by Katie Fite | Jul 18, 2017
The Argenta allotment is home to drought denying public lands welfare ranchers who, while collecting two million dollars in drought disaster funds, bullied Battle Mountain BLM into caving into their desires. This was facilitated by then Nevada BLM Director John Ruhs...
by Natalie Ertz | Mar 28, 2017
Keeping a keen eye on the the political transition of 2017 View this email in your browser Friends, Things are changing fast for the the wild this year. The Obama Administration left office, sweeping a blizzard of expensive and damaging “treatment” and energy...
by Katie Fite | Feb 5, 2017
WildLands Defense’s Katie Fite’s latest article in Counterpunch: EPA and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regularly caved into toxic chemical purveyors in the Obama administration. The agencies have long been crippled. A prime example is authorizing the...
by Natalie Ertz | Dec 29, 2016
Journalist Jeremy Miller explores the mentality behind predator and trophy hunting in this fascinating article about the the history of federal governments loophole in the ESA called the McKittrick policy, which has allowed hunter’s to kill endangered species...
by Katie Fite | Sep 18, 2016
From: Katie Fite Subject: Lower Elkhorn creek in donkey hills ACEC Date: September 10, 2016 at 1:12:45 PM MDT To: Cc: Dear BLM Here are conditions WildLands Defense observed on lower Elkhorn Creek in the Donkey Hills. You may recall that on a...
by Katie Fite | Sep 6, 2016
SEPTEMBER 5, 2016 COUNTERPUNCH.ORG by KATIE FITE The Jarbidge Road incident took place in the Dark Ages when there was minimal electronic and social media in the West. Elko County, Sagebrush Rebels Grant Gerber, John Carpenter, Demar Dahl and others tied the Forest...