Public Lands

  • Feds Fight to Keep Names of Ranchers With Grazing Permits Secret

    Ken Cole

    Information is needed to understand who the program benefits and how many livestock are grazing public lands The program that is heavily subsidized by the public to the tune of $123 million annually is veiled in secrecy. Welfare ranching of public lands, simply put, is the subsidized destruction of our public lands for the benefit…

  • Environmentalists make plea for desert preservation

    Ken Cole

    A group of environmentalists says renewable energy goal shouldn’t come with destruction of native plant, animal life In the Ivanpah Solar site lies on public lands in the center of very important desert tortoise habitat so the company proposes to move those tortoise to a new area before construction begins. This is a strategy that…

  • 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…

  • Grizzly mauls sheepherder; kills dogs, sheep

    Ken Cole

    Are the wilds of the Upper Green a place for sheep? By Ken Cole and Ralph Maughan Grizzly mauls sheepherder; kills dogs, sheep. By Joy Ufford with Derek Farr. Sublette Examiner This is bad. A poor shepherd got seriously hurt. With all the media attention on sheep ranchers there is too little attention to the…

  • Rancher found guilty in sheep-dog case

    Ken Cole

    Sheep dog bit woman while riding her bike and attacked another person’s dog. The dog had not been vaccinated. It is not uncommon for people to come into contact with sheep guard dogs while recreating on public lands and I have been told many times that these dogs are trained to not attack people. This may be…

  • Jury finds agency, DuPont negligent in land case

    Ken Cole

    BLM and DuPont held accountable for killing crops which neighbor public lands by applying Oust in southern Idaho after wildfires. Jury finds agency, DuPont negligent in land case Associated Press

  • Mike Hudak's Podcast: Politics Trumps Science in Rangeland Management

    Ken Cole

    How they do it. In this 15-minute audio presentation, Mike Hudak explains how ranchers use politicians to intimidate land managers from the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management into providing rancher-friendly livestock management that is often detrimental to wildlife. Hudak cites passages from his book Western Turf Wars: The Politics of Public Lands Ranching…

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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

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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