Public Lands: Our Collective Birthright is in Jeopardy
I have some questions and complaints about how our federal public lands are managed. I think ranchers pay a pittance in grazing fees, while doing a lot of damage to our collective lands. The timber...
View ArticleGrazing Fee Drops in 2017, Further Undervaluing Public Lands
LARAMIE, Wyo. – The public lands management agencies announced the grazing fee for federal allotments today, which the federal government has decreased to a mere $1.87 per cow and her calf (or 5 sheep)...
View ArticleStop Bison Slaughter
The Louvre Museum in France houses some of the most famous art works in the world, including paintings by such well-known artists as Rembrandt and Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. What would you think...
View ArticleWill the Real Teddy Roosevelt Please Step Forward?
By Erik Molvar President Donald Trump has made a point of invoking Theodore Roosevelt, one of our nation’s leading conservation icons, as his guiding light on environmental issues. His Secretary of...
View ArticleCongressman Greg Walden Wrong about Owhyee
On his website, Congressman Greg Walden opined: “The conclusion of the Obama administration, without a national monument designation in the Owyhee Canyonlands, marks a long-awaited victory for the...
View ArticleIdaho Settlement Ensures Notification for Wildlife-killing Contests on BLM Lands
Cruel, Unethical Competitions Stopped for Last Two Years BOISE, Idaho— The Federal District Court of Idaho today approved a settlement agreement between six conservation groups and the Bureau of Land...
View ArticleFederal Court Smacks Down Bundy Land-Seizure Theories
On February 27th, Judge Gloria Navarro of the U.S. District Court of Nevada handed down a ruling with major implications for Cliven Bundy and his allies in the land-seizure movement. The ruling...
View ArticlePet-killing “Cyanide Bomb” Placed Illegally by Wildlife Services
For Immediate Release March 21, 2017 Contact: Erik Molvar, Western Watersheds Project, (307) 399-7910, emolvar@westernwatersheds.org Brooks Fahy, Predator Defense, (541) 520-6003,...
View ArticleCatastrophic logging threatens national forests
National Forests across the West are facing dire threats from politicians, the timber industry and the Forest Service. The public is currently being misled into thinking that our forests are...
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Let’ s end Wildlife Service’s Poisons
Pocatello, Idaho. Last week 14-year-old Canyon Mansfield watched his yellow lab Casey die from the effects of an explosive cyanide device set out by the federal government agency named Wildlife...
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Tell Congress: Back Off Legislation Using Sage Grouse to Transfer Public Lands
Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) and Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) have introduced legislation that is an extreme and irresponsible attack on your public lands and the wildlife they support. This bill has the...
View ArticleFederal Wildlife-killing Agency Agrees to Halt Use of M-44 “Cyanide Bombs” in...
HAILEY, Idaho – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program – which kills thousands of predators across the country annually – announced today it has abandoned use of M-44 cyanide...
View ArticleBighorn sheep vs domestic sheep
Bighorn sheep, named for the large curling horns of rams, are one of the West’s most iconic animals. Once found from North Dakota to Washington and south to California to New Mexico, they were among...
View Article15,000-acre Bureau of Land Management Fracking Plan Endangers Sage Grouse in...
FILLMORE, Utah— Conservation groups today condemned a U.S. Bureau of Land Management proposal to auction off 14,943 acres of public land in central Utah for fracking and drilling, which will hurt an...
View Article‘Carbon Curtain’ exposes suppression of science at a state university
By Erik Molvar, Executive Director, Western Watersheds Project While Trump administration issues directives banning discourse on climate change and muzzles scientists in federal agencies, the fossil...
View ArticleRange Riders-a false solution for predator-livestock conflicts
Tom Sawyer would be proud of the “progressive” livestock producers who “love” predators. These ranchers are continuously held up as a “win-win demonstrations” by collaborating so-called conservation...
View ArticleAs predicted, Trump goes after the national monuments
The major national monuments of the last 20 years on the chopping block President Trump has just signed a much-predicted executive order that mandates a review of all the national monuments established...
View ArticleOpposition to National Monuments: Wrong side of History
http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/some-hate-parks-and-national-monuments-until-they-love-them Last week, President Trump launched an unprecedented assault on America’s public lands when he ordered...
View ArticleGroups Ask Court to Halt Federal Wildlife Killing in Idaho
New Lawsuit Seeks to Stop Wildlife Services From Exterminating Native Wildlife BOISE, Idaho – Conservation groups filed a lawsuit in federal court today to stop the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s...
View ArticleCNN Reports Most Damaging Foods–Beef Is Number One.
A CNN news report on the most damaging foods to global climate is welcome. http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/world/gallery/climate-damaging-foods/index.htm To those of us paying attention, it confirms...
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