Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Monday, April 06, 2009
Soda Mountain wilderness could be cow-free
The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument was created by proclamation in the waning days of the Clinton administration in 2000. It was left for a future Congress to better protect it. That happened March 30 when Congress carved out 23,000 acres of the 52,940-acre monument to create the Soda Mountain Wilderness Area, in two sections. It also encourages the retirement of six grazing leases in the monument, if environmental groups come up with the money to purchase them. The monument is manged by the Medford District of the Bureau of Land Management...The Oregonian
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More fires. less edible grasses. more weeds, no wild life just more junky land with nothing on it except BLM'ers wondering where did everything that was beautiful go
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