by Katie Fite as published on CounterPunch.org The Bureau of Land Management has spent the pandemic churning out rapacious public land projects at breakneck speed. This includes egregious grazing decisions drastically increasing livestock numbers for powerful ranchers. After complaints, Idaho BLM Director John Ruhs responded that ranching was […]
by GEORGE OCHENSKI as published on The Missoulian Bernhardt has already upended the sage grouse conservation plan that was intended to keep the birds from being listed for Endangered Species Act protections. Everyone has heard the old saying about “the fox guarding the hen house” — which generally means […]
Source: Western Values Project “This move will impact over 350 species that depend on the “big empty” of the sagebrush sea – habitat that drives over $1 billion in economic output each year from outdoor recreation alone…” After the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released Records of Decision […]
Western Watersheds Project “The agency plans to build new fences, refurbish stock ponds, install a cattle guard, create new monitoring programs using Park Service staff, and allow trailing in a closed allotment, all at taxpayer expense…” Kanab, UT – Late last Friday, the National Park Service announced its […]
Story by Jayson O’Neill as published on Western Values Project.org Unprecedented and unlawful plan to gut protections for iconic public lands a disturbing move In response to President Donald Trump’s announcement of historic reductions of protected public lands in Utah, Chris Saeger, executive director of the Western Values Project, […]
Commentary by Robert Bauer “…any devastation of western rangelands, is due rather to an overpopulation of cattle, which have been found to outnumber the wild horses 100 to 1…” As a biologist, I have been involved in documenting the issues concerning this nation’s wild horses for years, along […]
Press Release from Center for Western Priorities Zinke stacks the deck against the working American public DENVER—Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today announced members of a new “Royalty Policy Committee” which will advise the Interior Department on how to “modernize” public land management. The Center for Western Priorities released the following […]
by Carol Walker as published on Wild Hoofbeats “The BLM should raise the Appropriate Management Level for the Red Desert Complex wild horse populations…” The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is planning a massive roundup and removal of 2,096 horses, or 80% of the 2,620 horses in the […]
Source: Western Watershed Project “These bills would do the opposite of what their titles suggest by handing over management of your federal public lands to states…” Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) and Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) have introduced legislation that is an extreme and irresponsible attack on your public […]
“There is an age old adage that asks, “How do you know when ‘so and so’ is lying, when their lips are moving.” That does a pretty good job of describing one of America’s most corrupt federal agencies, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). For years the BLM […]
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