- Welfare Ranching – The Subsidized Destruction of the American West Now available for download
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.
- George Wuerthner and Jonathan Ratner on the Rewilding Earth Podcast
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 The Rewilding Institute for a discussion about the direction of conservation in the United States, the shift of American conservation from its roots in biocentrism
- Sage Grouse “Collaborative Conservation Effort” is an On-Going Disaster
The numbers don’t lie — and the sage grouse “collaborative conservation effort” is a total and on-going failure. There were 16 million Greater Sage Grouse before Europeans arrived and began the destruction of the “sagebrush sea” in the Great Plains. The iconic birds were down to 400,000 in 2015 when Obama’s Secretary of Interior, Sally Jewell, rejected
- Ambler Road Construction Denied by Biden Administration
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-mile industrial road through the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve to access copper and zinc deposits in Northwest Alaska. Except for the route across
- Utah’s War on Cougars
Twenty-seven states (at last count) now have “right to hunt and fish” constitutional amendments. These laws are an attempt to secure public hunting, trapping, and fishing rights in perpetuity. They also help secure the future of traditional state wildlife governance & management that caters almost exclusively to people who engage in hunting, trapping, and fishing
Thousands of Bees Attack Woman, Kill Horses
Bees are a major concern and can be deadly. If you have bees, always let a professional handle the situation. Africanized bees, like the ones mentioned in the following article from NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, can be very agressive and are growing problem in Texas and the southern... READ MORE