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Taxpayers shell out huge subsidies to wolf-killer’s ranching enterprise
It’s been a while since there’s been news about public lands rancher/wolf killer Craig Thiessen from New Mexico. He’s the guy who pleaded guilty to killing a trapped Mexican gray wolf pup (named “Mia...
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Clear Lake NWR Emblematic of How Livestock Degrades Public Wildlife
Waterfowl Klamath Basin Wildlife Refuges. Photo by George Wuerthner The Clear Lake National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is likely not on everyone’s radar. The refuge lies on the California-Oregon border to...
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Forests As Carbon Preserves
Protecting public forests as carbon reserves would help to reduce GHG emissions. Western larch, Glacier Mountain, Strawberry Mountains, Malheur National Forest, Oregon. Photo by George Wuerthner...
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Historical Lessons of Successful Conservation Movements
Clepsydra geyser erupting, Fountain Paint Pots, Yellowstone NP, WY. Photo by George Wuerthner We do not want those whose first impulse is to compromise. We want no straddlers, for, in the past, they...
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Bighorn Sheep from Two Herds are Sick and Dying Due to Disease Spread by...
Guest opinion by Melissa Cain, Bighorn Conservation Director for Western Watersheds Project. Photo by Erik Molvar/WWP Last week, wild bighorn sheep herds in Washington and Oregon have been detected...
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Wild Mexican Wolves At Risk
Photo by IFT, from FWS 2018 report on MGW recovery program. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is right now* working to remove a wolf or wolves from the Sheepherders Baseball Park or Pitchfork Canyon...
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Indigenous Burning: Myth and Realities
Forest Service using drip torch for prescribed burning. Photo by George Wuerthner There has been a spate of articles in various newspapers and magazines, asserting that if the Forest Service were...
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How Livestock Impacts Ecosystems
Cattle grazing Grand Staircase Escalante NM, Utah. Photo by George Wuerthner Livestock production is one of the most ubiquitous human activities around the globe. It is particularly detrimental to...
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30 by 30 and NREPA
The Crazy Mountains proposed wilderness by Livingston Montana George Wuerthner With the election of Joe Biden, we have a leader who recognizes that we need to use science to effectively deal with...
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Why red states want to seize control of the Endangered Species Act
In September, Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon, testifying on behalf of Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso’s latest bill to gut the Endangered Species Act (ESA) peddled the fake-news narrative that the ESA is...
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Ag is the Biggest Threat to Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Farmland Rocky Mountain Front, Montana is a biological desert of exotic plants (wheat) that covers tens of thousands of acres. Photo by George Wuerthner Most land trusts and many conservation groups...
View ArticleWhat does coexistence with large carnivores actually mean?
In Mexican wolf country, ranchers and agencies bandy about the word ‘coexistence’ as if it means an end to conflict between humans and lobos. If only that were true, and that the playing field were...
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Indigenous Burning Myths and Realities
Prescribed burning by Forest Service. Photo by George Wuerthner There has been a spate of articles in various newspapers and magazines asserting that if the Forest Service were following burning...
View ArticleFederal Grazing Fees – The Hidden Subsidy
The following is a guest post by David Parsons, Wildlife Biologist with Project Coyote and The Rewilding Institute I’m writing in response to Greta Anderson’s 11/23/20 post titled “What does...
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East Paradise Grazing Plan Seeks to Expand Livestock Production
The Six Mile North drainage is currently vacant, but the FS proposes grazing the allotment. It was burned by the Emigrant Fire but grasslands are robust. Photo by George Wuerthner Below are my...
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Livestock industry’s campaign to get rid of wild horses is a scam to cheat...
Photo by Erik Molvar/WWP There’s an organized campaign underway to get wild horses off America’s western public lands, and the livestock industry is both its primary salesman and beneficiary. It’s all...
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Thunder Basin Grasslands Amendment License to Kill Prairie Dogs
Black-tailed praire dog. Photo by George Wuerthner Years ago, I went out of my way to visit the Thunder Basin National Grassland. With a name like “Thunder Basin,” how could I resist. The Thunder Basin...
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Does Cattle Grazing Preclude Large Blazes?
If cattle graze to bare soil, it is true that fires are slowed under such conditions, but the ecological impacts are enormous. Photo George Wuerthner When I worked for the BLM, us “ologists”...
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Wolverine ESA Listing Effort Demonstrates Political Influence
Glacier National Park is home to 30-40 wolverine. Photo George Wuerthner On December 14, 2020, 24 organizations and one individual (me) filed two different lawsuits to challenge the U.S. Fish and...
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Mexican wolf killings expose a dark underbelly of western culture
*Trigger warning: Animal cruelty and wolf abuse discussed below Photo courtesy the awesome Wolf Conservation Center, nywolf.org For over a year, my colleague at Western Watersheds Project and I have...
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