “Emergency Wildfire and Public...
View ArticleCattle Council’s Fire Study Distorts Realities
In a recent news story, the Sacramento Bee speculated that cattle grazing might be a “secret weapon” to fight fire. The story presents the dangerously simplistic claim that cattle grazing reduces fire...
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Welcome to Point Reyes National Cattle Ranch
Drake’s Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore Photo by George Wuerthner The National Park Service has released its management plan for Agriculture in the Point Reyes National Seashore. That is...
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Greater Yellowstone Coalition Shills For Livestock Industry
Black Butte, Gravelly Range, Montana photo by George Wuerthner The commentary by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition in the October 10th Bozeman Chronicle “Together we can tackle the fire issue” was...
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