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  • Yellowstone Bison: Madison Valley Landowners Get Tough with Montana DOL

    Ralph Maughan

    A couple just bought much of the top of Horse Butte, a place bison love to come when they leave Yellowstone Park searching for grass, and where Montana DOL loves to capture them for slaughter and haze them back in the Park to “protect” the non-existent cattle from getting brucellosis from the bison. The new…

  • Known grizzly bear deaths increase, but it's no crisis

    Ralph Maughan

    This is another story on the high grizzly mortality rate this year. Known bear deaths increase, but it’s no crisis. By Mike Stark. Billings Gazette. . . . it’s official line that it’s no crisis unless it happens two years in a row. With the rapidly growing loss of whitebark pine, is there any reason…

  • Professor: Fires in West will worsen

    Ralph Maughan

    WASHINGTON — A Montana expert testified Thursday that climate change will increase and intensify wildfires, while members of Congress and U.S. Forest Service officials grappled with how to pay for the increased costs of fire suppression Story: Professor: Fires in West will worsen. By Noelle Straub. Casper Star-Tribune Washington bureau. This should be obvious, but…

  • Western Watersheds Project takes a look a grazing conditions in Current Creek in the Owyhee

    Ralph Maughan

    Video of the condition of Current Creek in the Owyhee.

  • Utility rescinds plans to build dam for southeast Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    This proposal for yet another dam on the Bear River stirred up unpreceded opposition in southeast Idaho. Utility rescinds plans to build dam for southeast Idaho. Times News

  • Senaror Barrasso brings bill to protect Wyoming Range

    Ralph Maughan

    Wyoming’s new US senator John Barrasso has picked up one of the priorities of the late Sen. Craig Thomas, R-Wyo. It would stop oil and gas leasing in all of the 100 mile long Wyoming Range and buy back those leases already issued. Senaror Barrasso brings bill to protect Wyoming Range. By Noelle Straub. Billings…

  • Cows or Condos? Neither!

    Ralph Maughan

    Cows or Condos? Neither! By George Wuerthner. New West. It must have been 15 years ago when I was visiting Wuerthner at his place in Livingston that he outlined to me the argument he makes in the New West guest opinion above. I’ve been thinking about it ever since, especially when I am out on…

  • Lost River Range: Pass Creek, Pine Creek, Wet Creek

    Ralph Maughan

    This is from the WWP blog about a range inspection tour we went on back in early October on the Lost River Ranger District. That is in the Lost River Mountains. We looked at conditions at the end of the grazing season in Pass Creek, Pine Creek, and Wet Creek. The Forest Service district ranger…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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