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  • Interior Board rejects all appeals to BLM travel plan in SW Montana

    Ralph Maughan

    New rules governing use of vehicles on BLM land will now go into effect- I’m not familiar with the details of vehicle use in this area, but it sounds like all sides appealed, although probably more on the off-roaders side. Travel plans, once relatively non-controversial documents, have become major public land controversies almost everywhere in…

  • Americans flock to the nation's "best idea"

    Ralph Maughan

    Record Number of visits to Yellowstone Park in 2009- This has been in the news the last couple days. Rocky Barker blogged today about it, tying it to the recent popular PBS television film, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.”  Here is Barker’s blog in the Idaho Statesman. Americans flock to nation’s “best idea.” My…

  • Another Western Watersheds Project victory in Arizona

    Ralph Maughan

    Western Watersheds Project Wins Summary Judgment on the 100,000 acre Byner Complex Allotments. BLM- This no “family ranch” but a spin-off of Freeport-McMoRan mining. Here is the WWP’s news release on the victory for the American people ♦Western Watersheds Project’s Arizona Office has been granted Summary Judgment byAdministrative Law Judge Harvey C. Sweitzer in a…

  • BLM won't fight grazing ban on Idaho allotment

    Ken Cole

    Domestic sheep will not return to allotment in bighorn sheep habitat. The Partridge Creek allotment in the Salmon River Canyon near Riggins is closed to domestic sheep grazing after Western Watersheds Project, The Wilderness Society, and Hells Canyon Preservation Council filed suit in Federal Court. This is a huge victory for bighorn sheep which have…

  • Western Watersheds wins a second legal case today

    Ralph Maughan

    The focus has been on the bighorn sheep versus domestic sheep case, but Greta Anderson of the WWP’s Arizona office won an case before an administratrive law judge today — Western Watersheds Project v. Bureau of Land Management and intervener Byner Cattle Corporation. Here is the order. Byner Complex Order October 2009

  • Salazar gives a mixed decision on reanalysis of tracts wrecked in gas auction by Tim DeChristopher

    Ralph Maughan

    Eight tracts will not be auctioned; 52 studied more, 17 given up to oil and gas interests- Tim DeChristopher’s brave disruption of the December 2008 oil and gas lease auction in Utah has resulted in a new decision by the new Secretary of Interior. Politicians and groups are characterizing it in differing fashions according to…

  • Idaho Scenic Beauty. Boulevard Springs Cattle Exclosure

    Ralph Maughan

    Comparison photos are fun!

  • Judge rejects U.S. management plan for California desert (West Mojave)

    Ralph Maughan

    Complicated ruling was a victory of sorts for conservation- Judge rejects U.S. management plan for California desert. By Louis Sahagun. LA Times. This was a huge case over a big area and a BLM plan that took 15 years to develop. My view of it as a partial victory is based on private email from…

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Edward Abbey

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