Politics

  • Siddoway’s Wolf Kill Bill Dead in Senate.

    Ken Cole

    Senator Jeff Siddoway’s Wolf Kill Bill S1305 has been sent back to committee which effectively kills it. The bill would have allowed ranchers to kill wolves by various methods including use of live bait and even aerial gunning. Yesterday the USFWS told the Idaho Statesman that the bill could threaten the wolf delisting plan and…

  • Santorum Scorns Faithful Environmentalists

    Brian Ertz

    Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum is not content to criticize President Obama’s policy objectives from a political perspective, he’s taken to the pulpit criticizing the President’s, and an entire population of religious people, whose faith compels them to consider the environment. Santorum is at odds with his own church on environmental issues – Los Angeles Times Santorum was…

  • Big game tags for big landowners to auction off dies in the Idaho Senate…. not quite

    Ralph Maughan

    Controversial bill, S1283, dies on a rare tie vote- but S1282, a similar bill, is still alive.  There aren’t many Democrats in the Idaho state senate, but all of them joined with about 40 per cent of that body’s Republicans to kill the effort to turn the Land Owner Appreciation law (LAP) into a possible…

  • Idaho’s Wolf Kill Bill S1305 Makes it out of Committee

    Ken Cole

    I just got out of the Idaho Senate and Resources Committee meeting where they discussed S1305 which allows ranchers to kill wolves in many different ways. They voted to send the bill to the floor with a do pass recommendation. One interesting comment was made by Republican Senator Tippets who said that he had dinner…

  • Reverb: Activists Take Over Oregon Cattleman’s Association Meeting and Call Attention to Anti-Wolf Legislation

    Brian Ertz

    Editors note 5:30 PM MST 2/22/2012: we have learned that this “wolf kill bill” will probably move no further in the Oregon Legislature — it is probably dead for the year, though it is possible that legislative “tricks” could possibly push it further.  Full release: Activists Take Over OCA Meeting and Call Attention to Anti-Wolf…

  • More on the plan in the Idaho legislature to auction the best big game tags

    Ralph Maughan

    Even the anti-wolf crowd have this plan to enrich big landowners figured out- The outcry over the plan in the legislature to sell a number of big game tags to the highest bidder — to let landowners have a number of them and charge the highest prices they can get selling them privately, seems to…

  • Obama’s Proposed 2013 Budget Raises Grazing Fee… a bit.

    Brian Ertz

    Increased Fees to Graze On Public Land Still Doesn’t Cover Costs  President Obama’s proposed 2013 budget for the Department of the Interior includes a tiny bit of good news for western public lands: a $1 increase in the fee charged for livestock grazing on Bureau of Land Management lands. The fee, which is required of each public…

  • Idaho Bill Targets Wolves “By any Means Available”

    Brian Ertz

    Senator Jeff Siddoway also pushes amendment to turn Land Owner Appreciation bill into a no access gravy train- Idaho rancher and State Senator Jeff Siddoway has introduced a bill (S1305) in the Idaho statehouse that would authorize the slaughter of wolves involved in molesting or killing livestock by any number of creative ways. Senator Siddoway…

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