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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A Beginner’s Guide to Buying a US Ranch
Here is a British financial analyst’s take on U.S. ranch ownership, which gets it partly right. While most ranches don’t produce annual cash returns that remotely reflect their market value, that doesn’t make them […]
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A Navy Veteran Went to Prison for Digging Ponds in the Mountains
“Range practices we take for granted in Texas can land you in prison out West. Notwithstanding the many fine things accomplished by EPA, actions like these really hurt public attitudes about conservation – and […]
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Bayer’s Roundup Problem Slashes Its Market Value
Many of the mergers and acquisitions that harm companies, workers and customers are motivated by bonuses—the ones that managers and boards pay themselves for putting these deals together. Even so, Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto seems […]
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