Restoring Biodiversity - 8/6/2024

Restoring Biodiversity - 8/6/2024
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Great Salt lake is recharging. Ag and Energy groups are challenging the BLM. Holistic Management at work. And more...


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Here is what we’ve been reading, watching and writing about over the past week…

Here is what we’ve been reading, watching and writing about over the past week…

Articles

As Western Drought Recedes, the Great Salt Lake Is the Biggest It’s Been in Years

Though both are responsible, the biggest problem with water levels in Great Salt Lake is withdrawals from the lake’s tributaries, not ‘drought’.

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Ag and Energy Groups File Lawsuit Challenging New BLM Public Lands Rule

For decades now, Western ranchers have been systematically squeezed off public lands.

Touted as ‘conservation’ these policies have proven harmful to wildlife and habitat, and disastrous to our precious ranching culture, as often explained on this blog.

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Videos

Mending Fences – An RMEF Film

Woven wire fencing dating back almost a century hinders all wildlife, especially calves and fawns, from following historic migration corridors and may force a dangerous crossing of lower elevation roadways.

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Holistic Management at Work

Holistic management uses a long term planning process that assigns to environmental and social outcomes the same importance as profits. In addition to being particularly suited to the deserts of far-West Texas, its grazing and wildlife practices will work anywhere in the West.

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