Senator presses BLM on vacant grazing land in Washington

by PEER | September 13, 2023
“I can’t imagine that out of 40,000 acres there isn’t a sizable percentage that BLM couldn’t work with farmers and ranchers in the area to lease,” Schoesler said. Environmental organizations are looking to reduce grazing on BLM land. Western Watersheds Project ...

Guest column: The Bureau of Land Management is ignoring its most serious land-health problem

by PEER | September 8, 2023
In a recent opinion piece, Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning claims her agency has a renewed focus on land health. However, she fails to make even a single mention of the most pervasive land-health problem the agency faces: livestock-caused ecological destruction ...

US government is funding kills of endangered animals, activists say | Focusing on Wildlife

by PEER |
In a statement to the Guardian, the interior department claimed federal money is not used for the kills. Spokesperson Melissa Schwartz said the allegation that the department funded state kills was “wildly inaccurate”. But the coalition said the interior department’s statement is ...

PEERMail | The Chilling Fight Behind Climate Change

by PEER | September 6, 2023
The ability to cool our spaces has been one of humankind's great achievements but it's come at great cost to the atmosphere and overall climate health ...
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