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  • Wyoming Extension Service Grazing Report: Economic Exaggerations

    George Wuerthner

      Cattle grazing in riparian zone on the Bridger Teton National Forest. Photo George Wuerthner When I was in graduate school, required reading was a slim book titled “How to Lie with Statistics.” It opened my eyes to the multiple ways you can misuse statistics to “prove” a point. A new report published by Wyoming…

  • Elemental Wildfire Documentary Worth Viewing

    George Wuerthner

    Even the extensive pavement (totally without fuel), extensive clearcutting, and hazardous fuel reductions on public lands did not save this Safeway Store when the Camp Fire burned through Paradise, California. Photo George Wuerthner  Recently Bend residents were treated to the wildfire documentary Elemental at the Tower Theater. The movie produced by Trip Jennings and Ralph…

  • Puff Piece on Sheep Grazing in Montana’s Gravelly Range

    George Wuerthner

    Domestic sheep grazing in the Gravelly Range, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, Montana. Photo George Wuerthner  A recent article on the Helle family and their domestic sheep grazing operations on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest was published In a November Bozeman Daily Chronicle. The piece was a puff piece on the sheep grazing practices of the Helle family…

  • Update on Ambler Road in Alaska’s Brooks Range

    George Wuerthner

    Narvak-Lake-headwaters-of-Kobuk-River-Gates-of-Arctic-NP-Alaska-Brooks-Range. Photo George-Wuerthner While much conservation and political attention have focused on whether to allow oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, another project, the Ambler Mining Project, and road construction proposal may pose even greater threats to the Arctic’s wildlife and wildlands. Despite this threat, The Ambler project has thus far received far…

  • Keep the Cattle Out-Final Decision on Bridgeport Ranger District

    George Wuerthner

    Twin Lakes on the Bridgeport Ranger District. Photo George Wuerthner  A recent final decision to keep cattle grazing out of vacant allotments on the Bridgeport District Humboldt Toiyabe National Forest is good news for the public and many endangered species. The district lies on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada just east and north…

  • The Future of Badger-Two Medicine and Blackfeet Tribe

    George Wuerthner

    Scarface Mountain, Badger-Two Medicine Rocky Mountain Front, Montana, Photo George Wuerthner  A recent article in the Missoulian described efforts by conservationists and some tribal members to stop oil drilling­ in the Badger-Two Medicine roadless area by the oil company Solenex. This Louisiana company holds leases for oil drilling in the Badger-Two Medicine Roadless area on…

  • South Plateau Timber Sale-Another Hack Job By Chainsaw Medicine

    George Wuerthner

    Typical pole size of trees in the South Plateau “treatment” area. Photo George Wuerthner  The Custer Gallatin National Forest (CGNF) proposal to log the South Plateau area bordering Yellowstone National Park near West Yellowstone is another example of the Forest Service’s quack chainsaw medicine policies. The CGNF says the goal of the logging is to…

  • What’s a name? National Audubon Society By Anne Millbrooke

    George Wuerthner

    National Audubon Society is surveying its membership regarding whether or not to keep the name Audubon because the namesake John James Audubon owned slaves. But National Audubon never chose its name because the man, who died in 1851, once owned slaves. It chose the name to honor the man who illustrated birds so beautifully that…

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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

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.
 
It is wrong when it tends otherwise. 
 
Aldo Leopold

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