Jonathan Ratner
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Longtime habitat management techniques don’t stimulate vegetation growth in one sagebrush subspecies and may have detrimental effects on sage grouse and sagebrush-reliant songbirds, several studies show. The subtitle could be “No Sh#t Sherlock”. ts always nice when science is heard. For decades virtually all sage grouse experts were against killing sagebrush for sage grouse. The…
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For those of us who still read, we got a suggestion from a reader, triggered by the comments of Ken Brower regarding the paradigm shift from bio-centric to anthropocentric in US conservation over the last 40 years. When change is not cataclysmic but takes place over a number of years, humans tend to lose track…
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Editor’s Note: For those of you not in Montana, you may not be familiar with the editorials of George Ochenski. George Ochenski was an environmental and tribal lobbyist at the Montana legislature for 22 years and and wrote, funded and passed many of the significant environmental bills in Montana during those decades. He is Montana’s…
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Some years back one supposed expert named Allan Savory did a TED Talk [the ultra-processed McDonald’s of information] claiming that he was able to make deserts verdant and reverse climate change through livestock grazing. His absurd claims racked up nearly 6 million views and was enthusiastically welcomed by both livestock industry supporters and people who…
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The Comb Wash allotment and the adjacent Cottonwood allotment within what, at the time of this writing, is still within the Bear’s Ears National Monument features prominently within the annals of litigation against the abuses of livestock grazing on our public lands. For decades after the passage of The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) the…
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The folks at Population Balance have a lot of resources on the fundamental issue facing humans, every other species and the planet itself. While it is no longer ‘acceptable’ within the environmental community and society at large to mention the obvious elephant in the room, human population driving every problem we face, Population Balance is…
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For those focused just on North America, its sometimes good to get a more global perspective. Yesterday, a report was released on global warming impacts in India. More than 3,200 people dead. As much as 3.2 million hectares of crops damaged, around 2.3 lakh [230,000] houses and buildings destroyed, and more than 9,400 livestock dead:…
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You may remember a bit more than 8 years ago when Hillary Clinton described about 1/3 of Americans as deplorables and she was given hell for it. Politicians cant tell the truth. That is us. A country does not sink to this level of depravity unless it is deeply sick in its body politic. We…
