Time to Preserve the Gallatin Range in Montana
The Gallatin Range, which stretches from Bozeman’s backyard south into Yellowstone National Park, is the most significant piece of wildland of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem that lacks permanent...
View ArticleWild Earth Journal Archives
Intended as yet another instrument for attacking anthropocentric ideologies and voracious agricultural/industrial civilizations, the journal Wild Earth was published between 1991–2004. For those of you...
View ArticleWITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE, PRESERVATIONISTS DON’T NEED ENEMIES (Feral Horses...
On April 24th, 2024, the Vermont Law and Graduate School and Wild Horse Fire Brigade sent a letter to the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) District office in Medford, Oregon, proposing a collaboration...
View ArticleWhy you cannot take protective land designations for granted
I started to be involved in conservation issues when I was 15 growing up in southern California. I watched natural areas that I loved being bulldozed into oblivion for sprawl development. I’ve...
View ArticleYellowstone Bison Plan Favors Tribal Culture Over Preserving Wild Bison
Yellowstone National Park recently released its Final Bison Management Plan. It arbitrarily limits bison numbers through tribal hunting outside of the park and the transfer of public Yellowstone bison...
View ArticleWhat A Map Can Tell Us
I studied geography in grad school. One of the basic premises of geography is that maps can show graphical concepts and ideas that might not be obvious with other forms of communication. The map of...
View ArticleI = P x T x E – Part 1
Impacts are Equal to Population multiplied by Tools multiplied by Energy available to drive those Tools Editors Note: The Wildlife News has a history of tackling difficult and sometimes uncomfortable...
View ArticleMany conservation groups have forgotten their histories and roots: Montana is...
“The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs defenders.” Ed Abbey Abbey was right. There have been a number of books and articles over the last twenty or thirty years that have critically...
View ArticleCrown Jewels A Video That Promotes Forest Degradation
I just finished watching the film Crown Jewels. Many conservation groups are promoting the movie, but few are willing to critique some of the flawed premises in the video. It is admirable that the...
View ArticleOld Growth Logging Challenged in Bitterroot National Forest
The Gold Butterfly logging and burning project, east of Corvallis, Montana, is in wolverine and grizzly bear habitat and bull trout critical habitat in the Sapphire Mountains on the Bitterroot National...
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