In nature, different animals eat different kinds of plants and there are specific species for every such “ecological niche”. Where native animals have gone missing, domestic goats can be used to replace animals that once […]
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Baby Boomers Are Leaving Behind a Trail of Luxury Ranches
It is true that Western legend no longer captures American imagination as it once did. But the main reason many Colorado – and Western – ranch sellers can’t sell their big ranches is that so […]
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Understanding the Ecological Role of Wolves in Yellowstone National Park
Loathed as a threat and nuisance, the wolf population in Yellowstone National Park was essentially wiped out by the mid 1920’s. That changed in 1995, when the National Park Service reintroduced them there, with the […]
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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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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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Hunting Is Conservation – Hunting is Sustainable, Helps Species Thrive
The anti-hunter claim that hunting is not a sustainable model and the populations of hunted species will decline and no longer flourish is simply untrue.
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Back to Nature: Making Money While Restoring The Land
Going against the grain has paid off for these beef producers and even encouraged other conventional farmers to change course.
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Who Gets to Own the West?
This article complains that private landowners won’t open their land to the public in Idaho, a state in which about 70 percent of all land already belongs to the public, but is mostly controlled by […]
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