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Holding out Hope for the Arizona Game and Fish Commission
When members of the Arizona Game and Fish Commission’s recommendation board met last week, they interviewed four candidates for the commission’s open seat. All four were white males and most had...
View ArticleNortheast Idaho Sheep Grazing Stopped to Protect Wild Bighorns
Conservation groups win injunction in Sheep Experiment Station grazing lawsuit BOISE, Ida. – A federal court in Idaho blocked domestic sheep grazing in bighorn habitat on the Caribou-Targhee National...
View ArticleShoshone NF will log Chief Joseph Highway
https://www.fs.usda.gov/projects/shoshone/landmanagement/projects It is with dismay that I find the Shoshone National Forest is continuing with its plans to log about 2000 acres along nine miles of the...
View ArticleOppose Mountain Biking Legislation
Among the many threats to our public lands now before Congress is House Bill HR 1349 which would amend the Wilderness Act to allow mountain biking throughout the nation’s wilderness preservation...
View ArticleCREATE A CASCADE SISKIYOU NATIONAL PARK
With the final recommendations by Secretary Zinke and Congressional Greg Walden asking Donald Trump to reduce the size of the Cascade Siskiyou National Monument to facilitate more logging, it behooves...
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Trump’s Looting of Our National Treasures
by Erik Molvar, Western Watersheds Project Photo by Erik Molvar On Monday, President Trump took his first trip to Utah to sign a proclamation gutting the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante...
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Planning to Fail at Sage-grouse Conservation
Photo by Erik Molvar by Erik Molvar, Western Watersheds Project The Trump administration has just launched a process to dismantle the greater sage-grouse land-use plan amendments that were put in place...
View ArticleBTNF ignores public in Upper Green Grazing Decision
The Pinedale Ranger District on the Bridger Teton National Forest (FS) just came out with its Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Upper Green Grazing Allotment. This allotment covers 170,00...
View ArticleBundy gets off again as incompetent prosecution causes mistrial
Bundys go free again: scoflaw rancher wins, sort of. Federal prosecutors fail to bring justice again. Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro of Nevada has dismissed the federal government’s criminal...
View ArticleThe Collaboration Trap
Most of environmental/conservation groups in the West are participants in various public land collaboratives. The majority are forest-oriented like the Northwest Forestry Collaborative...
View ArticleBundy Court Decision Didn’t OK Illegal Grazing
LAS VEGAS— Conservation groups have called on Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to round up and remove the cattle of rancher Cliven Bundy, who has been illegally grazing his livestock on public lands for...
View ArticleContribution of public lands grazing to Custer County Economy
The Challis Messenger carried an article about the voluntary retirement of grazing privileges on the Wildhorse allotment of the Challis National Forest....
View ArticleConservationist Response to Custer Gallatin National Forest Wilderness...
The Custer Gallatin National Forest is revising its Forest Plan, and among other things, is reexamining its roadless lands and making recommendations for future wilderness. This is critical because...
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Federal Judge Overturns the Political Decision to Deny Endangered Species...
DID YOU KNOW? The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has funneled $10,381,534 in taxpayer money for the Montana Dept. of Livestock to enforce Mont. Code Ann. §...
View ArticleMountain Biking Threat to Wilderness
Across the country, the growing popularity of mountain biking is increasingly a threat to our wildlands, even in designated wilderness. Some mountain biking advocates promote the idea that their...
View ArticleThe future of the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests
The Forest Service is currently seeking public comments regarding the development of alternatives for the Forest Plan Revision on the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests in North Central Idaho. The...
View ArticleThe Public Lands Collaboration Process
Why Collaboration Won’t Protect our Public Lands By Rick Meis, Halfway, OR Collaboration is a process of playing two sides off against each other in order to create enough guilt in one or all the...
View ArticleIdaho BLM Juniper Removal For Sage Grouse Recovery Questioned
The Idaho BLM is proposing to remove juniper from over 600,000 acres of land in the Owyhee River area of southern Idaho ostensibly to benefit nesting sage grouse. Sage grouse avoid treed areas, so the...
View ArticleBorder Fantasy Legislation Threatens Wildlands
One of the only good things about the failure of Congress to agree upon the future of DACA recipients (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) is that Trump’s fantasy about a border wall was not funded...
View ArticleWyoming Public Lands Initiative Undemocratic
Wyoming counties are currently involved the Public Lands Initiative. Ostensibly the purpose is to determine which Wilderness Study Areas (WSA) should be designated as wilderness and which areas will...
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