Activism

  • Alliance for the Wild Rockies Sues the Forest Service Over ~1 Million Acres of ‘Treatments’

    Jonathan Ratner

    Editor’s Note: As I have said before, it’s the small to tiny organizations who do most of the work. Here, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, working on a shoestring budget with basically a single full-time person, is taking on the Goliath of the Forest Service. Again, my suggestion from having worked in the trenches of…

  • Conservation Groups File Lawsuit to Protect Elk Hunting, Wildlife Corridors and Old Growth Forests in Montana

    Mike Garrity

    The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Native Ecosystems Council and Council on Wildlife and Fish filed a lawsuit in federal court in Montana against a road-building and commercial logging project on public lands in the Big Belt Mountains of Montana.  The challenged Wood Duck project is located in a wildlife corridor that is critical for…

  • Release of New Film on the Gallatin Range

    Jonathan Ratner

    The Gallatin Yellowstone Wilderness Alliance has released a new film on the Gallatin Range in Montana by Adam Bronstein. The video explores the history of the area, the threats, the need for real protections and the ‘collaborators’ working against real protections. You can watch the film within the Alliance’s website or full screen on YouTube.

  • Political Philosophies

    Dan Stroud

    I’m a biologist, an ecologist, one who cares for the land. I believe in science, depending on who funds it and if there are ulterior motives. I have tried to use what little knowledge I have to try to exert an influence on how land is managed, perhaps to no avail. I believe in biodiversity,…

  • Sage Steppe Wild Stops the Nature Conservancy from Bulldozing the Bear’s Ears National Monument

    Jonathan Ratner

    At the behest of the oddly named Nature Conservancy, the BLM approved a massive construction project to create more than 7 miles of new roads and 13 new reservoirs within the Indian Creek allotment on the Bear’s Ears National Monument. The BLM claimed that bulldozing the Monument protected the Monument, including all the objects, including…

  • Last Stand for Headwater Lahontan Cutthroat Trout – Part 2

    Karen Klitz

    Part 2 – Enforcement Why are Lahontan cutthroat trout populations still declining 50 years after being listed as a Threatened Species? Here are some points to consider. Agencies and Organizations Lahontan cutthroat trout (LCT) numbers have been diminishing since the 1800s by over-fishing and by habitat destruction, and they were listed in 1975 as Threatened…

  • Reading Recommendation

    Jonathan Ratner

    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…

  • Comb Wash – Check It Out Before A Quarter of a Century of Recovery is Destroyed

    Jonathan Ratner

    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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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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