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Bordering on Ridiculous Border-fence plan could wreak havoc on environment		02 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Bordering on Ridiculous Border-fence plan could wreak havoc on environment Congress approved a plan late last week to build a 700-mile-long, two-layer fence along the U.S.-Mexico border in an attempt to keep out illegal immigrants, eliciting an overwhelmingly negative reaction from environmentalists and, well, folks with a firm grasp on reality. "The fence is a knee-jerk r ...
Topics: land degradation, Mexico, news, politics, ranching, Texas, water conflicts (all these topics)

Range of Notion Grass banks aim to protect prairies and help ranchers		11 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Range of Notion Grass banks aim to protect prairies and help ranchers Hoping to preserve both the prairie and the livelihoods of ranchers, green groups like The Nature Conservancy have created "grass banks" by buying up land and allowing ranchers to graze there for cheap. In exchange, ranchers agree to conserve habitat on their own land for ferrets, curlews, and other species. The New Mexico- ...
Topics: land stewardship, Nature Conservancy, news, ranching (all these topics)

We've Got a Beef With That Federal grazing program loses money hand over hoof		01 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
We've Got a Beef With That Federal grazing program loses money hand over hoof Aren't you just sick of welfare queens sucking off the public teat? We're talking, of course, about Western ranchers who graze their cattle on public land. A new analysis from the Government Accountability Office reveals that 10 federal agencies spent $144 million managing the government's grazing program in the last fiscal year, and got back only $21 ...
Topics: news, ranching, wilderness (all these topics)

Ranch Dressing-Down Rancher wins defamation claim against conservation nonprofit		19 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Ranch Dressing-Down Rancher wins defamation claim against conservation nonprofit An Arizona rancher has employed activist tactics to win a lawsuit against a conservation group, and his success may inspire other ranchers to fight back against greens. Jim Chilton took the Center for Biological Diversity to court last year for defamation, after the group posted photos to its website showing destruction on land that Chilton ha ...
Topics: land degradation, news, ranching (all these topics)

Behind Enemy Livestock Ranchers, greens unite to fight oil and gas wells in West		24 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Behind Enemy Livestock Ranchers, greens unite to fight oil and gas wells in West Ranchers and environmentalists have traditionally gone together like chocolate and, uh, people who really hate chocolate. But of late, they have been overlooking past tussles to fight a common enemy: increasingly ubiquitous oil and gas drilling in the Western U.S. The ranchers say the drilling process often sickens or kills livestock ...
Topics: mining and drilling, news, ranching, West (all these topics)

Nun of the Above Nun slain while campaigning against Amazon destruction		17 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Nun of the Above Nun slain while campaigning against Amazon destruction Through heart-rending tragedy, international attention was focused with unusual intensity this week on rainforest destruction in Brazil. Dorothy Stang, an elderly nun working to slow the devastation of the Amazon by organizing locals against the powerful (and largely illegal) logging and ranching operations bent on expanding the ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, logging, news, rainforests, ranching (all these topics)

Court and Spark Bush Nominates Eco-Hostile Lobbyist to Federal Appeals Court		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, mining and drilling, politics, ranching (all these topics)

Meat-Up Low-Carb Diets Have High Impact on Environment		09 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: food and agriculture, health, pollution and waste, ranching, wilderness (all these topics)

Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged		04 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged A coalition of more than 60 environmental, civil-rights, and Native American groups have sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee opposing the confirmation of William G. Myers III to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Before serving as the Interior Department's chief legal offic ...
Topics: Department of Interior, environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, politics, ranching, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Cow-a-Bungle How to Fix Our Food-Inspection System and Find Cleaner, Greener Beef		30 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: education, food and agriculture, health, ranching, Washington (all these topics)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cow Demand Rises for Organic and Natural Beef		12 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cow Demand Rises for Organic and Natural Beef What's bad news for most ranchers may be great news for growers and purveyors of organic and natural-fed beef. In the wake of the discovery of mad cow disease in the U.S., folks who still like to chomp on a nice, juicy steak are increasingly seeking out beef that's been raised the old-fashioned way. To earn the organi ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, health, ranching, United States (all these topics)

In the Flesh On eco-friendly meat	Umbra Fisk	11 Dec 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, While I'm not a vegetarian, I try to choose my foods based on their environmental impact. For me, most non-organic meat doesn't make the cut: It uses too much water, land, and other resources, and it pollutes our land and water. I know this because I know about CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations), which are the sources of the bulk of the chicken, pork, and beef that Americans eat. But what about lamb? I've never s ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food and agriculture, green living, industrial ag, local food, ranching, sustainable ag (all these topics)

The Grazers' Edge Bush Administration Wants to Roll Back Grazing Rules		08 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
The Grazers' Edge Bush Administration Wants to Roll Back Grazing Rules You'd think Bush administration officials might want to spend their Friday afternoons planning happy hours or trying to sneak out of the office early, like normal people, but no: They like to spend their Friday afternoons quietly rolling back environmental protections, hoping that the news will get lost over the weekend. This past Frida ...
Topics: Department of Interior, politics, ranching, West (all these topics)

Amazing Graze Bill to Phase Out Grazing Gets Support from Enviros and Ranchers		09 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Amazing Graze Bill to Phase Out Grazing Gets Support from Enviros and Ranchers Environmentalists and ranchers alike are getting excited about a bill that would have the federal government pay ranchers to give up their rights to graze cattle and sheep on public lands in the West. The legislation, soon to be introduced in Congress by Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.), calls for grazing allotments ...
Topics: business, environmental non-government organizations, ranching (all these topics)

Cow-a-bunga Enviro Coalition Buys Out Large Grazing Permit in Wyoming		04 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Cow-a-bunga Enviro Coalition Buys Out Large Grazing Permit in Wyoming A coalition of conservation groups has agreed to pay $250,000 to a Wyoming rancher to buy out her federal grazing permit, a deal that will keep cattle out of a 137-square-mile area that abuts Grand Teton National Park. The land is home to grizzly bears, wolves, lynx, bald eagles, and numerous other species. This is just the latest incidence ...
Topics: national parks, ranching, wilderness, Wyoming (all these topics)

Grazing a Ruckus		17 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Grazing a Ruckus After years of rancorous fighting, a group of Idaho environmentalists and ranchers are close to agreement on a plan that would give federal wilderness protection to more than 400,000 acres in the Owyhee canyon lands of southern Idaho. The deal would also let ranchers trade grazing leases for parcels of public land and assure ranchers the right to have outside reviews conducted before the feds could reduce the n ...
Topics: Idaho, ranching, wilderness (all these topics)

Dairy, Dairy, Quite Contrary		12 May 2003	Daily Grist
Dairy, Dairy, Quite Contrary Two businessmen want to build a massive cow town in the Mojave Desert in Southern California, providing a home for 90,000 cattle and 600 dairy farmers and their families. Sounds like a recipe for environmental disaster, right? Maybe not: In this case, the plan is to make the development a model of eco-friendly large-scale farming. Meth ...
Topics: California, health, ranching, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Have a Cow, Man		09 May 2003	Daily Grist
Have a Cow, Man The state of South Dakota is leading the nation in the Partners for Fish and Wildlife project, a federal conservation program designed to help farmers and ranchers reduce their negative impact on native prairie ecosystems. Conversion of wild grasslands to croplands is a major environmental problem in South Dakota and other prairies states. Under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife program, farmers and ra ...
Topics: food and agriculture, ranching, South Dakota (all these topics)

Sierras Clubbed		07 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Sierras Clubbed Logging would more than double, more cattle would be allowed to graze, and forests could be aggressively thinned under proposed revisions to a management plan for the Sierra Nevada unveiled yesterday by the U.S. Forest Service. The sweeping changes to the Clinton-era Sierra Nevada Framework would allow timber companies to cut trees up to 30 inches in diameter in old-growth fores ...
Topics: California, Nevada, ranching, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Hamster Dance		27 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Hamster Dance Eight environmental organizations sued the U.S. Forest Service yesterday for failing to increase the fees paid by ranchers to graze livestock on public lands. The groups say that the dramatically below-market rates charged by the USFS cost taxpayers money and lead to damage from overgrazing on 95 million acres of federally owned land. On average, ranchers in the country' ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, ranching, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Don't Cry, Wolf		03 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Don't Cry, Wolf The gray wolf, once nearly wiped out in the Lower 48 states, is flourishing in the northern Rocky Mountains thanks to a federal recovery effort that got underway in 1995 with the reintroduction of 14 Canadian wolves into Yellowstone National Park. Now there are nearly 700 wolves in 41 packs in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, and the feds are on the verge of declaring victory. T ...
Topics: national parks, ranching, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

I Think That I Shall Never See, a Poem As Lovely As a Job?		23 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
I Think That I Shall Never See, a Poem As Lovely As a Job? Nearly half of the Canadian province of British Columbia could be opened to logging and other commercial interests if the provincial government has its way. In an effort to encourage business and stabilize B.C.'s economic base, the government is proposing to set aside 48 percent of the province, or some 45 million hectares, as ...
Topics: Canada, logging, mining and drilling, politics, ranching, wilderness (all these topics)

Range Bedfellows		16 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Range Bedfellows Energy exploration has been part of Western landscape and culture for decades -- but it seems the thrill of the drill may finally be wearing off. As the Bush administration pushes for further exploitation of Western resources (such as coal-bed methane mining in Wyoming and Montana an ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, food and agriculture, mining and drilling, Montana, New Mexico, North America, politics, ranching, renewable energy, West, Wyoming (all these topics)

The Pardners' Tale		15 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
The Pardners' Tale Cowboys and environmentalists unite! The unlikely amigos are banding together to try to keep natural gas drillers away from ranches on public land in the San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado. Yesterday morning, they blocked drilling crews from entering four ranches, arguing that ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, energy, erosion, mining and drilling, New Mexico, politics, ranching, renewable energy (all these topics)

Double-blind Test		18 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Double-blind Test The threat of nuclear war between India and Pakistan seems to have abated slightly -- for the moment -- but what about the consequences of India's nuclear testing? Four years after the country exploded nuclear devices in underground tests in the Thar desert near the Pakistan border, villagers are questioning the government's pat assurance that no radioactivity was released. In Khetolai, ...
Topics: health, India, nuclear power, Pakistan, ranching (all these topics)

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