Grazing and Livestock

  • The Cowboy Plan to Save Sage Grouse….. Making Things Worse

    Ken Cole

    On December 1st, at a presentation given by Bob Budd about the Wyoming Core Habitat Plan for sage grouse, it was pretty obvious that the livestock industry has things pretty much locked up with the agencies and politicians. The presentation was given in one of the big, new hearing rooms in the basement of the…

  • Pneumonia Confirmed in Cinnabar Mountain Bighorn Sheep

    Ken Cole

    Very bad news from just outside of Yellowstone National Park. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks :: Pneumonia Confirmed in Cinnabar Mountain Bighorn Sheep. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks :: Pneumonia Confirmed in Cinnabar Mountain Bighorn Sheep Friday, December 09, 2011 Fish & Wildlife – Region 3 Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks confirms the discovery of…

  • Social conflict disguised as conflict over wolves heats up in NE Oregon

    Ralph Maughan

    Flare up over bed n’ breakfast gives insight to repression that is usually more subtle- Recently we did a story on a controversy over license for a tiny bed n’ breakfast in Wallowa County near Joseph, OR, “NE Oregon . . . get friendly with wolf watchers and lose your property rights.” Since then matters…

  • BLM Rigs Science to Ignore Grazing Impacts (updated)

    Ken Cole

    Note: A number of updates have been added to this story as other news media picked this up.  Lots of egg on the BLMs face!  RM For these scroll to the bottom. – – – – Nov. 30, 2011. This morning Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) filed a scientific misconduct complaint with the Department…

  • How many cattle in Idaho are rustled?

    Ralph Maughan

    How many “predator killed” cattle were actually stolen? We all know the story — the “horrible wolves killed the cattle. They were so hungry that not even a piece of bone was left as evidence.”  The same has been said of cougar and bear. In the many years I have roamed the range, I often…

  • Livestock Industry Plans to Ask Idaho Legislature to pay for Wildlife Services Predator Killing

    Ken Cole

    In Idaho Wildlife Services has historically received most of its funding from the federal government but this year those funds were cut by $247,000. To make up for the shortfall guess where the Idaho livestock industry is going to go. Yup, you guessed it. They are going to the Idaho Legislature with their hands out.…

  • U.S Sheep Experiment Station, Q-Fever, and Wildlife Conflicts.

    Ken Cole

    Larry Zuckerman and I recently wrote about a visit to the US Experiment Sheep Station (USSES) operated by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in eastern Idaho near Dubois and talked about some of the conflicts which are occurring because of the presence domestic sheep in this area which is critical for many sensitive species.…

  • Public Land Ranchers Object to Species Viability

    Brian Ertz

    In an implicit acknowledgement that public lands ranching is often incompatible with native species viability on public lands, Margaret Soulen Hinson provides more hyperbolic rhetoric at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands: Public Lands Council Press Release: RANCHERS WARN U.S. FOREST POLICIES THREATEN LIVESTOCK GRAZING Nov. 16, 2011…

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Edward Abbey

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