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 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...
by Katie Fite | Sep 4, 2016
The Idaho Owyhee Monument Proposal of 2000 demonstrates how so many of the values of the landscape, and Objects of Importance identified in the Proposal, are being destroyed by public lands welfare ranching. Cheatgrass, medusahead and other Weeds are sweeping the...
by Natalie Ertz | Apr 29, 2016
It is only because of the efforts of the Senate Committee head and staffers at the time the Owyhee Initiative legislation was moving in Washington that several really terrible provisions of the Draft OI legislation were removed by the time of its passage in 2009...