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George Wuerthner, author & Exec. Dir. of Public Lands Media, to talk about the impacts of the livestock industry on the West (Wed., 11/1/17 on Wild Horse & Burro Radio)
November 1, 2017
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Big Cattle, Big Gulp: Cowboys and cows are soaking the American West dry
October 29, 2017
BLM corruption, FARMING & FOOD, WATER BLM, Christopher Ketcham, drought, Foundation for Deep Ecology, George Wuerthner, Jon Marvel, livestock grazing, public lands, regulatory capture, water, Western Watersheds Project Leave a comment
Source: New Republic
“Every stream on public lands grazed by livestock is polluted and shows a huge surge in E. coli bacterial contamination during the grazing season,” says Marvel. “No wonder we can’t drink the water.”
Marvel, who retired from WWP last year, spent two decades haranguing and suing the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the government bodies that are supposed to regulate ranching on the public domain. “Forest Service and BLM staffers see their job as the protection and enabling of ranchers. They are the epitome of what is meant by agency capture.”
by Christopher Ketcham More
The PPJ Gazette 