By George Wuerthner as published on The Wildlife News The Idaho BLM is implementing what is sometimes called “targeted grazing” with livestock in an effort to reduce large wildfires. The theory is that if livestock graze enough of the “fuel”, then large wildfires like the 600,000 Murphy Complex […]
By Erik Molvar as published on The Hill Welfare Ranching is EXACTLY that!!! Recently, the Hage family of central Nevada has become the poster boy for ranchers supposedly victimized by federal law enforcement. But far from being victims of a repressive federal bureaucracy, the Hage family demonstrates the […]
by Jenna Bardroff as published on OneGreenPlanet.org “Wild horses play a crucial role in keeping the ecosystem of the west balanced…” Imagine walking through a trail alongside the golden grasses of an open prairie in the Western United States when all of the sudden you are stopped frozen […]
By Erik Molvar as published on The Hill “There is no shortage of severe damage from livestock overgrazing on public lands in my home state of Wyoming… Thanks to a legal settlement between conservation groups and the National Park Service, Point Reyes National Seashore has now stopped blindly […]
Source: Heber Wild Horses Public lands ranchers, in their effort to convince Forest Service and others that the wild horses need to be removed from the Sitgreaves National Forest, often fall back on their old propaganda spiel that the horses guard the waterholes and won’t let the cattle […]
Press Release from: Biological Diversity.org Livestock operations have polluted 35,000 miles of U.S. rivers and contaminated groundwater in 17 states. Each year American beef production creates 489 billion pounds of manure. WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity submitted a Freedom of Information Act request today seeking communications between […]
By George Wuerthner as published on Wildlife News “…these conservation groups conveniently ignore and fail to inform their membership and media of the multiple ways that livestock production harms wildlife, and ecosystems, no doubt while receiving big donations for their silence. They are, thus, directly culpable for helping […]
by COWSPIRACY: the sustainability secret “Just imagine what this does, in the form of welfare ranching, to our public lands and it’s effect on wild horses, burros and all other wildlife, let alone ourselves!” ~ R.T.
“Once again Western Special Interest Politicians are grasping numbers out of their backside where their heads reside most of the time. Without science, fact or evidence they spout out numbers and figures that paint a false representation of what is really going on upon our western public lands. […]
While the BLM cites the drought in the West to remove wild horses and burros from public lands PERMANENTLY, the BLM doesn’t enforce drought-related grazing restrictions in northern Nevada when cattle ranchers flagrantly defy the grazing restrictions. – Debbie SOURCE: Elko Daily Free Press BLM Allows Grazing on […]
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