Washington state wildlife officials are too quick to kill wolves
Olympia, Wash — Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife officials late Thursday released a new protocol that would allow wolves to be killed too soon after incidents with livestock and without...
View ArticleHarmful elk winter feeding Wyoming draws lawsuit
Conservation groups challenge disease-breeding feedground on public lands JACKSON, Wyoming –– Four conservation groups filed a lawsuit today to challenge the U.S. Forest Service’s authorization of...
View ArticleTrump to reduce payments to rural counties
Many rural counties with sizeable amounts of federal lands within their jurisdictional boundaries depend on federal payments to support basic services like fire, police, schools, and the like. The...
View ArticleHouse Natural Resources and Ag Sec. promote more logging to reduce wildfires
The House Subcommittee on Natural Resources chaired by Tom McClintock (R) of California is advocating more active management of our national forests based on the presumption that logging/thinning will...
View ArticleLostine Logging Proposal Bogus
Recently I drove up the Lostine River corridor and hiked the trail in the Eaglecap Wilderness giving me a good opportunity to review a Forest Service proposal to log the river corridor. The agency is...
View ArticleCourt Throws Out Feds’ Misguided Policy Limiting Prosecution of Killers of...
Flawed ‘McKittrick’ Policy Ruled Unlawful Tucson, AZ — Late yesterday, a federal judge threw out the Department of Justice’s flawed ‘McKittrick Policy’ under which the government only prosecuted...
View ArticleWolf Project Harassment
A recent article in Wood River Journal titled Wolf Project Enters 10th year detailed how private livestock producers have successfully harassed public wildlife on public lands to reduce losses to...
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Commentary on Hessburg “Mega Fire” Presentations
COMMENTARY ON PAUL HESSBURG PRESENTATION I’ve attended a number of Paul Hessburg’s “Mega Fire” presentations. The following is commentary that follows his presentation that can be reviewed prior to,...
View Article4th Annual Speak for Wolves July 27-29, 2017
The 4th Annual Speak for Wolves will take place on July 27-29, 2017 in the Historic Union Pacific Dining Lodge in West Yellowstone, Montana. This annual wildlife advocacy conference in the heart of...
View ArticleCollaboration leads to dead wolves
The shooting of the Profanity Pack last year and now a kill order for the Smackout Pack in Northeast Washington clearly demonstrated the failure of the current strategy of many conservation groups who...
View ArticleGrazing CMR refuge will harm wildlife
NASA just reported the drought in eastern Montana is so severe it is a once in a century event. Not surprisingly, despite livestock grazing that some suggest could preclude large blazes, the drought in...
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Point Reyes a National Seashore, Not a National Barnyard
By Erik Molvar The newly-signed settlement between environmentalists, ranchers, and the National Park Service puts Point Reyes on the path to resolving conflicts between private livestock and public...
View ArticleMEDIA RELEASE 8/1: Western Watersheds Project Overturns Grazing Decision on...
Stale data, failure to improve poor habitat conditions doom grazing project For immediate release, August 1, 2017 Media contact: Greta Anderson, Western Watersheds Project (520) 623-1878;...
View ArticleWhat will wildlife eat when cattle graze CMR?
NASA just reported the drought in eastern Montana is so severe it is a once in a century event. Not surprisingly, despite livestock grazing that some suggest could preclude large blazes, the drought...
View ArticleLogging legislation threat to our forests
Our public heritage is at risk from a lawless logging bill that effectively eliminates all reasonable checks on the timber industry. The threat comes from House Natural Resources Committee passed out...
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Environmental and Wild Horse Advocates Agree: Livestock are the Problem on...
By Erik Molvar, Western Watersheds Project and Val Cecama-Hogsett, Citizens Against Equine Slaughter When Erik Molvar of Western Watersheds Project (WWP) and Val Cecama-Hogsett of Citizens Against...
View ArticleThe Bovine Curtain comes down on WSU researcher Wielgus
Last year when the Profanity Wolf Pack was killed in Washington after depredation on cattle, Washington State University predator researcher Robert Wielgus suggested in several articles that the...
View ArticleCritique of Montana Outdoors proposed “Green” Grazing article
Dear Tom I see that you are planning an article in Montana Outdoors on “green grazing”. Without having read the piece, I can say that it will perpetuate the myth of “well managed” grazing. For every...
View ArticleIdaho Rancher exaggerates AG’s economic importance
Recently rancher Ken Andrus had a guest commentary in the Idaho State Journal basically championing Idaho agriculture. However, like almost all folks in Ag, he has an overblown view of his place in...
View ArticleSage Grouse research deceptions
The headline in a recent Capital Press article proclaims that “Preliminary data shows cattle, sage grouse can coexist”....
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