Advocacy

  • The Deschutes River Conservancy AKA Deschutes Irrigation Conservancy

    George Wuerthner

    I recently attended a program about the future status of the Deschutes River presented by the Deschutes River Conservancy (DRC). The presentation was primarily self-congratulatory about how collaboration promised to restore some of the river’s flows with the assistance of irrigators. At one time, the Deschutes River had the most even flow of any river…

  • Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Film Now Available

    Jonathan Ratner

    If you missed yesterday’s showing of Desert Trout about Lahontan Cutthroat Trout, it’s now available to watch at any time on the Desert Trout page. You can view the film directly on YouTube here. Be sure to take it full screen.

  • The Forest Service Loses Billions Subsidizing Logging, Not Cleaning Outhouses

    Mike Garrity

    We have all read about the thousands of Forest Service employees Elon Musk laid off without cause in Trump’s reckless attempt to cut the Federal budget by $2 trillion. Unfortunately, many of those laid off were minimally-paid seasonal employees who clean outhouses, maintain campgrounds, and clear hiking trails. The old saying “penny wise and pound…

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

    Mike Garrity

    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…

  • Cash Cows – Now Available Again

    Jonathan Ratner

    Thanks to the work of Karen Klitz, we have been able to obtain a reprint of Cash Cows – Taxes Support a Wild West holdover that enriches ranchers and degrades the land. This expose was one of the only deep dives into the corruption surrounding public lands livestock grazing and the degradation it creates, and…

  • 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…

  • Why Tribal Co-Management Is A Threat to Our Public Lands

    George Wuerthner

    Given the wrecking ball the Trump administration is taking to our public lands and public values, it might seem trivial to worry about tribal co-management. Our public lands are among the most democratic of American institutions. Every American has a right to voice their opinion about public lands management, but no group should be elevated…

  • 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.

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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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