by Katie Fite | Dec 18, 2017
Argenta “The Park” Monitoring Site The NRST group proposed to fence this area off so that next year “improvement” could be claimed to bias the outcome of a Land Health assessment process. Two little areas of fence were to be separated by a filthy cow ‘water gap”. This...
by Katie Fite | Dec 18, 2017
Argenta Smashed Cage Spring I had initially encountered this severely degraded spring in 2015, the first summer after the usurpation of management control by the NRST “Cooperative Management Group” imposed under a Settlement agreement orchestrated by then-NV BLM...
by Katie Fite | Dec 18, 2017
Rock Creek Monitoring Site There are highly degraded conditions at the site of a proposed NRST band-aid fence on a segment of Rock Creek in the Argenta allotment. This site is by a main access road. There is no reason that the Argenta permittees could not work to herd...
by Katie Fite | Dec 18, 2017
Argenta New, Expensive Exclosure Already Broken into by Trespassing Cows The NRST drove by the area of dead grouse spring and the dying meadows enroute to the “Park” area to do MIM monitoring inside what was proposed as a new exclosure under segmented Argenta cow...
by Katie Fite | Dec 17, 2017
Elkhorn Creek Elkhorn Creek, downstream of the Loper Exclosure, is located in the Challis BLM Donkey Hills Area of Critical Environmental Concern. Elkhorn Creek is a tributary to Burnt Creek, an occupied bull trout stream. It is treated as a sacrifice area to grossly...
by Katie Fite | Dec 13, 2017
Jacks Creek Drainage Up and Downstream of Jacks’ Creek Reservoir and Exclosure Former Mesic and Spring Tributary Areas Destroyed by Cattle The first photos show the appalling condition of Jacks Creek headwaters upstream of Jacks Creek Reservoir “managed” by Bruneau...
