Grazing and Livestock

  • Victory for Western Watersheds Project on cutthoat trout

    Ralph Maughan

    Western Watersheds Project wins appeal in Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest overturning a grazing decision for the Franklin Basin Allotment in northern Utah- Over the years the popular Franklin Basin area of the Cache National Forest in Bear River Range just south of the Idaho border has been increasingly pummeled by cattle and sheep. One result has…

  • Greedy ranchers; livestock pushing out fish and wildlife. How about a year end donation?

    Ralph Maughan

    Do you want to really put your $20 to $2-million to work? At this time of year every charity and conservation organization sends out pleas for a year end donation. Given the condition of the economy, most of them really need it. On the other hand, you want to make a cost/effective donation. Only a…

  • Nevada: Rancher greed has no limits

    Ralph Maughan

    They even resent wildlife guzzlers– “Members of the [Nevada] state Board of Agriculture argue that as their numbers increase, guzzlers are altering the landscape and taking precious resources, whether water or forage, from ranchers. They want to stop the Nevada Department of Wildlife from constructing any new guzzlers and are exploring possible legal challenges. Some…

  • Forest Service finally closes Horse Butte to livetock grazing

    Ralph Maughan

    There haven’t been cattle on it for 8 years, but now it is officially closed to grazing- Despite the absence of cattle on the butte, its official status as a grazing allotment allows Montana Department of Livestock and the Montana Stockgrowers Assn. to bleat about the dangers of brucellosis from the bison that migrate out…

  • Ranching, recreation collide in the great outdoors

    Ken Cole

    The story of what happened when a sheep guard dog attacked a mountain bike rider in Colorado. A woman who was attacked by sheep guard dogs took her case to court and won. Ranching, recreation collide in the great outdoors By NICHOLAS RICCARDI – Los Angeles Times

  • FWP biologists, volunteers cull sick bighorns in East Fork of Bitterroot

    Ralph Maughan

    Pneumonia in important SW Montana herd spreads- FWP biologists, volunteers cull sick bighorns in East Fork of Bitterroot. By Perry Backus. Ravalli Republic. Damn those domestic sheep! – – – – This story earlier on this blog. Bighorn sheep near Darby, MT dying of pneumonia.

  • Livestock disease found in eastern Idaho cow

    Ken Cole

    The infected animal had been vaccinated. This has been a perennial issue in areas surrounding the elk feedlots in Wyoming. It now seems that brucellosis has once again infected cattle in Idaho but it is too early to say where the disease originated. If brucellosis is found in another cattle herd in Idaho within a…

  • Environmentalists, outfitters file suit to end grazing in Upper Missouri River Breaks

    Ralph Maughan

    Western Watersheds new Montana office goes to work on another lawsuit- Environmentalists, outfitters file suit to end grazing in Upper Missouri River Breaks. By Matthew Brown. Associated Press Note that earlier they filed to let Yellowstone bison use national forests outside of Yellowstone. This lawsuit was assigned to Judge Molloy. The bison lawsuit went to…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

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