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  • Collateral damage: Experts wonder what Tester's bill may kill

    Brian Ertz

    More fallout on the costs to conservation Montana Senator Jon Tester’s new Logging Bill (couched in “W”ilderness designation) may have to Montana’s wildlife. Collateral damage: Experts wonder what Tester’s bill may kill Missoula Independent While much of the critique coming from conservationists focuses on the negative impact of the logging on other-than-wilderness public lands of…

  • Heading out for West Nile Virus country?

    Ralph Maughan

    Is cattle trough country West Nile virus country? Well I’m going to spend the rest of the day over in the Sublette Range where there are a lot of cattle troughs. Nowadays you have to worry about West Nile virus.  Seems like these might harbor the dangerous mosquitoes that pass it. As August approaches the…

  • Scenic BLM roadless area next to Mt. Borah draws Western Watersheds lawsuit

    Ralph Maughan

    Western Watersheds Project sues BLM to protect the Burnt Creek roadless area from livestock abuse- Ever since I returned to Idaho in 1971, one place I wanted to see was Burnt Creek in the high colorful foothills on the east side of the Lost River Range. It has been selected as a wilderness study area…

  • F&G expects to finish bighorn plans on time

    Ken Cole

    The Idaho Department of Fish and Game was directed to work with domestic sheep producers to develop “best management practices” to keep bighorn and domestic sheep apart. The problem lies in the fact that history shows that it takes only one interaction between the two to transmit disease to bighorn sheep and that interaction can…

  • The very real threat posed by the Mexican wolf recovery program. . . .

    Ralph Maughan

    This article appeared in Demarcated Landscapes.

  • Horse Debate Misses the Point.

    Ken Cole

    Ted Williams, a writer for Fly Rod and Reel Magazine and Audubon has written a piece attacking wild horse advocates and politicians who supported H.R. 1018, the Restore Our American Mustangs Act. I think it misses the point. I think that an opportunity to do something about livestock damage was missed and the bill will…

  • More corporate welfare for public land livestock production

    Brian Ertz

    Obama’s Department of Agriculture has published a rule to extend more subsidies to public land ranchers. EQIP Extended to Public Lands – National Cattleman’s Beef Association On Friday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a final rule authorizing the use of Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) funds for conservation efforts on public lands. The National…

  • Range War in the West

    Brian Ertz

    Patrick Dorinson has taken aim at one group of rabble-rousers you may be familiar with : Range War In the West – FOXNews.com But some environmentalist outlaws like the Western Watersheds Project had no interest in compromise and since have used and abused the legal system of this country to deny the ranchers their rights…

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