Wyoming

The Interior Department may see more lawsuits after announcing it would no longer require the Bureau of Land Management to create an environmental impact statement for more than 3,200 oil and gas leases in seven states. The Biden administration started work on the review four days before President Trump took office in January...

Last week, Idaho senators passed House Joint Memorial 4 which asks the federal government to remove the grizzly bear from the Endangered Species List.  The Memorial, which already cleared the House, says grizzly bears have reached recovery goals in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, and those elevated population numbers have led to conflicts between bears and both humans and other animals alike.     Fol

Idaho senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo joined Nebraska’s Pete Ricketts Thursday in introducing the Securing American Agriculture Act.  They say the bill would secure critical agricultural supply chains and reduce America’s reliance on foreign adversaries like China.   “Allowing Communist China to seize control...

Last week, Idaho senator Jim Risch and Wyoming senator John Barrasso introduced the Resiliency for Ranching and Natural Conservation Health (RANCH) Act.  They say the legislation promotes resilient and healthy rangelands and effective grazing management across the West.  The RANCH Ac...

University of Idaho Extension is accepting in-state applications for two USDA grants supporting post-production work by small- and mid-sized food and farm businesses.  Business Builder grants are offered through the Northwest and Rocky Mountain Food Business Center designed for business, market and supply-chain development projects aimed at “increasing business viability, developing regional marke

  On Wednesday, California Representative Doug LaMalfa, Chairman on the Congressional Western Caucus, announced Executive Committee Members for the 119th Congress, which included Oregon’s Cliff Bentz.    "As a Congressman from the state of Oregon, I am committed to addressing the challenges and advancing the opportunities we face every day in the West," Bentz noted.  "As Vice Chairs

On Thursday, Idaho Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch demanded the Biden administration stop any eleventh-hour attempts to breach the lower Snake River dams.   “The incoming administration should be allowed the time and opportunity to carefully review and shape the management of the Columbia River System, including the lower Snake River dams.  The rive...

A new collaborative study from Envu and the United States Geological Survey shows the impact of annual grass invasion on soil carbon loss in American rangelands.   “What they found was during this very exhaustive study that when an ecosystem converts to an annual grass monoculture or an annual grass ecosystem, if you will, we lose up to 49% of the carbon, which could equal 75 metric tons per acre

According to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, two mule deer shot and killed in Wyoming and then illegally transported into Oregon, have tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease.  As of Thursday, October 24th, CWD has not been found in any wild deer or elk in Oregon.  ...

Much of the Northwest already knows this, but now the numbers just prove those thoughts.  Soil moisture levels across the western portion of the U.S. remain very low, even for this time of year.  Nationally, 62% of the country is dealing with soil moisture numbers that are very short to short.  The top state, wh...