The Washington Post published an article a few years ago that repeated the old and flawed idea that ranching will “protect” the land and suggesting conservation easements are the solution to ...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/05/02/the-problem-of-conservation-easements-2/
The seminal work on public lands livestock grazing and its web of impacts, Welfare Ranching - The Subsidized Destruction of the American West is now available for download.
This past week the Biden Administration reversed a permit approved by the Trump Administration that would have allowed the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority to construct a 211-...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/04/21/ambler-road-construction-denied-by-biden-administration/
Dear Subscribers, Recently, Ralph Maughan, the founder of The Wildlife News, has turned over operations to myself and The Wildlife News will be supported and managed as a project of Sage Steppe W...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/04/15/the-wildlife-news-renovation/
An important question regarding sagebrush ecosystems, and species that rely upon them like sage grouse has to do with exactly what constitutes the fire rotation in sagebrush habitat? And a corrol...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/04/14/no-such-thing-as-frequent-fire-in-sagebrush-ecosystems/
American Prairie and the Restoration of Great Plains Wildlife Eastern Montana’s northern plains are what some disparagingly call fly-over country. Once you leave the beautiful, forested mountai...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/03/23/book-review-back-from-collapse/
The interview concerns a paper published about a plan to rewild the West that came out a year or so ago, putting back some of the pieces in the West, including beaver and wolves. The interview ...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/03/22/rewilding-the-west/
Biden and Haaland’s Opportunity to Further Conservation President Biden and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland could go down in history if they created additional National Monuments. Althoug...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/03/10/potential-new-national-monuments-biden-should-establish/
More than 1.24 million acres have charred a portion of the Texas panhandle and parts of adjacent Oklahoma. The Smokehouse Blaze is the largest in Texas history and the second-largest fire in th...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/03/07/lessons-from-record-texas-wildfire/
Winter weather frequently drives wild Yellowstone bison out of the park seeking forage, where they are captured or killed at the park border. Photo George Wuerthner Recently news media annou...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/02/24/bison-transfers-threaten-wild-buffalo/