Grazing and Livestock

  • 9th Circuit overturns Molloy's grazing decision on Antelope Basin

    Ralph Maughan

    Good news for a pretty, but cattle hammered basin on the Idaho/Montana border- Although those who only think about wolves suppose Federal Judge Molloy surely sides with conservation groups, he didn’t on this decision. Fortunately the 9th Circuit overturned his approval of a bad Forest Service grazing plan. Here is the story in the Montana…

  • Disease forces Utah DWR to kill bighorn sheep

    Ken Cole

    Sheep came from Montana Disease forces DWR to kill bighorn sheep by Brett Prettyman – The Salt Lake Tribune

  • Park officials consider killing off entire bighorn herd

    Ken Cole

    Custer State Park may just start over Park officials consider killing off entire bighorn herd Kevin Woster – Rapid City Journal Update 3/3/10 GF&P secretary: Killing off bighorns not a serious option

  • Our bighorn are sick and dying.

    Ken Cole

    400 dead this winter in an “unprecedented” series of events Populations of bighorn sheep are struggling with pneumonia throughout the west. Washington, Nevada, Montana, and most recently Utah are having outbreaks of pneumonia which have resulted in the deaths of 400 or more bighorn sheep. Statements like the following are often made about the outbreaks. “While…

  • Cows or Condos, a false choice

    Ralph Maughan

    George Wuerthner updates his arguments about need to have cows to prevent sprawl- A long time ago I tended to be the kind of conservationist who grudgingly thought we had to give all kinds of perks to livestock interests so they wouldn’t sell and subdivide the West.  I was becoming disillusioned with the results of…

  • Lawsuit Settled over grazing in Sonoran Desert National Monument

    Ralph Maughan

    Joint news release by the BLM and Western Watersheds Project- This is a victory for WWPs Arizona Office in Tucson. NEWS RESEASE (PHOENIX, AZ)—The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and Western Watersheds Projects announced today settlement of a federal lawsuit involving the Sonoran Desert National Monument southwest of Phoenix, Arizona.…

  • Meet Western Watersheds Project in AZ on Feb. 18

    Ralph Maughan

    Just a little help for one of my favorite organizations- Western Watersheds Project has an event in Tucson, AZ on Thurs. Feb. 18. Join WWP Executive Director, Jon Marvel, Arizona Director, Greta Anderson and Arizona Legal Counsel, Erik Ryberg, along with other WWP staff and members, for an evening in Tucson.  Learn about our work to save the Mexican…

  • More on the injustice of the tiny federal grazing fees

    Ralph Maughan

    These are doubly unjust compared to what the rest of us pay- These data are from the High Country News blog, Goat.  Cows vs. RATs. Jodi Peterson

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Edward Abbey

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