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 Natalie Ertz | Dec 29, 2016
Journalist Jeremy Miller explores the mentality behind predator and trophy hunting in this fascinating article about the the history of federal governments loophole in the ESA called the McKittrick policy, which has allowed hunter’s to kill endangered species...
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 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on the USDA’s Wildlife Services program, Christopher Ketcham [“The Rogue Agency,” Report, March] relied on grossly outdated and inaccurate accounts.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 Natalie Ertz | Feb 12, 2016
Christopher Ketchum on USDA’s Wildlife Services: …”Since 2000, Wildlife Services operatives have killed at least 2 million native mammals and 15 million native birds. Many of these animals are iconic in the American West and beloved by the public....
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...
