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...
by Katie Fite | Dec 5, 2017
Rat Fink Exclosure Causing New Damage The upper of 2 band aid NRST exclosures in Rat Fink watershed has resulted (predictably) in extensive cow trailing along the fence. This has already caused gullying two feet deeper in one site where the fence crosses a cow...
by Katie Fite | Dec 5, 2017
Argenta Lower Rat Fink Fence Perches, Erosion, Sacrifice of Areas Outside Exclosures Abundant raptor whitewash on posts and horizontal pipe at the Rat Fink exclosure BLM and the NRST are building great structures to facilitate predation of grouse, chukars, etc I...
by Katie Fite | Dec 5, 2017
Argenta Sage-grouse Meadow Monitoring Ignored in Many Sites in Mountain Pasture Areas Argenta springs and meadows are being destroyed by cattle grazing under the NRST quasi-Collaborative Group grazing scheme. The NRST “experts” drive right by this area when driving...
by Katie Fite | Nov 30, 2017
Argenta PFC Ignores Numerous Riparian Areas After being ordered in spring 2017 by an Interior Administrative Law Judge to allow WildLands Defense access to Argenta monitoring, WLD observed the biased manner in which PFC (riparian condition) monitoring was being...
