WLD February Update

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...
Thrill Kill at the EPA

Thrill Kill at the EPA

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...
‘Dear BLM’ Archives: Pahsimeroi Valley, Idaho

‘Dear BLM’ Archives: Pahsimeroi Valley, Idaho

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...
Jarbidge to Malheur: the Rough Road to Understanding

Jarbidge to Malheur: the Rough Road to Understanding

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...
Owyhee Initiative Wise Use County Supremacy Collaboration

Owyhee Initiative Wise Use County Supremacy Collaboration

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...