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Expansion and Restoration of Bison to Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Yellowstone bison are a globally unique animal. Harsh winters can drive bison out of the park where they are often killed. Photo George Wuerthner Yellowstone’s bison are unique, essentially...
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Biden Administration Approves Willow Project and Other Threats to Alaskan...
The Biden administration just approved the Willow Project in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve. Analysis by the Bureau of Land Management suggests this project will release annually the equivalent of...
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Biden Designates Two National Monuments
Bighorn sheep petroglyph Bridge Canyon Wilderness within the new Avi Kwa Ame National Monument. Photo George Wuerthner Today President Biden used his authority under the 1906 Antiquities Act to...
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Pryor Mountains Horse Management Plan Revision Needs Support
Feral horses graze the Pryor Mountains. Photo George Wuerthner The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is currently accepting comments on a proposed change in its wild horse management plan for the Pryor...
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More Hype On Fuel Breaks
Targeted grazing seeks to create vegetation free zones, which advocates suggest will assist firefighters in controlling blazes. However, the collateral damage from grazing vastly exceeds any...
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Tribal Bison Slaughter Illegal?
Tribal members gutting a bison killed on Custer Gallatin National Forest land near Gardiner, Montana. As of a week ago, as many as 1,139 bison have been slaughtered by tribal members. Yet the entire...
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Fire Paper Challenging Traditional Wildfire Science
Much of the debate in fire science is about the historical fire regime in dry conifer forests such as these ponderosa pine in the Ochoco Mountains of Oregon. Photo George Wuerthner A critical paper...
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Tribal Advocates Ignore Ecology and Legal Aspects Of Bison Slaughter
Bison migrate from Yellowstone National Park to access snow-free areas where they can obtain forage. Photo George Wuerthner This winter, more than a thousand bison were killed by tribal members after...
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What’s Wrong With Biomass Burning? Everything.
The McNeil Biomass Burner in Burlington Vermont, is the state’s single source of air pollution. Photo George Wuerthner Presently around the West, the Forest Service, timber advocates, and far too...
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Sutton Mountain–Could It Be The Next National Monument?
Sutton Mountain proposed National Monument lies along the John Day River in Central Oregon. Photo George Wuerthner Thus far in his administration, President Biden has been sparing in his use of his...
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Landscape Amnesia and The Deschutes River
The once gin clear Deschutes River near Bend, Oregon is now a pea-green or dirty blonde due to irrigation degradation of the river. Photo George Wuerthner This past week I hiked along the Upper...
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Voluntary Grazing Retirement Could Reduce Wildfire In The West
Livestock is one of the major factors in cheatgrass invasion across the West. Photo George Wuerthner Wildfire is a big issue in Western states. As climate warming has increased temperatures, created...
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Oregon’s Eagle Creek Wildfire–Six Years Later
Eagle Creek six years after the wildfire. Photo George Wuerthner In September 2017, the Eagle Creek Wildfire scorched 50,000 acres in the Columbia River Gorge east of Portland. Numerous media...
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Senator Daines Ill-advised Forest Management Advocacy
Heavily logged lands failed to preclude the 2007 Jocko Lake Fire near Seeley Lake, Montana. Photo George Wuerthner Recently Senator Daines spoke at the Professional Fire Fighters conference in...
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Grizzlies Get A Win On Upper Green
The Upper Green River alloment and Wind River Range beyond. Photo George Wuerthner The Upper Green River near Pinedale, Wyoming under the administration of the Bridger Teton National Forest (BTNF)...
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Wildfire And California Home Insurance Challenges
Remains of a home burned in the Camp Fire which destroyed 19,000 structures in the town of Paradise, California. Photo George Wuerthner State Farm Insurance Company announced it would no longer take...
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The Logging Juggernaut
Logging lodgepole pine on the Deschutes NF in Oregon. Photo George Wuerthner Across the West, the Forest Service and logging proponents continue to mischaracterize forest health by the standards of...
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Wallowa Whitman National Forest Deforestation Projects
This “thinning” is a clearcut all but in name. Wallowa Whitman National Forest, Oregon. Photo George Wuerthner I recently gave a talk on wildfire issues in Baker City, a small town in Eastern...
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Another Self Serving Livestock Study Championing Targeted Grazing To Reduce...
Livestock grazing in the Great Basin has increased cheatgrass, a highly flammable annual grass. Livestock advocates allege targeted grazing can reduce large wildfires. Photo George Wuerthner A recent...
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Buffalo Field Campaign Uses Bison As Pawns In Expanding Tribal Control of...
Harsh winter weather forces bison to seek forage outside of Yellowstone National Park where tribal people slaughter them. Photo George Wuerthner...
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