Grazing and Livestock

  • Montana suspends wolf hunting near Yellowstone Park

    Ralph Maughan

    3/4 of the quota was reached quickly, and all very near Yellowstone Park- Montana suspends wolf hunting near Yellowstone Park. AP Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks likes to think that a wolf hunt will decrease wolves killing livestock, but if all the wolves shot are wolves that have never even seen a cow, that argument…

  • Idaho man illegally shot at wolf pack from the sky

    Ken Cole

    Idaho Department of Game declines to prosecute. Aerial gunning of wolves by private individuals is strictly forbidden under the Airborne Hunting Act of 1956. Even though states are allowed to issue permits to individuals to shoot coyotes and foxes from aircraft there are no permits which allow the shooting of wolves. In Idaho, the Idaho…

  • Big Victory for Slickspot Peppergrass!

    Ken Cole

    Rare plant will receive protection across its entire range. WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECT NEWS RELEASE October 1, 2009 Contact: Todd Tucci, Advocates for the West (208) 342-7024 Jon Marvel, Western Watersheds Project (208) 788-2290 Katie Fite, Western Watersheds Project (208) 429-1679 SCIENCE FINALLY TRUMPS POLITICS IN PROTECTING RARE DESERT FLOWER Boise, Idaho – Conservation groups applauded…

  • Environmental groups sue BLM to get names of the holders of public grazing leases

    Ralph Maughan

    Can you even imagine that these things are kept secret? Western Watersheds Project and Wild Earth Guardians are suing to make public that which should open and free to all. Story on Fox12Idaho News. Environmental groups sue BLM for grazing info. Associated Press

  • What will putting Yellowstone grizzlies back on "the list" mean?

    Ralph Maughan

    Agency officials downplay impact- Agencies to allow for bear status. By Matthew Brown. Associated Press Judge Molloy put the Yellowstone area bears back on the threatened species list because all their food sources are jeopardized.  Brian Kelly, Fish and Wildlife Service Wyoming field supervisor was quoted in the article above, “The basic message is that…

  • Spontaneous combustion of manure at ranch starts big California fire

    Ralph Maughan

    These self-starting manure fires are apparently all too common Southern California when it gets hot- Well . . . another negative side effect of ranching!  Oh, and the location of the ranch where the fire began was kept a secret. Story in the LA Times.

  • Merle Haggard, tell us how you really feel about your local ranchers!

    Ralph Maughan

    Famous country and western singer Merle Haggard is no friend of his local cattle ranchers- “The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking with waste the creek that runs through my property.  There’s certain times of day that the…

  • How do burrs get spread?

    Ralph Maughan

    Here’s a classic- As I mentioned in an earlier comment, I got a new camera today. I headed to the mountains south of Pocatello to try it out and came back with a disgusting photo (as well as some attractive landscapes).

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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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