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  • Guzzling the West’s Water

    Ralph Maughan

    It’s all those golf courses, green lawns, and fountains wasting water in an arid region; right? No! A brief look at the statistics on water use in the West tell that it is agriculture, not western cities that consume the water. Within agriculture one water use stands out. Growing feed for cattle! Cattle are the…

  • Western Watersheds opens major Montana office

    Ralph Maughan

    The Western Watersheds Project has opened its Montana office. About 50 enthusiastic folks attended the word of mouth opening last night in Missoula. Montana operations will be run by attorneys Tom Woodbury and Summer Nelson. Woodbury has a number years’ experience in Montana and Idaho conservation battles and Nelson is a new graduate at the…

  • New brucellosis plan under consideration

    Brian Ertz

    Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) looks to be working on new regulations to deal with brucellosis: Brucellosis plan suggests special Yellowstone area – AP The plan as now envisioned does not call for eradicating brucellosis in wildlife. McCluskey said that would have to be dealt with separately.

  • Cattleman: 'I've always respected wolves – until now'

    Brian Ertz

    Every once in awhile it’s good to take a look at a really biased piece about wolves to attempt to better understand.  This one’s from Sweet : Cattleman: ‘I’ve always respected wolves – until now’ – 2news.tv It’s often good to ask, ‘What emotional or mythical mechanisms does the writer and/or cattleman of this piece use…

  • Wyoming brucellosis. Another cow may test positive

    Ralph Maughan

    If a cow from a second herd tests positive, Wyoming will again lose its brucellosis free status, and it looks like one will. It’s important to remember that the recent brucellosis infection near Danial, WY came from one of the state’s elk feedlots that conservation groups are trying to shut down because they are breeding…

  • How far will Montana's livestock industry go. Will they try to slaughter the Yellowstone elk to eliminate brucellosis

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a long feature article in the Missoula Independent. Bigger Game By Patrick Klemz

  • New report says grazing had "negligible" effects on size of Murphy Complex fire

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a revised version of an earlier story. Here is the news release from the Western Watersheds Project. Rocky Barker also discusses it in his recent blog. BLM Report On The Murphy Complex Wild Fire Shows That Grazing Has Little Effect On Fire Behavior. Idaho BLM has released a long awaited Report on the…

  • Western Turf, Wars: The Politics of Public Lands Ranching

    Ralph Maughan

    Mike Hudak has written a book about what it is like for the citizen-activists who are fighting the livestock industry over livestock abuses on your western public lands. It can be pretty dangerous, especially to your job. Review of the book. The Politics of Public Lands Ranching. Western Turf Wars. By Jamie Newlin. Counterpunch. I…

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