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RANGEfire! | Federal judge kills President Trump’s WOTUS reforms, clarifications
Originally found on RANGEfire!. Opinion: Muddying the Clean Water Act If you Don’t Get the Answer You Want, Go Ask Your Father By: Conner Nicklas Budd-Falen Law Offices LLC Remember when you were a kid and you would calculate whether to ask your mother or your father depending on the answer you wanted? That is…
Targeted Cattle Grazing Quickly Contains Wildfires in the Great Basin
Originally found on Latest updates. USDA Agricultural Research Service Press Release Press Release Contact Kim Kaplan BOISE, IDAHO, August 10 2021—Using cattle grazing to create firebreaks on landscapes invaded by cheatgrass has successfully contained three rangeland wildfires in four years in the Great Basin—the latest being the Welch wildfire near Elko, Nevada, on July 18.…
Animal Rights vs Hunters—Who Really Helps Animals?
Originally found on Latest updates. From an article in Forbes September 9, 2021 By Chris Dorsey, award-winning journalist and author of a dozen books whose work has appeared in scores of publications including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, National Geographic, the Robb Report and many others. Perhaps you’ve seen the late-night appeals on cable channels…
‘Americans For Family Farmers’: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Originally found on Latest updates. Farm News Media September 9, 2021 The president of a group claiming to support “family farms” has deep ties to the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and efforts backing California’s law on animal spacing, Michigan Farm News has learned. Americans For Family Farmers recently sent requests to numerous…
ShareTrails | Help Stop Campsite Closures in Allegheny National Forest
Originally found on BlueRibbon Coalition/ShareTrails. The picture above is near one of the campgrounds that the Forest Service is planning to close in a Recreation Site Analysis in the Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania. It appears that the FS is using a new tool to take public comment on this proposal where you can go…
EATS Act Introduced to Block California Animal Confinement Rules
Originally found on Latest updates. By Brian German, Ag New Director, AgNet West The animal confinement rules established in Proposition 12 are now being challenged through Congressional action. Legislation was recently introduced in the U.S. Senate aimed at preventing states and local governments from interfering with agricultural interstate commerce. The Exposing Agricultural Trade Suppression ACT,…
RANGEfire! | Oregon court decision could be “death knell” for Taylor Grazing Act
Originally found on RANGEfire!. In practical terms, the decision will make it tougher for ranchers to transfer private property, including to family members, without encountering heavy regulatory burdens, he said. by Mateusz Perkowski for Capital Press Oregon ranchers lose appeal over “grazing priority” An Oregon ranch family has failed to convince a federal appeals court…
American Stewards | EPA Back to Regulating Wet Meadows and Prairie Potholes
Originally found on American Stewards. The court case of Pascua Yaqui Tribe v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, decided by Judge Rosemary Márquez in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, has effectively overturned the Trump era Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule that placed a much-needed limitation on what waters could be regulated…
American Stewards | ASL Files Notice to Sue on Cave Bug Delisting
Originally found on American Stewards. The first delisting petition we filed, June 2014, was to remove the Bone cave harvestman, a microscopic terrestrial karst invertebrate, or cave bug, from the federal endangered species list. We filed this action because the best available science demonstrated the species was not endangered, was well protected, and should never…
American Stewards | New Mexico Governor Usher’s in “Half Earth” Agenda
Originally found on American Stewards. Few would be surprised to learn that New Mexico’s Governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, would be the first to move beyond the 30 x 30 land protection goal of environmentalists, and jump right to the ultimate agenda: permanently protecting “half” the earth. The “Half Earth” project founded by E.O Wilson, advocates…