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FIELD Report: ‘The Park’ New Exclosure, Trespass – Argenta, Nevada
fnArgenta New, Expensive Exclosure Already Broken into by Trespassing Cows The NRST drove by the area of dead grouse spring and the dying meadows enroute to the “Park” area to do MIM monitoring inside what was proposed as a new exclosure under segmented Argenta cow... read moreFIELD Report: BLM Elkhorn Creek – Challis, Idaho
Elkhorn Creek Elkhorn Creek, downstream of the Loper Exclosure, is located in the Challis BLM Donkey Hills Area of Critical Environmental Concern. Elkhorn Creek is a tributary to Burnt Creek, an occupied bull trout stream. It is treated as a sacrifice area to grossly... read moreFIELD Report: Jacks Creek Headwaters Up and Downstream of Reservoir
Jacks Creek Drainage Up and Downstream of Jacks’ Creek Reservoir and Exclosure Former Mesic and Spring Tributary Areas Destroyed by Cattle The first photos show the appalling condition of Jacks Creek headwaters upstream of Jacks Creek Reservoir “managed” by Bruneau... read moreFIELD Report: Jack Creek Reservoir Headwaters – Bruneau, Idaho
Jack Creek Reservoir Wildlife Exclosure A large area by Jack’s Creek Reservoir in the Bruneau BLM Northwest allotment on the Owyhee Plateau is supposed to be protected by a riparian habitat exclosure. Simplot is the primary Northwest permittee. Nearly every blade of... 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.