The Gallatin Range, which stretches from Bozeman’s backyard south into Yellowstone National Park, is the most significant piece of wildland of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem that lacks per...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/05/05/time-to-preserve-the-gallatin-range-in-montana/
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.
Episode 123: Who Pays for Conservation, Being the Lorax, and Introducing A New Voice For Western Lands Conservation Join George Wuerthner and Jonathan Ratner in conversation with Jack Humphrey of...
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/
Giant Sequoia May Require High-severity Blazes for their surival. Photo George Wuerthner During the summer of 2020 and 2021, with one of the most severe droughts in California’s recent history,...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/04/08/human-intervention-not-necessary-for-sequoia-survival/
How many people know that in the state of Washington, more wolves are killed by Native people than any other group? You probably haven’t heard about this, even from wolf advocacy groups. How ma...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2024/02/06/indian-iron-curtain-or-the-emperor-has-no-clothes/
Yellowstone was established in 1872 primarily to protect the unique geological thermal features of the park. Photo George Wuerthner I see almost weekly repetitions of the myths or revisionist h...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2022/03/01/response-to-misguided-guardian-yellowstone-commentary/
Did Native American use of fire make it so that wild country never really existed? When reporting about wildfire, current stories in the media often claim that in prehistory, fire was deliberatel...
A BLM (U.S. Bureau of Land Management) decision to allow livestock grazing to grow up to three times in the Owyhee Country of southwest Idaho has been blocked for now by a Dept. of Interior judge...