Advocacy
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An Interview with Jonathan Ratner, Director of Sage Steppe Wild On episode 76 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—host Josh Schlossberg gets litigious with Jonathan Ratner, Director of Sage Steppe Wild, as they challenge The Nature Conservancy’s schemes to log and graze public lands and whether the billion-dollar entity should still…
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A few weeks back, I ran across a press release from The Nature Conservancy about partnering with the Bridger Teton National Forest in Wyoming for “forest restoration”, the current euphemism for logging. I sent a FOIA to the Bridger Teton to see what was going on and got back two national-level MOU’s agreeing to help…
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Last week I published an article about Sage Steppe Wild winning a stay against the Nature Conservancy’s authorization to bulldoze 13 new reservoirs to water the TNC’s cattle in the Indian Creek area of the Bear’s Ears National Monument. A lot of readers were pretty disgusted with the TNC. Well, I thought if you fall…
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The Wyoming MAGA contingent that now controls the full legislature introduced House Bill 0286, a proposed bill that would strip critical protections for cougars in Wyoming. HB 0286 proposes the following changes: ● Elimination of hunting zones and geographic boundaries for cougars.● Removal of statewide and local mortality limits, allowing unrestricted killing of cougars at…
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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…
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Tens of millions of wild bison once roamed across western North America. Today, wild bison occupy less than one percent of their former range. Yet in spite of this, the National Park Service’s new bison management plan does nothing to expand the range of the 5,000 wild bison that live almost exclusively in Yellowstone National Park. Instead,…
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You probably remember this photo from last year when Cody Roberts brought a wolf he had run over with his snowmobile into the bar in Daniel, WY. The story and photo went around the world and generated nearly universal disgust. Now, more than a year later, it is still legal. The new legislative session has…
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Let’s be clear: Gianforte’s lawsuit doesn’t represent Montanans, but rather Montana livestock interests. The vast majority of Montanans want wild, migratory buffalo restored in our state. The brucellosis boogey-man argument is old and is full of holes. The disease was brought to North America through invasive cattle. Brucellosis entered the Yellowstone buffalo herds by erroneous…
