Category: Public Lands

M-44s, which use deadly sodium cyanide to kill wildlife carnivores on behalf of the livestock industry, are notorious for also felling lots of "non-target" animals, imperiled species and pet dogs. After being banned from BLM lands, the Trump Administration appears poised to bring them back
Dorothy Bradley and Doug James pen a lyrical poem, inspired partly by rap, that's intended to get citizens of their state to refocus on coming together instead of being defined by petty division. Paintings by Robert Spannring
Painter Barbara Rusmore opens a show of new and selected old works. For the Bozeman conservationist and member of the Montana Outdoor Hall of Fame, beauty has fueled her fire for preservation
Need inspiration?  As a special feature of NRCC’s daylong Conservation Symposium, 20 different short “QuickTalks” highlight good work being done around Greater Yellowstone in meeting challenges. And from afar you can tune in via live-stream
Ecologist Andrew Boyce-Pero is giving a talk on ongoing efforts to restore prairie biodiversity as part of the Gallatin Valley Earth Day speaker series. You can enjoy his presentation April 8 from the comfort of your own living room
It didn't happen by accident or fluke. Giving safeguards to national forest roadless lands followed decades of battles between industry that was felling trees at an unsustainable rate and conservationists seeing the best secure habitat for fish and wildlife being lost to "multiple use" management
Ground Shift? Adam Bronstein says in this age of extinction and accelerating habitat loss, we need a new model for landscapes in the West and the communities that rely on them—not the status quo repackaged in new rhetoric
In his latest take on current events, cartoonist John Potter has a message for Congressman Ryan Zinke, who's trying to pass himself off as a modern Teddy Roosevelt. "Everyone sees what you're doing."
Unbelievably, we are not making this up. Read the press release issued by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on how unprecedented natural resource extraction will "Make America Beautiful Again" in a new "Golden Age"
Even amid the battle cry of keeping American "public lands in public hands," free market influencers are at work pushing to privatize the assets of those lands only to let future generations deal with the unwanted consequences