Liberal Ginsburg backed a Wyo ranch owner who sued the feds
The late Supreme Court justice wanted a Hot Springs County rancher’s suit over alleged government harassment to go to trial. She lost, but penned a dissent that bears a review.
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Stewardship pact gives Wyo more say on national forests
Agreement with federal agency calls for state role in ‘active management’ to combat fire threats, invasive weeds, but critics see it as a plan for more logging and industrial agriculture.
Grizzly CSI: Cutting to facts in a predator-livestock whodunit
Up near the Continental Divide, cowboys call Zach Turnbull when they find dead stock. It’s his job, through all the guts and gore, to determine if an animal was killed by wildlife and is thus eligible for damage compensation from the state.
Judge: No evidence of ‘certain and great harm’ to grizzlies
D.C. court won't stop grizzly removals on the Upper Green River while grazing lawsuit wends its way through court.
Scientists: Reworked BLM plan still fails to protect sage grouse
Agency’s preferred alternatives don’t account for four-year population slide, wildfire risks or landscape-scale coordination as the BLM aligns federal conservation plans with states’, experts charge. Others back the federal plan.
