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,...
by wildlandsdefense | Mar 13, 2015
A billion dollar real-estate developer with a Castle Rock, Colorado town council in its back pocket and a plan for one million square feet of retail space that nobody wants and nobody needs. A beautiful colony of black-tailed prairie dogs who call the mall’s...
by Katie Fite | Feb 28, 2015
February 28, 2015 Sally Jewell, Secretary of Interior Michael Bean, Principal Deputy, Fish, Wildlife and Parks Neil Kornze, Director Bureau of Land Management James Lyons, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Lands and Minerals Management Sarah Greenberger, Senior...
by Natalie Ertz | Jan 6, 2015
On the third day of the wolf-killing contest, an earthquake shook the mountains near Salmon, Idaho. “It’s Mother Earth revolting against the cruelty, the violence, the madness, of what’s happening here,” said Brian Ertz, president of the...
