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Bacterial Brucellosis Disease

Yellowstone National Park Calls for More Bison in New Plan

Yellowstone National Park is proposing a major shift in its strategy for managing bison, one that could mean larger herds, expanded hunting opportunities beyond park borders, and more bison transfers to tribal governments.

Conservation

Changing Paradigms | Regenerative Agriculture: a Solution to our Global Crisis?

“Changing Paradigms” explores the power of regenerative agriculture in improving the natural environment, human health, and reliable profit in sheep farming. We, as humans, have an innate attraction to the natural world. But, the way we currently interact with the environment is unsustainable and causing a disconnect with nature. We

Forestries

Plans for an Ailing Forest Include Logging, and Some Are Suspicious

Officials in Oregon say they need to cut trees, including some healthy ones. The reaction shows how complex land management has become as forest health declines.

Bird Flu

Bird Flu is Highly Lethal to Some Animals, but Not to Others. Scientists Want to Know Why

Scientists are trying to determine why bird flu kills some animals quickly but leads to mild illnesses in others

News

See Landslide Cause Highway to Fall Off Mountain Near Jackson Hole

In the summer of 2024, Teton Pass was closed following a “catastrophic landslide."

killing of wolves

A Bill to Ban Wildlife "Whacking"

Wolf and coyote whacking is currently legal in Idaho as well as Wyoming. Technically, only coyote whacking is legal in Montana, but few can distinguish a young wolf from a coyote, and enforcement is almost impossible.

Bio-Diversity

Trees Are Spreading Across the Great Plains. They're Actually Making Climate Change Worse

We normally think of trees as being good for the environment. But in parts of the Midwest and Great Plains, they’re heating up the earth as woodlands take over grasslands.

Bison

Study: Bison Herd Removes More Carbon Than World’s Largest CO2 Capture Plant

A herd of bison in Romania might actually be better for the planet than the world’s largest carbon capture facility , according to recent findings by scientists at the Yale School of the Environment.

Bio-Diversity

Plow and Tractor for Desert Grassland Keyline Subsoiling

This video discuss equipment for Keyline subsoil plowing. Over 30 American companies make plows that can be used for Keyline contour subsoiling.

Beavers

The Diesel-Powered Beavers of the Big Hole

In August of 1919, the Lower Big Hole River ran dry.

Bio-Diversity

Why is Regenerative Agriculture Important?

More about regenerative agriculture, and a focus on land management which provides rich soil and grass for cows to consume on pastures.

Wild Horses

Horse Roundups! Can They be Stopped With 'Fertility Control'?

The debate about wild horses becomes easier when approached holistically.

Catastrophic wildfires

Anthropologist Documents How Women and Shepherds Historically Reduced Wildfire Risk in Central Italy

In the last several decades, large forest fires have increasingly threatened communities across the Mediterranean.

Bio-Diversity

Beaver and Coho Salmon

Salmon and trout fishermen take note: beaver are essential to healthy fish stocks.

Rain

Growing Rain in the Desert

Landowner innovation and long-term research is showing that low-tech restoration practices not only capture more rainwater, they may create more rain.

Bio-Diversity

Soil for Water

Tina Weldon and her partner Orion are among a growing network of farmers, ranchers, and land managers are taking steps to catch and hold more water in the soil.

"Invasion Biology"

They Shoot Owls in California, Don’t They?

An audacious federal plan to protect the spotted owl would eradicate hundreds of thousands of barred owls in the coming years.

cattle grazing

Grazing Forested Rangelands

Livestock producers use forest grazing to increase pasture acres, temporarily or permanently, while providing protection for livestock from the elements.

deer genetics

DMP Parents Don’t Pass Bigger Antlers To Wild-Born Offspring

Raising big bodied, big antlered bucks is something of a pastime for a number of Texas landowners and deer managers. For many it’s simply a fun kind of pastime; for others it’s become an intensely studied and intensely applied, well-honed practice.

Conservation

Abusive Land Grab of Family Farm

Sadly, the history of charitable giving abounds with examples of gifts used in ways the donors would never have imagined – let alone approved.

Chronic Wasting Disease

Two Hunters Died of Rare Prion Disease. Doctors Suspect a First-of-Its Kind Deer Transmission

Two recent cases of prion disease in the U.S. may have been caused by contaminated deer meat, though the connection is still unproven.

"Invasion Biology"

Conserving the Legacy by Wyman Meizner

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.

Conservation

BLM to Finalize Rule Allowing Federal Leases Targeted at Protection of Natural Area

It also creates two new types of leases focused on protecting natural areas. The BLM already leases parcels of land for extractive industries including energy development, mining and livestock grazing.

Bureau of Land Management

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox Vows to Sue Over New BLM Landscape Rule

The Utah Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office said the rule directly impacts 22.8 million acres of land in Utah and, contrary to what the BLM asserts, it is not a positive step toward conservation.

food-supply

Sacred Cow Film - Official Version

The world is overwhelmed when choosing what to eat. Sacred Cow probes the fundamental moral, environmental and nutritional quandaries we face in raising and eating animals.