“It’s ridiculous to keep moving wolves back south of Interstate 40 when wolves have clearly decided there’s great habitat to the north of the highway,” said Greta Anderson, deputy director of Western Watersheds Project.

The BLM is defying a court order halting the massive Converse County Oil & Gas Project in WY—quietly approving new wells without public input or sound science. We’re back in court to stop this illegal drilling spree. westernwatersheds.org/2025/11/comm...

In Catron County, New Mexico, emails from the president of the state’s cattle growers’ association to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reveal just how far the livestock lobby will go to assert dominance over public policy and the wild. westernwatersheds.substack.com/p/public-rec...

The Senate could take up FOFA any day now. If it passes, it will roll back decades of environmental safeguards under NEPA and the Endangered Species Act, gut judicial review, and entrench corporate management of public lands for a generation. substack.com/home/post/p-...

CALLING ALL FED'L WORKERS! Join EPN, PEER, and GAP for a crucial 90-min webinar. They’ll cover the rights of whistleblowers and practical tools for confidential and responsible communication. The session will conclude with a live Q&A to address questions. 11/6 @ 6 EST. RSVP: tinyurl.com/fedlworkers

More than 450 former NPS employees, including two past directors of the agency and more than 90 former park superintendents, last week urged Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to close all the national parks until the government reopens.

Adam Bronstein with the Western Watersheds Project said the government is supposed to balance protections for species like elk and deer and threatened or endangered animals. Opening up vacant lands could damage habitat and ecosystems for wildlife, he said. www.opb.org/article/2025...

In a historic act of justice and renewal, the Tule River Indian Tribe of California has reclaimed over 17,000 acres of their ancestral homelands in the Sierra Nevada foothills -- the largest land return in the region’s history.

A new federal “Beef Industry Plan” reveals how the administration intends to expand grazing, weaken oversight, and lock in subsidies that keep cattle on failing western public lands.

"If we’re lucky, a family of beavers will come along and make this analogue their home, even tearing out our handiwork to construct something they like better that’s more permanent and sturdier. Beavers are, after all, professional furry engineers, who perfected their craft over millennia."

The worldview that carved presidents into the Black Hills still defines how we treat public lands—who profits from them, who is displaced, and what stories are allowed to endure.

“This administration is doubling down and making sure that America’s precious western public lands operate as a below-cost feedlot for special interest groups,” Josh Osher, public policy director with Western Watersheds Project.

Just one ranch in Washington is responsible for more than 70% of the state’s wolf kills. And the majority of the ranch’s cows? According to the USFS, they shouldn’t even be grazing there. westernwatersheds.substack.com/p/a-closer-l...

A USGS & NPS study finds each Yellowstone grizzly generates about $46,000 a year in local economic value from wildlife viewing alone. Proof that wild nature pays its own way — and that every bear is worth far more alive than dead. unofficialnetworks.com/2025/10/24/y...

Before and during the government shutdown, the Trump administration has pushed an agenda to sell out America’s public lands for drilling and mining while gutting the funding, staff, and policies necessary to steward those lands for future generations. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

“It's a wasteful policy handout to the very small fraction of ranchers who benefit from public lands leases, to the detriment of everyone else in our state who depends on public lands for clean air and water, wildlife, outdoor recreation, and quality of life."

This week, the USDA released a plan to “Fortify the American Beef Industry” — but what it really does is fortify the livestock industry’s grip on our public lands.

The Interior Department revealed Monday that it plans to eliminate more than 2,000 jobs, including major reductions to the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Geological Survey and the Office of the Secretary, according to newly filed court documents.

TOMORROW: Join conservation groups or a webinar about public lands grazing to answer the questions: how can conservationists best advocate for protecting our public lands from harm caused by livestock grazing? What successes can we learn from? RSVP: us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../W...

We just intervened to stop a reckless new lawsuit from anti-wolf politicians demanding even more killing. Wolves already face a 458-wolf quota this season—now extremists want more. westernwatersheds.org/2025/10/grou...

BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear Iron Bar Holdings v. Cape, leaving intact the ruling affirming the legality of public land corner crossing.

"We're not saying, ‘Oh, we ought to let our cattle live by any means necessary," Stewart explained. "It's actually the opposite. The bears have every right to be here just as much as we do." cowboystatedaily.com/2025/10/18/g...

BREAKING: Rep. Adam Smith today introduced the Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act (VGPRA), legislation to expand the successful model of voluntary federal grazing permit retirement across the West. Act Now: westernwatersheds.org/actionalerts...

More grizzly bears are dying in the Yellowstone area. That should be a wake-up call.

By confirming Idaho billionaire Michael Boren to oversee the U.S. Forest Service, the Senate has placed public lands in the hands of a man who has repeatedly violated the laws meant to protect.

NEW data finds that the government shutdown has furloughed 29,000 employees at public land agencies, nearly half the current workforce, impacting nearly every corner of the U.S.

Less than half the normal amount of water flowed into Lake Powell from the Upper Basin states — Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — this summer. coloradosun.com/2025/10/10/f...

The new research couldn’t be clearer: Wolves are not bold, not fearless, and not a public threat. They are cautious, intelligent survivors responding to the single most dangerous predator in the world—us. westernwatersheds.substack.com/p/the-fear-m...

In a land that celebrates the colonizer, the usurper, the destroyer, our organization is dedicated to the proposition that humanity can coexist with nature instead of throttling it. And we salute the decades of successful efforts of one of the leading – and one of the only – regenerative ranchers.

Over 250M acres of public lands are leased for livestock grazing—driving habitat loss, water pollution, and wildlife decline. New rollbacks could make it worse. Join the Oct 22 webinar with WWP, ONDA & Advocates for the West to discuss solutions. Register: bit.ly/4nHE9MD

This senate bill would open all federal land within 100 miles of both international borders to roads, bridges, surveillance, and more in the name of homeland security. Sportsmen's groups say the bill, which is sponsored by just one politician from a border state, would 'defile' the Wilderness Act.

As federal agencies go dark, the livestock industry keeps running the range — and the public must step up as watchdogs. Luckily, we have a way for you to keep them accountable. westernwatersheds.substack.com/p/when-the-w...

Reps. Paul Fielder, R-Thompson Falls, and Shannon Maness, R-Dillon are suing Montana’s Fish and Wildlife Commission, claiming they aren’t doing enough to reduce the state’s wolf population. www.ktvh.com/news/montana...

Americans came together to do it this summer. But greed only has to win once. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

If livestock are inside, it is not by plan but by neglect, or worse, by willful disregard. And if the controls are compromised, the entire Three Creeks experiment loses its credibility, no matter how many millions are spent to prop it up.

Gee, managing your cattle instead of leaving them unattended yields better result for wildlife and bigger profits. Who knew? www.aspentimes.com/news/idahoan...

“They will do anything to avoid admitting that there is tons of cow s***t in our water,” Ratner said. “I’ve collected E. coli data across multiple states over multiple decades, and basically there is no place where cows have access to a waterbody and it does not violate Clean Water Act standards.”

The new policies announced Monday include giving $625 million to utilities to extend the life of aging, coal-fired power plants. Such facilities would likely otherwise close because of the availability of cheaper energy sources. www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/c...

Government funding lapsed early this morning after the Senate rejected Democratic and Republican stopgap bills, casting agency programs, government workers and Congress itself into an uncertain future. www.eenews.net/articles/gov...

Federal wildlife biologists list 63 Yellowstone ecosystem grizzly bear deaths this year, a count that’s ahead of last year’s pace, when the highest number of mortalities on record was documented. wyofile.com/yellowstone-...

The 441-million-ton coal lease that lingered for years for lack of industry interest is now on the selling block. wyofile.com/feds-set-auc...

This week: The hearing of the Public Lands, Forests and Mining Subcommittee will consider more than two dozen public lands, wildfire and mining proposals. www.eenews.net/articles/sen...

On Tuesday, Earthjustice and the Center for Western Priorities said nearly all the 625,737 public comments submitted from Aug. 29 through Sept. 19 were against the Trump administration's plan — including nearly 500,000 signing petitions driven by environmental organizations.

Anti-wolf organizers couldn’t muster the signatures to overturn voter-approved wolf reintroduction, for good reason.

There's not enough water for both Mead and Powell. It's time to remove the Glen Canyon Dam. saltlakemagazine.com/glen-canyon-...

Even though Sanders’ Harriet Ranch has apparently not allowed the government to help with conflict avoidance since January, FWS gave them a permit to go ahead and kill any wolf anyway. Not necessarily the accused wolf. Not even necessarily from the same pack of wolves. Just any wolf who happened by.

A new case study released this month by Grasslands Colorado exposes a crisis hiding in plain sight: the mass recreational killing of prairie dogs on federally managed lands like the Comanche National Grassland. westernwatersheds.substack.com/p/prairie-do...

Members of Congress are trying to bypass science and silence the courts with legislation that would force grizzly delisting—even after courts struck it down—and block any future judicial review. Tell your lawmakers: Vote NO on any delisting effort!l. www.bearsbelong.com/send-a-message

The National Elk Refuge’s proposal to keep feeding elk until chronic wasting disease hits 7% is a recipe for disaster — it’s time to end feedgrounds for good.

This win is a long time coming!