How Biden’s 30×30 conservation plan may affect western ranchers, federal grazing lands
President Biden’s “America The Beautiful” executive order mandates the federal government to work on conserving 30 percent of land by 2030. Here is how the Bureau of Land Management is…
Read More...Enviros aim to eliminate states’ funding over wolf hunting laws
(Subscription) States would lose federal wildlife funding if they “excessively” target predator species like wolves, cougars and grizzly bears, under a new petition to the Interior Department filed by myriad…
Read More...BLM to round up half of Wyoming’s wild horses
The BLM will round up most wild horses in five herd management areas in southwestern Wyoming, beginning as soon as Oct. 7. Removed horses will be “freeze branded, vaccinated, dewormed…
Read More...Regan eyes November for next step in WOTUS process
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan says a proposal to restore regulations defining “waters of the U.S.” to those that were in place before the Obama administration’s 2015 rule could…
Read More...USDA Accepts More Than 2.5 Million Acres in Grassland Conservation Reserve Program
The USDA has accepted more than 2.5 million acres into this year’s Grassland Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) signup. This is double last year’s enrollment and brings the total acres enrolled across…
Read More...Wyoming to ask US to lift Yellowstone grizzly protections
Wyoming will ask the federal government to remove its protections for grizzly bears in the Yellowstone region and permit the region’s three states to manage and potentially allow hunting of…
Read More...US Forest Service hits brakes on Arizona restoration project
The U.S. Forest Service has put the brakes on an effort to thin hundreds of square miles of land in Arizona to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires, drawing sharp…
Read More...Feds consider re-listing wolf as state hunts start
Gray wolves in the West could go back under federal ESA protection due to the risk of “potential increases in human-caused mortality,” the USFWS announced. The decision to start a 12-month…
Read More...US tribes demand emergency protection for wolves
Dozens of American Indian tribes asked the Biden administration Tuesday to immediately enact emergency protections for gray wolves, saying states have become too aggressive in hunting the animal.
Read More...USDA Expands Assistance to Cover Feed Transportation Costs for Drought-Impacted Ranchers in California
In response to the severe drought conditions in the West and Great Plains, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today its plans to help cover the cost of transporting…
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