Yellowstone Bison Petitioned Under ESA
A number of environmental organizations, Western Watersheds Project, The Buffalo Field Campaign, and Friends of Animals, have petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the Yellowstone bison...
View ArticleForest myths drives bad legislation
The timber industry and its advocates continue to promote a number of myths designed to garner public support for increased logging. These myths are being repeated by many in Congress, including all...
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A Chapter of Conservation History All Americans Should Know: How And Why “The...
By Franz Camenzind Originally published in the bullseye https://thebullseye.media/how-why-greater-yellowstone-matters/ 12 minutes (3070 words) It Takes More Than A Park, Even The Mother Of All Parks,...
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Western Watersheds lawsuit to curb abusive grazing in White Clouds Wilderness...
Forest Service does nothing to clean up awful grazing in spectacular Wilderness- Boise, ID – More than a decade after a federal court ordered the Sawtooth National Forest to create a plan to improve...
View ArticleWestern Watersheds Project statement on “not guilty” verdict in Bundy Trial
LARAMIE, Wyo. – In response to the “not guilty” verdict in the trial of the seven militants charged with federal conspiracy and weapons charges associated with the month-long takeover of the Malheur...
View ArticleBTNF cuddles ranchers on Upper Green
The Bridger Teton National Forest (BTNF) missed a chance to promote the public interest over private businesses when it decided in its draft management plan for the Upper Green Allotment to continue...
View ArticleResponse to Nick Smith Flathead Beacon editorial
I want to respond to misinformation about wildfire by Nick Smith’s editorial on the proposed East Reservoir Project which appears in the Flathead Beacon November 3rd. In that piece, Smith promotes many...
View ArticleWhy Targeted Grazing Cannot Stop Large Rangefires and Recover Sage Grouse
The Department of Interior recently released its Integrated Rangeland Fire Management Strategy whose goal is to reduce range fires in sagebrush ecosystems critical to sage grouse. The plan correctly...
View ArticleWestern Watersheds statement on the election outcome
Contact: WWP Statement on the Election of Donald Trump Erik Molvar, Executive Director, (307) 399-7910, emolvar@westernwatersheds.org LARAMIE, Wyo. – These are dark days for public lands and...
View ArticleChief Joseph Scenic Bi-way Threatened by Logging
The Chief Joseph Highway that leads from Cody to the Northeast entrance of Yellowstone National Park is one of the most scenic drives in the West. I have camped, hiked, and skied the public lands...
View ArticleSage Grouse Funding Priorities are Misplaced.
With much fanfare, as reported in the Great Falls Tribune, the Montana Sage Grouse Oversight Team announced that it will bequeath more than $1.5 million for a 18,033-acre conservation easement on the...
View ArticleCathy McMorris Rodgers, Trump’s Interior Pick
McMorris Rodgers pick for Interior Secretary Raises Major Environmental Red Flags Contact: Erik Molvar, Executive Director, Western Watersheds Project, (307) 399-7910 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today’s...
View ArticleBison Slaughter National Disgrace
The proposal to kill another 900-1000 of Yellowstone Park’s bison this winter is a national disgrace and tragedy. The continued butchery of Yellowstone’s genetically unique wild bison is a crime...
View ArticleMountain Biking Greatest Threat to New Wilderness Designation
Several years ago, I published a book on motorized recreation and its impacts on public lands. In doing the research for that book, one of the statistics that I found interesting is the demographic...
View ArticleObama adds two last minute national monuments on U.S. public land
Bears Ears in SE Utah and Gold Butte near Mesquite, Nevada declared to be national monuments Gold Butte National Monument is near where Cliven Bundy ran his illegal cattle. I’ve been there. It is...
View ArticleYellowstone Bison Are Not Livestock
In response to a guest editorial I published in the Missoulian on the shameful slaughter of Yellowstone’s bison, a group of three retired USDA range managers wrote a commentary that was published in...
View ArticleThe noisy political attack on new national monuments. We have heard the same...
The recent designation of Bears Ear National Monument in southern Utah by President Obama engendered a predictable storm of rhetorical protest from Utah’s politicians. Yet a review of their comments...
View ArticleNew Polling Data Underscores Public Support for Endangered Species Protections
New Polling Data Underscores Public Support for Endangered Species Protections By Western Watersheds Project WASHINGTON – The American public supports the continued protection of endangered species and...
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Privatized or Not, Public Lands Will Suffer Under Trump
The straw-grasping began almost as soon as the shock wore off. Conservationists began searching for a sign that Donald Trump might care about something other than money and winning. They dug up a...
View ArticleFollow The Money: How to interpret “peer review” science.
I regularly hear or read arguments from agencies compromising our natural heritage that such and such studies support their management decisions. However, often the agencies overlook or ignore...
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