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RANGEfire! | What I Learned from the Range Rights Workshops — Riding the Range — by Redtail Rose
RANGEfire! Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in 2016, but we are republishing it now, in memory of Dr. Angus McIntosh. If you ever get the chance to sit through one of Dr. Angus McIntosh’s workshops, it’s a lot to try to absorb in one setting, and I mean a lot. That’s why I’m…
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RANGEfire! | Grazing Rights Guru Dr. Angus McIntosh has Died
RANGEfire! We don’t have all the details yet, and we will try to provide more when we get them, but Dr. Angus McIntosh, president of the Grazing Allotment Owners Association, and recognized expert on the subject of federal grazing allotments, has passed away. The post Grazing Rights Guru Dr. Angus McIntosh has Died first appeared…
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ShareTrails | Guidance for Protecting Trails Around Moab – Gemini Bridges and Labyrinth Canyon Travel Management Plan
BlueRibbon Coalition/ShareTrails As part of the travel management settlement with SUWA, BLM is currently updating 13 travel management plans across the state of Utah. BlueRibbon Coalition was a defendant intervenor in the case, and we have been vigilantly participating in the process of updating the plans. This is a substantial effort, and we have created…
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ShareTrails | Dispersed Camping Threatened in Chaffee County Travel Management Planning
BlueRibbon Coalition/ShareTrails The BLM is currently working to create and update existing travel management within Chaffee County, Colorado. The BLM’s current considerations regarding this travel management planning process include whether and how much to limit dispersed camping, construction of developed campsites, managing increased recreational use, managing user conflicts between recreational users and adjacent land owners, and…
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American Stewards | American Stewards Helps Prepare Basis for Delisting the Golden-cheeked Warbler
American Stewards (LMNS June 8, 2021) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) placed the Golden-cheeked warbler (GCW) under federal protection in 1990, as an endangered species. The GCW’s habitat covers a wide swath of Texas land that stretches above Fort Worth and down to the Mexican border. The decision was highly controversial as many…
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American Stewards | Nebraska Governor Ricketts Holds “Stop 30 x 30” Town Hall Meetings
American Stewards (LMNS June 8, 2021) Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts has been holding “Stop 30 x 30” town hall meetings across the State to educate landowners on the program and help them identify the conservation vehicles that could be used by the federal agencies to reach the 30 percent goal. Nebraska is 97 percent private…
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American Stewards | Voluntary Conservation Programs Not Enough to Keep Lesser Prairie Chicken Off Endangered List
American Stewards (LMNS June 8, 2021) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has issued a new rule proposing to place the Lesser prairie chicken (LPC) on the Endangered Species list, again. In 2014, they issued a final rule to list the species as threatened, which was immediately challenged by the Permian Basin Petroleum Association…
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RANGEfire! | Montana taxpayers are subsidizing APR’s “rewilding” schemes
RANGEfire! Opinion by Montana State Representative Dan Bartel for Northern Ag Network The tax exemption APR enjoys also gives them a major advantage in the marketplace for land. APR is able to pay premium prices as they compete directly against young farmers and ranchers trying to get their start. By Rep. Dan Bartel In central…
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RANGEfire! | The historical solution for Oregon’s rural/urban separation
RANGEfire! The Oregon Compromise of 2021 by GREG WALCHER on JUNE 2, 2021 This month, voters in five counties of eastern Oregon voted to instruct local officials to take action to secede from Oregon, and join Idaho instead. Separatist movements are not especially uncommon in the West – several have sprouted in Colorado over the years – but…
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RANGEfire! | Big meat packers make huge profits while American ranchers struggle
RANGEfire! A Letter from Senator Mike Rounds (SD) and Senator Tina Smith (MN) May 27, 2021 The Honorable Merrick Garland Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530 Dear Attorney General Garland, The time has come for the government to determine whether the stranglehold large meatpackers have over the beef…