This paper began as an effort to persuade Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) to cease its efforts to eradicate elk on the state lands which it manages in far-West Texas. Our assumption was that […]
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Grizzly Bears: The Fierce Predator of the North
Grizzly bears are at the top of the food chain, but much of their diet consists of fruit, roots, and grasses.
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Let’s Fix Our National Parks…
Common sense about how to fund our national park system. Quoting the authors, “True conservation is taking care of the land and water you already have, not insatiably acquiring more and hoping it […]
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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation: an Analysis by PERC (Property and Environment Research Center)
The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation is the basis on which public wildlife and habitat is supposed to be managed in the United States. Central ideas are that science will govern decisions, and human […]
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Grizzly Bear Recovery and Management
Summary The Greater Yellowstone ecosystem grizzly’s recovery is due to the collaboration of federal biologists, states, tribes, conservation groups, and landowners. Congress should encourage these efforts to continue while preserving the flexibility states and tribes […]
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Largest Animal Epidemic in History Is Due to Factory Meat Production
The African Swine Fever outbreak, which has now spread to China, could result in the slaughter of 200 million hogs this year, in an effort to get the disease under control. Rob Wallace of the […]
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Solving the Wildfire Crisis Requires Free-Market Solutions
Common sense ways to reduce wildfires.
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Restoring Elk Country-Little Snowy Mountains Montana
Due to fire suppression and a lack of active management, forests can become unnaturally dense and overgrown…and that’s bad news for elk and other wildlife in need of quality forage and habitat. With that in mind, […]
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Elk and Calves
A mother elk, her yearling calf and this year’s twins, captured in one of our newly-opened ATV trails at Pitchstone Waters.
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Farm Animals May Soon Get New Features Through Gene Editing
Hybridization of plants and animals is as old as agriculture. However, most GMOs have made plants more tolerant to herbicides, and thus are essentially drivers for the agrochemical companies that sell both the seeds and […]
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Goats Eat Weeds – Farm to Fork Wyoming
In Wyoming battles between sheepherders and cattlemen are legendary and harrowing. With that turbulent history it is a little surprising that the daughter of an old Wyoming ranching family is a leading force behind weed […]
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