Grazing and Livestock

  • 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

  • Mining mogul buys Montana ranch famed for conservation

    Ralph Maughan

    Sun Ranch bought by Richard C. Adkerson, CEO of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold- Mining exec buys Sun Ranch. By Daniel Person. Bozeman Daily Chronicle.

  • New federal grazing fee announced. No change this year, already at lowest allowed by law

    Ralph Maughan

    Grazing formula again dictates $1.35 a month to graze a cow and a calf or 5 sheep- A formula to set federal grazing fees designed to partially insulate grazers of federal land from the market became law in 1976. It was supposed to go up and down according to livestock prices and costs of doing…

  • Editorial on Idaho Cattle Association plan to cradle ranchers on state lands

    Ralph Maughan

    No on a constitutional amendment to protect ranchers from competitive bidding on state lands- Idaho was given over 2-million acres of federal land at statehood to be managed to provide maximum income for the public schools.. These school endowment lands do make money for the schools, but almost all of it comes from timber sales…

  • On the great Slickspot Peppergrass Controversy

    Ralph Maughan

    Various players reflect on the recent listing of the plant, the ESA, conservationists, and the government- I think this is a big issue for Governor Otter because the plant grows where a lot of his pals graze. I wish so much attention was paid to Idaho’s staggering education education system and all the unemployed people. …

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Edward Abbey

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