• “Which side of the horizon are you on—setting or rising?”

    GUEST POST BY PEGGY BERRYHILL, THERESA HARLAN, and PETER BYRNE.  —— The following responses to George Wuerthner’s October 12th piece “A Response to Treur’s Atlantic Magazine National Parks and Tribes,” and November 2nd’s “Indian Burning – The False Solution to Large Blazes” are guest posts from Peggy Berryhill, Theresa Harlan, and Peter Byrne. I am…

  • Agency excuses don’t fly for Mexican gray wolf’s removal from northern Arizona habitats

    Agency excuses don’t fly for Mexican gray wolf’s removal from northern Arizona habitats

    *Post authored by Greta Anderson and Emily Renn  Photo courtesy of NY Wolf Conservation Center, https://nywolf.org In the Arizona Republic article, “Anubis, a Mexican gray wolf found outside his territory, is relocated amid outcry from scientists, advocates,” (August 18, 2021), Arizona Game and Fish Department’s Jim deVos provided his agency’s justification for removing Anubis, a…

  • Guest Post: BLM IS BROKEN AND HOW TO FIX IT

    Guest Post: BLM IS BROKEN AND HOW TO FIX IT

    ** Guest post by Richard Spotts**   An open letter from a former Bureau of Land Management employee to Secretary Deb Haaland.  Dear Secretary Haaland: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in your Interior Department is broken and I know how you can and should fix it. BLM’s dominant management culture has long been (and…

  • Oregon is better than this. Stop killing wolves.

    Oregon is better than this. Stop killing wolves.

    **Guest post by Adam Bronstein, Oregon/Nevada Director for Western Watersheds Project In the past year, the gray wolf has once again been in the national spotlight due to terrible changes in federal and state policies. Last October, wolves nationwide lost protections under the federal Endangered Species Act despite their low numbers or complete absence from…

  • Open Letter: Cliven Bundy’s chronic trespass grazing must end and how to do it

    Open Letter: Cliven Bundy’s chronic trespass grazing must end and how to do it

    A letter from Richard Spotts, retired Bureau of Land Management employee RE:  Cliven Bundy’s chronic trespass grazing must end and how to do it   Dear Secretary Haaland and other DOI officials:   Cliven Bundy’s more than a quarter century of blatant and destructive trespass livestock grazing on federal lands must come to an end.  Enough…

  • Cowpies and potshards and an abdication of responsibility in Arizona

    Cowpies and potshards and an abdication of responsibility in Arizona

    The Sonoran Desert National Monument was established in 2001 with very specific terms about how grazing should be managed on these lands. The Proclamation basically said that grazing should be permanently banned from parts of the monument and could only continue on portions of the monument where it was found to be compatible with resource…

  • Who’s afraid of the big [actually little] bad [how’s that?] wolf [pups]?

    Who’s afraid of the big [actually little] bad [how’s that?] wolf [pups]?

    The Catron County fearmongers are at it again, complaining to the State Land Commissioner of New Mexico that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s cross-fostering of wolf pups somehow puts residents at risk and, “jeopardizes the lives” of New Mexicans. Representative Yvette Herrell cried wolf to New Mexico State Land Commissioner in early May, 2020…

  • Supporting Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch translocation of Mexican wolves

    Supporting Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch translocation of Mexican wolves

    Conservation groups have long been saying that cross-fostering of Mexican wolf pups into wild dens won’t work as the only tool for the necessary genetic rescue of the wild population. We want adult, well-bonded pairs released from captivity with their pups, if possible, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been balking at this option.…

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