Debate follows the decision to transfer three wildlife ranges — the Kofa Game Range in Arizona, the Charles Sheldon Antelope Range in Nevada, and the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Range in Montana — to sole management by the Bureau of Land Management, after years of dual management with the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Charlie Scott: from Wyoming to Washington D.C. (and back again)
Charlie Scott, a rancher south of Casper Mountain in Wyoming, challenged himself as a bureaucrat in Washington D.C. for five years, but is pleased to be back in the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.12/download-entire-issue
Game range transfer threat to wildlife?
Debate follows the decision to transfer three wildlife ranges — the Kofa Game Range in Arizona, the Charles Sheldon Antelope Range in Nevada, and the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Range in Montana — to sole management by the Bureau of Land Management, after years of dual management with the Fish and Wildlife Service. Download…
Who owns the West’s water?
Tight competition for water in the West is forcing the U.S. government to assert its rights under the federal water reservation doctrine, which maintains that the federal government reserved all the water necessary to operate Indian reservations, national forests, national parks, and oil reserves. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.12/download-entire-issue