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...
by Katie Fite | Apr 28, 2016
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...
by Natalie Ertz | Apr 22, 2016
Ground Control In his article on the USDA’s Wildlife Services program, Christopher Ketcham [“The Rogue Agency,” Report, March] relied on grossly outdated and inaccurate accounts. He declined our offer to observe a depredation investigation, relying instead on one...
by Katie Fite | Apr 19, 2016
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...
by Natalie Ertz | Apr 7, 2016
The controversy regarding feeding wintering elk has hit the public eye yet again after wolves were accused of killing 19 elk at a feeding station in Wyoming in March. Although agencies maintain that wolves were responsible in Wyoming, there are many questions yet to...
