The Richfield Ranger District of the Fish Lake National Forest in Utah released its draft reauthorization for grazing the Southern Monroe Mountain allotments in Sevier and Piute Counties. The ...
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Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho. Photo George Wuerthner Though most conservation groups focus on federal lands, a neglected area of concern are state properties. Throughout the West, most of these l...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2021/08/23/western-watersheds-wins-state-lease/
Mount Jefferson in Alta Toquima Wilderness, Humboldt Toiyabe NF, Nevada. Photo George Wuerthner The Humboldt Toiyabe National Forest (HTNF), primarily in Nevada, has 40 vacant allotments. Vacan...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2021/05/24/humboldt-toiyabe-considers-restocking-vacant-allotments/
Dairy and beef cattle are grazed at Point Reyes National Seashore sixty years after the properties were purchased by American citizens. Photo George Wuerthner Fences. Everywhere I went during a...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2021/04/25/california-coastal-commission-on-point-reyes-ranching/
Cattle congregating in the riparian area, Chama, New Mexico. Photo George Wuerthner SOIL CARBON AND LIVESTOCK Rangelands make up a large proportion of the Earth’s surface, and the soils hold a ...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2021/04/06/livestock-influence-on-soil-carbon-storage/
Rural subdivision in Gallatin County, Montana. Photo George Wuerthner Back when I was a student at the University of Montana in Missoula, I had a girlfriend who managed to rent a house adjacent t...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2021/04/01/antidote-for-rural-sprawl-land-use-zoning/
The Gallatin Range south of Bozeman is one of the many wildlands that would receive wilderness designation in NREPA. Photo George Wuerthner On March 10th, Representative Maloney of New York reint...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2021/03/10/northern-rockies-ecosystem-protection-act-introduced/
Cattle grazing in designated wilderness at the Mojave National Preserve, California. Photo George Wuerthner Cows in designated wilderness areas? Does that seem like an oxymoron? Wilderness A...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2021/03/03/wilderness-and-cows-time-to-send-the-cows-home/
If cattle graze to bare soil, it is true that fires are slowed under such conditions, but the ecological impacts are enormous. Photo George Wuerthner When I worked for the BLM, us “ologists�...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2020/12/14/does-cattle-grazing-preclude-large-blazes/
Upper Deschutes River is essentially an irrigation cancel for irrigators. Photo George Wuerthner The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will soon decide whether to approve a Habitat Conservation Plan...