[ RangeBiome ]

A Cowfree 21st Century
This page was last updated on June 18, 2008 .

This page is dedicated to the proposition that the commercial production of domestic livestock is no longer an appropriate use of the public lands that make up America's Natural Heritage. Articles, papers, links, and other information in support of A Cowfree 21st Century for the public lands are posted here. 

Note: The Cowfree Posting Date (cfp) is given where the actual date of the linked material was not readily apparent.

Contents

• Rangeland Exclosures of Northeastern Oregon: Stories They Tell (1936–2004). Charles Grier Johnson, Jr. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-724. August 2007
• Updating the Animal Unit Month. John G. Carter. Revised March 17, 2008.
• Dutch Henry Falls, Moses Coulee, Washington. A nature preserve owned by The Nature Conservancy. April, 2007.
  RealPlayer     Google/Flash     MySpace/Flash     Photo Essay
• Pintler Creek Unit, Joseph Creek Wildlife Area, Washington. April 2007.
  RealPlayer   Google/Flash   Photo index with Narrative    Slides
• Desert or Pasture? Cattle and the American Southwest. A 2002 documentary by Sierra Club and Center for Biological Diversity.     RealPlayer     Media Player     Google/Flash
  
• Western Turf Wars: The Politics of Public Lands Ranching By Mike Hudak
  • Under the hood of public rangeland management: a book review of "Western Turf Wars"
• The report is in: Cattle are the biggest source of global warming, producing more greenhouse gases than cars!
  • Livestock’s long shadow: Environmental issues and options. By H. Steinfeld, P. Gerber, T. Wassenaar, V. Castel, M. Rosales, C. de Haan - 2006, 390 pp. A FAO report
• Watershed Conditions: Uinta Wilderness, Utah (West Fork Black’s Fork, East Fork Black’s Fork, Lake Fork. Middle Fork Beaver Creek, Burnt Fork).  Dr. John Carter. October 30, 2006
  • Appendix 1 (maps)
  • Appendix 2 (photos)
  • Appendix 3 (data)

• Watershed Conditions: Uinta Wilderness, Utah (West Fork Black’s Fork, East Fork Black’s Fork, Lake Fork. Middle Fork Beaver Creek, Burnt Fork).  Dr. John Carter. October 30, 2006

• You've Come a Long Way, Cowboy: Ten Truths & Trends in the New American West. Sonoran Institute. September 29, 2006

• Western Public Lands Grazing: The True Costs - A slideshow of grazing issues and impacts. Sierra Club. 2006

• Videos by Mike Hudak: During 2003 and 2004 Mike Hudak interviewed grassroots activists and former government personnel about the management of livestock on public lands in the United States. The videos are based on those interviews

  • Holistic Management of Rangelands—Consequences for Avian Species. Clait E. Braun
  • Incredibly Low Grazing Fees On Federal Public Lands. Len Carpenter
  • Governmental Inflexibility of Managing Grazing During Drought. Len Carpenter
  • The Future of Ranching on Western Public Lands. Patrick Diehl
  • Cattle Removal Allows Bruneau River’s Environmental Recovery. Bob Phillips
  • Land Management Deficiencies of the U.S. Forest Service. Ray Neiwert
  • Pro-Ranching Social Pressure on Forest Service Employees. Bill Worf
  • Changes by G. W. Bush Administration in BLM Management Martha Hahn
  • Political Interference at BLM Results in Unsound Grazing Management Doug Troutman
  • Political Pressure on Forest Service Employees Don Oman
  • Animal Damage Control. Renee Galeano-Popp
  • Livestock Grazing Damages Pine Creek Basin. Bill Worf
  • Holistic Resource Management. Steve Gallizioli
  • The Gunnison Basin Gunnison Sage-Grouse Working Group. Clait E. Braun
  • Cattle Grazing Disrupts Natural Fire in Western Forests. Leon Fager
  • Livestock’s Role in Spreading Weeds and Pinion-Juniper. Steve Monsen
  • Livestock Grazing at Trout Creek (Sawtooth National Forest, ID). Don Oman
  • BLM's Management of Livestock. Doug Troutman
  • Livestock Grazing in the Black Hills. Charmaine White Face (Zumila Wobaga)
  • The Economics of Public Lands Ranching. Doug Barber
  • Interaction of Cattle and Burned Rangeland. Jim Prunty
  • The Campaign to Protect the Golden Trout Wilderness, Todd Shuman
  • Forest Service Politics, Renee Galeano-Popp
  •  The Influence of Idaho Watersheds Project on BLM, Martha Hahn
  •  Politics in Public Lands Management, Steve Gallizioli
  • The Montana Conflict Between Cattle and Bison, Ralph Maughan
  • Livestock Management on the Twin Falls Ranger District, Don Oman
  • Genesis of RangeNet, Larry Walker (Google/Flash version)
  • Soil Erosion at South Parker Creek, Bill Worf

• Do Cows Matter? Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge: Before and After. Dr. Steven G. Herman. 2004

• A Cautionary Tale: Rogue ranchers threaten Western trout water. Ted Williams. June 2006 (in Fly Rod & Reel Magazine)

• Sacred Cows. Ted Williams. March, 2006 (in Audubon)

• Free High Resolution Public Domain Images from RangeBiome.org

• Wasting the West: How Welfare Ranchers and Their Livestock Are Damaging Public Land. emagazine.com

• Investigation into the Decline of Populations of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus Ridgway) in Southeastern New Mexico. John Loy Hunt. December 17, 2005

• Progress Report: Grazing Effects Monitoring in the Golden Trout Wilderness. Hugh Safford March 22, 2005 (PDF) 

• Sagebrush: A Sea Fragmented into Lakes, Ponds, and Puddles. Bruce Welch. 2005

• Livestock Exclusion and Below Ground Ecosystem Responses in Riparian Meadows of Eastern Oregon.  Kauffman et.al., 2004 

• Before & After Grazing: A Diorama (includes high resolution images suitable for downloading to print posters). Maricopa Audubon Society

• BLM Grazing Program Evaluation: Oregon & Washington - 1989

• The Gallizioli Papers (Posted Nov. 2004)

  • Effects of Livestock Grazing on Wildlife. by Steve Gallizioli, February 3, 1979
  • Overgrazing on Desert Bighorn Ranges. by Steve Gallizioli, 1977 (PDF)
  • Overgrazing: More Deadly Than Any Hunter   By Steve Gallizioli, October 1977
  • Impacts of Livestock on Southwestern Wildlife. by Steve Gallizioli, March 13, 1977
  • Livestock vs. Wildlife. by Steve Gallizioli, March 1976

• GRAZING OUT OF CONTROL Failed Grazing Management on the National Forests of New Mexico and Arizona, 1999-2003. Forest Guardians. November 2004. (PDF)

• South Warner Wilderness. by Bill Worf. (July 29, 2001)

• Commercial Livestock Grazing in Grand Teton National Park. by Robin Smith (June 2004)

• Grazing Use On Public Lands in Owyhee County, Idaho Ada County Fish and Game League And Idaho Bird Hunters (April 2004) (PDF)

• Riparian Songbird Abundance a Decade After Cattle Removal on Hart Mountain and Sheldon National Wildlife Refuges. PSW-GTR-191. 2004. (final proof)

• Core Sampling of Selected High Cold Desert Region Wetlands in the Sweetwater River Drainage. Raymond V. Corning, August 28, 2002

• OUR Western Public Lands (video collection: online, CD/DVD, cable TV))

• "Cowzilla and the Wild Things" (RealVideo 8 minutes) [Dial-up] [Broadband] (November, 2003)

• Radical Self-Lobotomy, Larry Walker, September 29, 2003

• Kent's Open Range Archive

• There is No Federal "Open Range" 8/31/03

• Ecological effects of ranching: A six-point critique. BioScience (August, 2003)

• Economic Value of Golden Trout Fishing in the Golden Trout Wilderness, California. A Report for California Trout. March 21, 2003

• Livestock Grazing and the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan: A Conservation Perspective. Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection. May 2001

• Impacts of nineteenth century grazing at Capitol Reef National Park as determined through packrat midden analysis. Great Basin Naturalist. 1997

• Livestock, Degraded Ecosystems and Biodiversity. by John Carter for Western Watersheds Project. November 15, 2002

• Dislodging the Sacred Cow: Tools to Fight Ranching. Forest Guardians

  • Dislodging the Sacred Cow: A summary of ongoing and past litigation. Forest Guardians

• Response of Vegetation and Breeding Birds to the Removal of Cattle on the San Pedro River, Arizona (U.S.A.). David Krueper, Jonathan Bart, and Terrell D. Rich. Conservation Biology, Pages 607–615, Volume 17, No. 2, April 2003

• The Delicate Balance of Dragonflies Watersheds Messenger, Spring 2003

• Trouble in Paradise: Livestock Grazing in Hawaii Watersheds Messenger, Spring 2003

• ONDA submits comments on proposed rulemaking for BLM's grazing administration regulations. April 16, 2003

• ONDA submits comments on the Crooked River National Grasslands Vegetation and Livestock Grazing plan. March 5, 2003

• The Cry of the Wolf in the West Watersheds Messenger, Spring 2003

• Seeps, Springs and Riparian Zones of Selected Public Land Regions, Volume 4 Post Season Grazing Report: A Fourth Year Update Cassia, Oneida, Power, and Twin Falls Counties, Idaho. Western Watersheds Project, 2002

• Survey Of Middle Fork Beaver Creek and West Fork Blacks Fork: Uinta Wilderness, Utah. Dr. John Carter, 7/8/02

• Livestock Grazing Contributes to Fire Hazard Watersheds Messenger, Summer 2002

• Economics 101: Ranching is a Losing Proposition Watersheds Messenger, Summer 2002

• The Truth About Land Use in the United States Watersheds Messenger, Summer 2002

• Subsidized Federal Grazing Won't Prevent Sprawl Watersheds Messenger, Summer 2002

• Home on the Holistic Range Watersheds Messenger, Summer 2002

• Public Lands Ranching: Welfare State in the West.  Watersheds Messenger, Spring 2002

• Biological Treasures of Mount Harrison Live on the Edge Watersheds Messenger, Spring 2002

• Watershed Restoration Requires Beaver Restoration Watersheds Messenger, Spring 2002

• Saving the Sagebrush Steppe from Our Footprints Watersheds Messenger, Spring 2002

• Co-Opted by Cowboys Watersheds Messenger, Winter 2001

• Our Mismanged Public Lands Watersheds Messenger, Winter 2001

• Bison, Not Cattle, Belong in the West. Watersheds Messenger, Summer 2001

• Camping (and Coping) With cow Poop. Watersheds Messenger, Summer 2001

• Defining the Management of Our Public Lands Watersheds Messenger, Summer 2001

• Public Lands Ranching: What Price Obstinence? Watersheds Messenger, Summer 2001

• Livestock Spoil the Native Diversity on America's Public Lands. Watersheds Messenger, Fall, 2001

• Ranchers to Public-Lands Managers: See No Evil, Speak No Evil. Watersheds Messenger, Fall, 2001

• Notes from the Understory: Monitoring Idaho's Public Lands. Watersheds Messenger, Fall, 2001

• Plants in Peril: Hard Times for Blue Elderberries. Watersheds Messenger, Fall, 2001

• A Range is Not a Home Where Yellowstone's Buffalo Roam. Watersheds Messenger, Fall, 2001

• A Cow Battlefield on the Big Lost. Watersheds Messenger, Fall, 2000

• Our Public Lands Dressed in Brown. Watersheds Messenger, Fall 2000

• Citizen Groups Sue Forest Service Over Grazing Fee. February 25, 2003

  • The Forest Service Western Grazing Fee: Frequently Asked Questions

• Cattle grazing and the loss of biodiversity in the East Bay. 2003

  • EBRPD Grazing Policy Violations Report. January 20, 2003

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• Livestock Grazing and the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan. May 2001

• Livestock Threat to Aplomados (PDF) from Forest Guardians Critical Habitat Petition, 9/30/02

• THE DONUT DIET: The Too-Good-to-Be-True Claims of Holistic Management. George Wuerthner. cfp 1/6/03

• The Current Status of Soil Structure Degradation in Queensland Cropping Soils. D. McGarry, G. Sharp, S.G. Bray. 1999

• Grazing Intensity and the Diversity of Grasshoppers, Butterflies and Trap-Nesting Bees and Wasps. Andreas Kruess and Teja Tscharntke. 2002

• Ranchers in the West should call it quits. Arizona Daily Sun, 12/08/02

• Study Finds Full Cost of Federal Grazing Program May Exceed $500 Million October 2002

  • Assessing the Full Cost of the federal Grazing Program (PDF)

• Public Lands Ranchers: Heading for the Last Roundup? VegNews, October 2002

• Voluntary Buyout Proposed to 26,000 Public Lands Ranchers Watersheds Messenger, Summer 2002

  • Hooved Locusts and Bovine Bulldozers: An Ecologist's View of Public Lands in the West

  • Economics 101: Ranching is a Losing Proposition

  • Welfare Ranching Set for September Publication

  • Subsidized Federal Grazing Won't Prevent Sprawl

  • Livestock Grazing Contributes to Fire Hazard

  • Home on the Holistic Range

• "NATIVE GRASSLAND HEALTH, USE, and LACK OF SCIENCE CONCERNING LIVESTOCK INTERACTIONS: An example from BLM California", 74 reasons why BLM's environmental grazing documents are inadequate. Craig Dremann, Spring 1998

• Environmental Protections Being Gutted by Ranchers' Allies in Congress. Martin Taylor, 7/26/02

• Grazing Administration Responsibilities on the Santa Fe National Forest (internal letter by David M. Stewart, Director of Rangeland Management, Southwestern Region, USDA Forest Service. June 2002)

• Public Rangelands Without Cows? Rangelands, August 2000  

• "Safe for Cows" and other Excerpts from the Works of Aldo Leopold (cfp 6/16/02)

• Do No Harm. Larry Walker 6/7/02

• Public Lands Ranching: Welfare State in the West. Watersheds Messenger, Spring 2002

• Stewardship or Rhetoric? Kirsten Stade, 4/22/02

• Impact of Grazing on 153 Species of Southwestern Birds. Larry Walker April 2002

• Cryptobiotic Crust in the Sonoran Desert

• An educational tool about cattle grazing. The Cactus Wren-dition, Spring 2002

• RangeNet's Photo Album of Western Public Lands Grazing. 8 new "pages" added, Jan-Mar, 2002

• Papers by Raymond V. Corning (March, 2002) 

  • Diminished Sweetwater River Flows From the High Cold Desert Region of Wyoming (February 13, 2002) now in HTML & PDF

  • The linked Stream Stressors - Water Fluctuation, Sedimentation, and Erosion 

• An Assault on Biodiversity in the Name of Wildlands & Habitat Preservation Greg Schneider. February 25, 2002

• Maintaining Bovine Readiness at Fort Hood: Clearing the Way for Cattle on Texas Public Lands. The Touchstone. Nov/Dec 2001

• National Public Lands Grazing Campaign

• Conservation Management of America's Public Lands: An Assessment and Recommendations for Progress 25 Years After FLPMA

• Sierra Club Glen Canyon Group Calls for End to Public Lands Ranching in Seven Southern Utah Counties. press release. 8/23/01

• Agents of Change: Cattle and Sheep Grazing. CP-LUHNA. 12/13/2000

• The Internalization of Degraded Streams as Normal. Suzanne C. Fouty. cfp:7/2/01

• Our Federal Public Lands: Wildlife Habitat or Cattle Pasture? Satya, June 2001 (917 words)

• BLM Grazing Statistics: 1947 - 2000. Western Watersheds Project, Inc. June 2001

• Our public lands: Wildlife habitat or cattle pasture? Mike Hudak. Spring 2001 (499 words)

• Livestock Grazing Has Nearly Destroyed Western Arid Lands. John Carter. 6/1/01.

• Topsoil and Civilization. Tom Dale & Vernon Gill Carter. 1955

• Sage Grouse Strut Their Stuff. Smithsonian Magazine. June 2001

• What is killing Montana's fish and polluting your water supply? Livestock Overgrazing Riparian Areas. Stephen Butt, updated April 2001

• Where the buffalo roam, again: Humans are disappearing from Great Plains as bison and other wildlife return San Francisco Chronicle, 4/22/01

• Seventy of Arizona's 116 State Threatened or Endangered Species Have Cattle Grazing as a Causal Factor in Their Imperilment. Robert Witzeman, March 2001

• Extreme Pleasures of East Bay Regional Cow Parks. Greg Schneider, March 2001

• Yellowstone: Held hostage by cheeseburgers. Bruce Gourley, 2001

• Our Federal Public Lands: For ranchers or wildlife? Mike Hudak, March 2001

• Statement from George Wuerthner Concerning the Arguments in opposition to the End Commercial Livestock Grazing Initiative. George Wuerthner, 3/19/01 

• End Commercial Grazing on Federal Public Land -- An Argument. Todd Shuman, March 2001

• Save Our Public Lands - End Public Lands Grazing: A Declaration from the RangeNet 2000 Symposium

  • Reno Grazing Conference Launches National Campaign to End Public Lands Grazing

• Why the Sierra Club Should Adopt a Policy Opposing Commercial Livestock Grazing on Public Lands. Canyon Echo, May-June, 2000

• The Bureau of Land Management Has Failed to Implement the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of October 21, 1976: in "An Open Letter to the Sierra Club Board of Directors in support of a "Zero-Cud" Conservation Policy", Larry Walker, July 16, 1999

• Commercial Livestock Production on Federal Public Lands: Environmental Destruction at Taxpayer Expense. by Mike Hudak, June 29, 2000

• Livestock Industry Myths. George Wuerthner, 1999

• Review and Analysis of Cattle Grazing Effects in the Arid West, With Implications for BLM Grazing Management in Southern Utah. Allison Jones. February, 2001 

• Cows 'R' Us, Mooing Into the Millennium. Jon Marvel. 4/19/2000