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Testimony of Erik Molvar, Federal Lands Subcommittee Hearing, U.S. House of...
My name is Erik Molvar, and I am Executive Director of Western Watersheds Project (WWP), a nonprofit conservation group that advocates for the protection and restoration of wildlife and watersheds...
View ArticleFire Scar Historical Reconstructions: Accurate or Flawed
Tree fire scars are used to reconstruct past fire occurrence. These historical reconstructions are often used to guide current forest management on federal lands. Trees charred but not killed by past...
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Response to Rep. Tipton public lands livestock advocacy
Recently Colorado U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton was quoted during a congressional hearing recommending the government enlist help from ranchers and farmers to better protect federal lands. For context, due...
View ArticleWildlife Services Kills Wolves in Sawtooth National Recreation Area to Prop...
Below is a news release from the Western Watersheds Project. I will go further. The Sawtooth National Recreation (SNRA) is to many people the most glorious part of Idaho, and it was protected by...
View ArticleDr. Naugle’s biased testimony on livestock impacts
I wrote this letter to Dr. Naugle more than 10 days ago and have not received a response. It is worth noting that Dr. Naugle has gotten more than $4.5 million in grants to study sage grouse in the past...
View ArticleControversial USDA Sheep Experiment Station in Idaho to Remain Open
News Release Western Watersheds Project Wild Earth Guardians July 25, 2018 DUBOIS, ID. The USDA has released a long-awaited decision on the fate of the agency’s controversial Idaho Sheep Experiment...
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Protect Teton County Wildlands
Wyoming counties are currently involved in the Wyoming Public Lands Initiative. The purpose is to determine which Wilderness Study Areas (WSA) should be designated as wilderness and which areas will be...
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Gallatin Range Deserves Wilderness Designation
Buffalo Horn drainage The Gallatin Range that lies south of Bozeman, Montana is the largest unprotected wildlands in the northern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). The Gallatin Range is highly...
View ArticleCalifornia Democrat introduces bill to switch Point Reyes National Seashore...
Representative Jared Huffman (D-CA, 2nd Dist.) has joined Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), notable anti-wildlife anti-public lands radical, to make dairies the goal of the national seashore where they exist...
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MOJO article on Gallatin Range and Wilderness
http://mountainjournal.org/gallatin-mountains-in-montana-deserve-wilderness-protection Gallatin Range Deserves Wilderness Protection: An Ecologist’s Op Ed GEORGE WUERTHNER SAYS ONE OF GREATER...
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Congressional Bill Short-Circuits Public Process at Point Reyes National...
By Laura Cunningham, California Director Western Watersheds Project Free-roaming elk near Drake’s Beach. An environmentally harmful bill is swiftly moving through the House of Representatives. HR 6687...
View ArticleGrizzly bear protection under ESA needed
Federal Judge Dana Christensen threw out the Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) decision to delist the Yellowstone grizzly bear and returned the bear to Endangered Species Act protection. The decision...
View ArticleLivestock’s impact on wilderness
“The grazing of livestock, where established prior to the effective date of this Act, shall be permitted to continue subject to such reasonable regulations as are deemed necessary by the Secretary of...
View ArticleWill Congress turn Pt. Reyes National Seashore over to Dairy Outfits?
They are attempting an incredible public land grab By Erik Molvar Point Reyes is about as far west as you can go in the lower 48 states. Here, where coastal prairies meet the sea, Congress established...
View ArticleWildlife Services Kills Wolves in Sawtooth National Recreation Area to Prop...
Below is a news release from the Western Watersheds Project. I will go further. The Sawtooth National Recreation (SNRA) is to many people the most glorious part of Idaho, and it was protected by...
View ArticleWill Congress turn Pt. Reyes National Seashore over to Dairy Outfits?
They are attempting an incredible public land grab By Erik Molvar Point Reyes is about as far west as you can go in the lower 48 states. Here, where coastal prairies meet the sea, Congress established...
View ArticleFederal Court Strikes Down Wyoming’s “Data Trespass” Laws as Unconstitutional
Editor’s note: many articles were written about this back in 2015-16. It was one of the most serious attempts in Utah, Idaho or Wyoming commonly know as “ag-gag bills,” to make it very hard for public...
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Federal court rules against Wyoming’s ag-gag laws
By Erik Molvar Credit: Photo by Steve Stevens courtesy Flickr Creative Commons A federal court has ruled that a Wyoming statutes designed to suppress the collection of “resource data” by nonprofit...
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Transbasin diversions are bad for wildlife, and cattle are even worse
By Laura Cunningham, California Director, Western Watersheds Project Convict Creek at Diversion 25, where part of the natural flow is diverted into irrigation ditches to water livestock pastures. Long...
View ArticleBuffalohorn-Porcupine–The Lamar Valley of the Gallatin Range
The spectacularly glaciated Gallatin Range stretches south from Bozeman into Yellowstone National Park. The 250,000-acre roadless area is the largest unprotected wildlands left in the northern Greater...
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