by Katie Fite | Nov 30, 2015
WLD and WHE are non-profit organizations, and “Argenta Interested Publics.” Katie Fite of WLD and Laura Leigh of WHE have combined decades of experience in public lands grazing, interact with BLM staff on a routine basis, participate in site visits regularly regarding...
by Katie Fite | Nov 14, 2015
WLD is working hard to protect Sage Grouse habitat in West Little Owyhee/Louse Canyon country. WLD’s Katie Fite visited the Campbell Allotment this year and found this critical habitat being decimated by livestock, noxious weed presence as well as alarming...
by Katie Fite | Nov 12, 2015
Redband trout are known for their hardiness and ability to survive in often fragmented habitat. However, conditions in watersheds suffering no-stop chronic cattle grazing impacts coupled with loss of tree cover reach a tipping point where the fish can no longer...
by wildlandsdefense | Oct 26, 2015
WildLands Defense, Inc (WLD) officially protested BLM’s proposed decision to increase the number of sheep grazing on the Elkhorn Allotment just south of Ketchum and Sun Valley to 2500, roughly doubling the amount of livestock on the landscape. WLD protested the...
by Katie Fite | Oct 14, 2015
Idaho BLM has its PR machine in overdrive hyping the monstrously expensive Owyhee Soda Fire rehab plan designed largely to benefit Owyhee public lands welfare ranchers. SIXTY SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS! Yet Neil Kornze estimated a ten million cost only a few weeks ago. WLD...
by Katie Fite | Oct 2, 2015
United States Department of the Interior BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT Mount Lewis Field Office 50 Bastian Road Battle Mountain, Nevada 89820 Phone: 775-635-4000 Fax: 775-635-4034 http://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/battle_mountain_field.html MEMORANDUM Michael Vermeys,...
