United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Soil Conservation Service (SCS) reports “estimate that ‘Western rangeland is losing topsoil, mostly due to ranching, at least 4 to 5 times faster than it’s being replaced. Meanwhile, ranching industry servants like BLM are working to put more cattle on the […]
SOURCE: revealnews.org (photo: Associated Press) By Lance Williams and Katharine Mieszkowski / December 3, 2015 It was an anti-government rebellion in the Nevada sagebrush – with hefty taxpayer subsidies for the rebels. In June, tough-talking ranchers in remote Battle Mountain, Nevada, defied the federal government, herding cattle onto […]
SOURCE: Pacific Standard Magazine The response to an especially ugly round-up of wild horses in Oregon suggests we might. by James McWilliams A group of wild horses are rounded up in Eureka, Nevada. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Any company that sells tuna—one of the most popular foods eaten […]
SOURCE: The Daily Pitchfork Photography: Bryce Gray BLM and USFS-reported grazing stats reveal the extent of private livestock production on millions of acres of overgrazed western public range and forest land, challenging rancher claims that wild horses and burros are to blame. by Vickery Eckhoff A side-by-side analysis of […]
Oregon Wild Horses (Photo: Vince Patton/OPB) by Grandma Gregg The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Lakeview District has announced that it plans to gather approximately 1,500 wild horses associated with the Beatys Butte Herd Management Area (HMA) in Oregon, in early October. BLM will remove all but 60 […]
Photo of Braveheart and his Family by Leslie Sterling Compiled by Grandma Gregg but Inspired by George Wuerthner, co-editor of “Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West”. http://www.publiclandsranching.org/book.htm The continuing Wild Horse and Burro abuse by the Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service […]
SOURCE: The Desert Independent Editorial By Robert Winkler Publisher of The Desert Independent No WELFARE rancher wants wild horses competing with his cows for forage on the public land he is getting on the cheap, so the horses gotta go. Because the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) comes […]
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“Wait until you see who is on this list! (Hint, the list includes a big mining company.) Another great article by Vickery Eckhoff.” – Debbie SOURCE: The Daily Pitchfork They’re mega-rich, powerful and on public assistance. [Part IV of an ongoing series on ranchers in the media] by […]
Wild Horses in winter in Adobe Town (photo: Carol Walker) SOURCE: wildhoofbeats.com Laramie, Wyoming – March 4, 2015 – Today U.S. District Court of Wyoming Chief Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal issued an order stating that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) when it […]
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