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On January 7th, Santa Ana winds up to 100 mph whipped across the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles. A blaze ignited in Eaton Canyon created a shower of embers that rained down on the community of Altadena that destroyed more than 9,000 structures and killed 17 people. The source of the blaze is still…
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Over the last 18 months, I have started working on Lahontan Cutthroat Trout issues in Nevada. It’s been an eye-opener as to the ineffectiveness of the ESA to protect listed species. The Lahontan Cutthroat was listed under the ESA more than half a century ago, yet most of its remnant habitat has been and continues…
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I published Energy: Overdevelopment and The Delusion of Endless Growth a few years ago. In my research for that book, I gained a couple of insights about energy and its ultimate costs. First, oil and gas are sold on the global market, ultimately setting the price of oil and gas at the pump. Second, energy companies…
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Public lands belong to all of us, and protecting them requires collaboration, strategy, and action. That’s why we want to share an important event happening May 28-30, 2025 The Healthy Public Lands Conference is a gathering of advocates, experts, and community members working to address the challenges facing our public lands. From overgrazing and habitat…
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An Interview with Jonathan Ratner, Director of Sage Steppe Wild On episode 76 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—host Josh Schlossberg gets litigious with Jonathan Ratner, Director of Sage Steppe Wild, as they challenge The Nature Conservancy’s schemes to log and graze public lands and whether the billion-dollar entity should still…
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A few weeks back, I ran across a press release from The Nature Conservancy about partnering with the Bridger Teton National Forest in Wyoming for “forest restoration”, the current euphemism for logging. I sent a FOIA to the Bridger Teton to see what was going on and got back two national-level MOU’s agreeing to help…
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Last week I published an article about Sage Steppe Wild winning a stay against the Nature Conservancy’s authorization to bulldoze 13 new reservoirs to water the TNC’s cattle in the Indian Creek area of the Bear’s Ears National Monument. A lot of readers were pretty disgusted with the TNC. Well, I thought if you fall…
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The Wyoming MAGA contingent that now controls the full legislature introduced House Bill 0286, a proposed bill that would strip critical protections for cougars in Wyoming. HB 0286 proposes the following changes: ● Elimination of hunting zones and geographic boundaries for cougars.● Removal of statewide and local mortality limits, allowing unrestricted killing of cougars at…