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...
‘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...

Toxic Range: the BLM’s Growing Chemical Addiction

APRIL 27, 2016 by KATIE FITE BLM is escalating herbicide use on public lands in the wake of the September 2015 Sage-grouse Plan Amendments and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Not Warranted Finding for ESA listing. A primary agency excuse for forsaking sage-grouse...

Soda Fire Redband Trout Watershed Dying Tributaries

These photos show the current degraded condition of watershed areas in Owyhee redband and sage-grouse habitats. Grazing had caused headcutting and prevented willows from occupying banks. The drainage system is dying. The Soda Rehab Plan and nearly all current Owyhee...