Owyhee Soda Fire Rehab to Benefit Public Lands Ranchers
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... read more
Lawless Grazing in Battle Mountain BLM Argenta Allotment 2015 under BLM Director Neil Kornze and the National Riparian “Services” Team
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,... read moreSave the Castle Rock Prairie Dogs
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... read more
WLD Expresses Concerns over Sage-Grouse ‘Super PACs’
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... read more[Letter from Nevada] | The Great Republican Land Heist by Christopher Ketcham
“[I]n the spring the new shoots on the sage, iridescent, light, and soft, bow in the wind and what that creates on the landscape is an evocation of the wind on the sea. And when the wind blows at dusk after the rain, there’s the sweetest smell.”. .
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Natalie Ertz
Executive Director
Inspired by a howl with the late Phantom Hill Wolf Pack of central Idaho, Natalie Ertz has been tracking and monitoring wolves in the central Idaho backcountry for over six years.
During much of that time, Natalie served and learned from Lynne Stone of the Boulder-White Cloud Council providing oversight of the federal and state MANagement of wolves.
Natalie’s passion for wolves and public landscapes is inspired by a deep appreciation for the wild, an appreciation borne on-the-ground.
Brian Ertz
Board President
Brian Ertz is Natalie Ertz’s brother. Brian is in his final year of law school, currently serves as the Chair of the Sierra Club’s National Grazing Team, Conservation Chair of the Sawtooth Group of the Sierra Club and previously spent 7 years as Media Director for Western Watersheds Project. Since that time Brian has consulted a variety of public interest environmental nonprofits on administrative, policy, and media advocacy.
Katie Fite
Board Secretary
Katie Fite brings over 30 years of on-the-ground experience to WLD’s advocacy.
As Western Watersheds Project’s Biodiversity Director, Katie has monitored more public ground–from Modena to the Modoc to Mcdermitt, the Lemhis to Little Blue Table to the Little Lost to Leslie Gulch, from Jarbidge to Jump Creek to Jim Sage, the Pahsimeroi to the Pancake Range, Calico Mountains to Castleford–and brought more headache to those anti-environmental bureaucrats at BLM and Forest Service than arguably any other single person in the Western United States.