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An open letter to the Oregon Bureau of Land Management on Hammond Ranches,...
Photo grabbed from Maxine Bernstein/The Oregonian/OregonLive: https://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2018/07/oregon_rancher_pardon_draws_sw.html Dear Oregon Bureau of Land Management staffers, I am...
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Ambler Road A Threat to Alaska’s Wildlands
Peaks in the Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska. Photo George Wuerthner While most Americans were focused on the seditious events in Washington DC, the Trump Administration approved the right...
View ArticleBiden climate policy could bring positive change to the West: Here’s how
President Biden today issued an Executive Order outlining a broad and ambitious policy to tackle the climate crisis. It contains plenty of ambitious provisions, couched within an all-hands-on-deck...
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Putting Our Public Forests Into Carbon Reserves
Old-growth forest like this on Admiralty Island, Tongass National Forest should be protected as a carbon reserve. Photo by George Wuerthner The Biden Administration supports protecting 30% of US...
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Yellowstone and Native American History
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Photo by George Wuerthner George Wuerthner and Lee Whittlesey Smithsonian Magazine recently published an article titled, “The...
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Critique of The West Is Burning Documentary
The wind-driven pattern of fire in the 1988 Yellowstone fires. Photo George Wuerthner A new documentary titled The West Is Burning continues to promote a flawed narrative that large blazes are a...
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Predicted habitat availability does not address recovery success for Mexico’s...
Mexican Wolf Canis lupus baileyi at Cincinnati ZooLtshears/Wikimedia Coauthored by Greta Anderson and Dave Parsons The Arizona Game and Fish Department has been busy promoting recently published...
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South Plateau Timber Sale Another FS Con Job
Lodgepole pine forests like these in the South Plateau Timber sale tend to burn at fire rotations of hundreds of years, yet the FS wants to log them to preclude a future fire that may not occur for a...
View ArticleConservation Groups Swing Back at Bernhardt’s Last Minute Favor to Oregon...
I’ve been working on public lands livestock grazing issues for over fifteen years and I’ve seen a lot of terrible Bureau of Land Management (Bureau) grazing decisions. But I’ve never seen two...
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Wilderness and Cows-Time to Send the Cows Home
Cattle grazing in designated wilderness at the Mojave National Preserve, California. Photo George Wuerthner Cows in designated wilderness areas? Does that seem like an oxymoron? Wilderness Areas are...
View ArticleWolves will be wolves, so manage the humans
Let’s start with some facts: The majority of New Mexicans want to see Mexican wolves recovered. Public lands livestock are a leading source of conflict for the wolf recovery program. Livestock on...
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The Active Forest Management Scam
Previously logged and thinned forest that burned at high severity in the Jocko Lakes Fire, Montana. Photo George Wuerthner There are daily news stories about the recent large wildfires in 2020. In...
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Livestock and deforestation in the American West
Juniper woodlands in the Wah Wah Mountains. Photo: Erik Molvar. The dawn breaks each morning on a hundred different mountain ranges in the Great Basin, with few human eyes to see it. Many of these...
View ArticlePoint Reyes National Something-or-Other
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” What should we call the diverse, wild, inspiring but scarred peninsula sliding very slowly past us,...
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Domestic Sheep Threaten Wild Bighorns
Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Ram. Photo George Wuerthner Bighorn sheep acquired their name for the large circular horns of the mature rams. They are strongly associated with mountain terrain,...
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Antidote For Rural Sprawl–Land Use Zoning
Rural subdivision in Gallatin County, Montana. Photo George Wuerthner Back when I was a student at the University of Montana in Missoula, I had a girlfriend who managed to rent a house adjacent to the...
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Livestock Influence On Soil Carbon Storage
Cattle congregating in the riparian area, Chama, New Mexico. Photo George Wuerthner SOIL CARBON AND LIVESTOCK Rangelands make up a large proportion of the Earth’s surface, and the soils hold a...
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Groups Sue To Eliminate Elk Feedgrounds in Wyoming
Concentrations of elk by artificial feeding at Wyoming Feedgrounds is spreading diseases like Chronic Wasting Disease. Photo George Wuerthner Wyoming Fish and Game Department has 22 elk feed grounds...
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Centennial Range Safe from Domestic Sheep For Now
The Centennial Range straddles the Montana-Idaho border forming a natural migration corridor for wildlife. Photo George Wuerthner Due to a recent court decision, the Centennial Range, which lies along...
View ArticleIdaho anti-wolf legislation stampeding toward a vote
Guest opinion by Adam Bronstein, Western Watersheds Project‘s Idaho Director In a painful example of why states can’t be trusted to manage gray wolves, the Idaho Legislature seems to be fast-tracking...
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