by wildlandsdefense | May 17, 2012
Less than a year after Flat Top Ranch was awarded $600,000 for a conservation easement – half of which was paid for by a Blaine County levy assessed to protect wildlife – Flat Top Ranch has run into more conflicts with wolves: Jerome Hansen, supervisor of the Idaho...
by wildlandsdefense | May 15, 2012
A new federal assessment of rangelands in the West finds a disturbingly large portion fails to meet range health standards principally due to commercial livestock operations. In the last decade as more land has been assessed, estimates of damaged lands have doubled...
by wildlandsdefense | Apr 17, 2012
Federal Judge Douses the Flames – for Now Custer County Commissioners have been rattling their sabres over a central Idaho road closure enforced by the Bureau of Land Management. The closure occurred 12 years ago after a landslide and prevents off-road-vehicles...
by wildlandsdefense | Sep 16, 2011
After receiving a groundswell of public comments prompted local wolf advocates’, Lynne Stone and Natalie Ertz, tireless effort the Blaine County Commission voted to require the Flat Top Ranch and The Nature Conservancy to provide a predator management plan emphasizing...
