By Andrew Cohen as published in The Atlantic Secretary Jewell seems to be willfully ignoring a report by the National Academy of Sciences. Why? Nearly seven months into her tenure as Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell last Thursday at last made her first extended public comments about […]
Source: by MARK LUKACH as published in The Atlantic And, yes, he has a website! There is a man wandering around California with three mules. He has a name, but he prefers to go by Mule. Police departments throughout the state know his name. They inevitably get calls from residents […]
Source: Andrew Cohen as published in The Atlantic “Current practice of removing free-ranging horses from public lands promotes a high population growth rate,” the report concluded In his February speech nominating her for the position of Secretary of the Interior, President Obama noted that Sally Jewell’s aptitude test […]
Source: by Andrew Cohen as published in The Atlantic A federal judge in Wyoming is now reviewing a dubious agreement between local ranchers and the BLM that would eliminate millions of acres of wild horse habitat. Say you were sitting in a law school classroom taking an exam, […]
Andrew Cohen – Andrew Cohen is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and legal analyst for 60 Minutes. He is also chief analyst and legal editor for CBS Radio News and has won a Murrow Award as one of the nation’s leading legal analysts and commentators. More Meet […]
When outgoing Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) announced last month that he was pushing to reduce America’s national deficit by reducing “welfare ranching” in America’s heartland, so quiet was the political response in Washington that you could practically hear the crickets chirping along the Potomac. Undaunted, Sen. Nelson last Wednesday went one step further, announcing that he has introduced an eminently level-headed “Fair Grazing Fee” bill, designed to require the various agencies of the executive branch to charge market-level grazing fees for private ranchers who are running livestock on public land.
To wild horse advocates, the ones who fret daily over the worsening plight of the American mustang, Montana’s Republican former senator Conrad Burns holds a special spot in the pantheon of enablers, cynics, scoundrels and villains who have conspired for generations to endanger the health and safety of the herds. In November 2004, at the last minute, it was then-Senator Burns who inserted into a 3,300-page budget appropriations bill a single-paged rider that amended the 1971 Wild Horse Protection Act so it was legal, once again, to slaughter wild horses.
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