by Katie Fite | Dec 9, 2017
Louse Canyon Complex of Allotments – Disaster Spring Way back around year 2000 or so, Vale BLM conducted a rangeland health assessment in the Louse Canyon Complex of allotments. Grazing was causing scouring of drainages, head-cutting, desiccation and loss of spring...
by Katie Fite | Dec 9, 2017
Argenta Rock Creek Headwaters Dead Grouse Spring The NRST BLM-USFS-Cow Consultant Team of riparian “experts” (who exhibit extraordinary bias towards the interests of the permittees) drive right by severely degraded springs, meadows and drainages in Argenta – en route...
by Katie Fite | Dec 9, 2017
Trout Creek Headwaters, West Side of East Fork – Cow-Caused Desertification Another western headwater tributary drainage to Trout Creek in the Trout Creek Mountain allotment. This level of cattle use and permanent, irreversible damage the Burns BLM...
by Katie Fite | Dec 9, 2017
Loper Memorial Wildlife Exclosure – Donkey Hills The Donkey Hills Area of Critical Environmental Concern in the upper Pahsimeroi and Little Lost River watersheds is being tragically mis-managed by Challis BLM. Cattle grazing is destroying and permanently drying out...
by Katie Fite | Dec 8, 2017
Chronic Sage-Grouse Brood Rearing Habitat Damage and Desertification Processes Hutch Spring is typical of the cow-battered dying springs and meadows in the Owyhee uplands in both Bruneau and Owyhee BLM-managed lands. It is located in the Battle Creek allotment grazed...