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 Amanda Peacher as published on KUER.org “More flexibility is code for relaxing or eliminating environmental safeguards and standards that are mandatory…” Following Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke‘s repeated calls for more management of public lands, this spring the Bureau of Land Management is giving certain ranchers more […]
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 […]
Move over Wild Horses, Burros and other native critters as private “welfare” cattle, sheep and goats are coming to destroy the forage on public lands near YOU!!! News Release WASHINGTON, DC Contact: BLM: blm_press@blm.gov Forest Service: pressoffice@fs.fed.us For immediate release Date: January 30, 2018 BLM and Forest Service […]
by Debbie Coffey In my opinion… We need to find a fix for the unhealthy populations of non-native, domestic cattle and sheep on public lands. Imagine a proposal to introduce privately owned livestock onto the public lands of the American West. The owners of the privately owned livestock […]
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Wyoming State Legislature decided to take special interests’ right to wreck the environment to another level by passing legislation making it illegal to cross “open land for the purpose of collecting resource data.” WWP and our allies were alarmed by the fact that the laws – dubbed “Jonathan’s Laws” by our staff – would seek specifically to punish people who intend to communicate data to the government; this is a restriction on free speech and targets a specific class of citizens (data collectors) in a way that the U.S. Constitution prohibits.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune – Story by BRIAN MAFFLY “Public lands » Utah argues BLM is failing its duty to manage wild horses, while advocates decry ‘inhumane’ roundups…” A federal judge on Tuesday tossed a lawsuit brought by Utah ranchers demanding the Bureau of Land Management remove […]
by Andy Kerr, Public Lands Blog “Bovine bulldozers have caused more harm to the public lands than mining or logging…” It costs more to feed a domestic house cat than to graze domestic livestock on federal public lands. This has generally been the case since the early […]
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 […]
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