Grazing and Livestock

  • Cows, What a many Splendored Thing

    Ken Cole

    Last week I went out with a co-worker to check out what was going on in the Jarbidge Field Office where Western Watersheds Project has won a court victory that ends corporate ranching on 450,000 acres of public land. When we arrived we found cattle on several of the allotments even though the injunction is…

  • Clashing sheep cultures in Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    Domestic sheep versus bighorn sheep and cultural traditions- Nice to have an article about Idaho’s tiny, but powerful sheep culture (and those who have cultural ties to bighorn). These domestic sheep guys are Governor Clement Otter’s pals. I’d like to see an article about the planned demise of Idaho’s educational culture at the hands of…

  • When Elk Fly

    Ken Cole

  • Plate buyers unknowingly paying to test private livestock so that they won’t infect public wildlife.

    Ken Cole

    Another subsidy to private Ag interests at the public expense. Other states require testing of 100% of each private elk herd but the Idaho Legislature is requiring much less from Idaho’s elk growers and slipping money away from funds intended for the enhancement of wildlife. Idaho Senate Bill 1085 would require testing of “not more than…

  • Court Victory Stops Corporate Ranching on 450,000 Acres of Public Land in Southern Idaho

    Brian Ertz

    On February 28, 2011 Chief Judge B. Lynn Winmill of the United States District Court for Idaho agreed with Western Watersheds Project and reimposed an injunction stopping livestock grazing on 17 grazing allotments covering over 450,000 acres of public land in the Jarbidge Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management in southern Idaho. The…

  • Judge overturns BLM grazing decision

    Ken Cole

    This is what WWP calls “low hanging fruit” For the last several years I have been appealing grazing decision issued by the Ely District of the BLM and, over and over again, the District only considers alternatives which maintain the status quo even when they have identified problems on the allotments that are either caused…

  • Elk Foundation, Wildlife Federation: Hunting groups clash over wolves

    Ralph Maughan

    Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation throws in with cattle and sheep associations- Story. Hunting groups clash. By Rob Chaney. Missoulian It appears there is a difference in strategy how to get at wolves, according to the Missoulian. However, I think it is more likely the the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (actually David Allen, CEO) has actually…

  • Disease Jumps From Domestic to Wild Sheep

    Ken Cole

    More reporting about the bighorn/domestic sheep disease study Other than the study itself, this is the first time that I’ve heard Dr. Srikmaran talk about last year’s study which confirms that domestic sheep diseases kill bighorn sheep. “I am not that happy about this finding. Some people’s livelihood depends on domestic sheep,” [But the] “organisms…

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