Livestock were blamed for roughly two-thirds of the nearly 57 million acres that failed to meet environmental standards. But less than a million failing acres were attributed to wild horses and burros alone. Another 6.5 million failed due to a combination of cattle and horses.
As an Oregon native; outdoor industry business owner; former municipal and BLM-wildland firefighter; public land user and volunteer; citizen scientist; and former lands conservation director, board member and coordinator of
Wyoming joined 18 other states, led by Alabama, in a lawsuit accusing five states — California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey and Rhode Island — of “imposing ruinous liability and coercive
A coalition of groups are criticizing plans for managing about 4 million acres of national forest lands in Idaho and Montana. Conservation groups in the region, as well as the Nez Perce Tribe, have submitted their objections to the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests Land Management Plan from the U.S. Forest Service. .