We’re joined by Mac Lacy, Senior Attorney at Oregon Natural Desert Association; Paul Ruprecht, Nevada Director for Western Watersheds Project; and Laurie Rule, Senior Attorney at Advocates for the West. The panel discusses how conservationists can best advocate for protecting our public lands from harm caused by livestock grazing in light of recent regulatory rollbacks […]
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Advocates for the West filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) for failing to ensure cattle grazing on the Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in Montana’s Centennial Valley does not harm wildlife. We are representing WildEarth Guardians and Western Watersheds Project in the case. Despite long-standing recognition of grazing’s harmful […]
Advocates for the West and our partners won a strong victory to protect Oregon spotted frogs on Jack Creek within the Antelope Allotment of central Oregon’s Fremont-Winema National Forest. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) fell short of its obligations under the Endangered Species Act when […]
Advocates for the West filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for its failure to abide by the Federal Land Policy and Management Act to determine the prioritization and timing of environmental analyses for livestock grazing allotments on public lands. This has resulted in […]
This week, Advocates for the West filed a settlement agreement sending the Bureau of Land Management back to its planning desk to reconsider the impacts of livestock grazing on the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area (NCA)—a free-flowing river oasis in southeastern Arizona. The court-approved settlement compels the Bureau to reconsider the compatibility of grazing […]
By Andy Kerr Originally published May 26, 2017 on Andy’s blog site: www.andykerr.net It costs more to feed a domestic housecat than to graze domestic livestock on federal public lands. This has generally been the case since the early 1900s, when the federal government first required ranchers to pay a fee for grazing their livestock […]