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Pinyon-Juniper Forests: BLM is a Ranching Industry Tool

Pinyon-Juniper Forests: BLM is a Ranching Industry Tool

Feb 1, 2016 | Essays, Pinyon-Juniper Forests

Public lands ranching is destroying the Western United States. It has pushed native plant species to the brink of extinction. It causes soil to erode so quickly the land cannot keep up. Livestock are poisoning and depleting water supplies, killing perennial stream...
Pinyon-Juniper Forests: BLM’s False Claims to Virtue

Pinyon-Juniper Forests: BLM’s False Claims to Virtue

Jan 5, 2016 | Essays, Pinyon-Juniper Forests

Once I recovered from the shock I experienced witnessing the carnage produced by a Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) so-called “pinyon-juniper treatment project” just south of Spruce Mountain in Nevada, all I wanted was the destruction to stop. In order to stop the...
Pinyon-Juniper Forests: The Oldest Refugee Crisis

Pinyon-Juniper Forests: The Oldest Refugee Crisis

Dec 12, 2015 | Essays, Pinyon-Juniper Forests

After moving too fast for too long, I seek stillness in warm sun leaning against a wizened, uprooted trunk of a pinyon pine in Cave Valley, Nevada. My thoughts race with yesterday. My friend Max Wilbert and I left Park City, Utah in the pre-dawn bitter cold crossing...
Pinyon-Juniper Forests: An Ancient Vision Disturbed

Pinyon-Juniper Forests: An Ancient Vision Disturbed

Nov 30, 2015 | Essays, Pinyon-Juniper Forests

Standing in a pinyon-juniper forest on a high slope above Cave Valley not far from Ely, Nevada, I am lost in an ancient vision. It is a vision born under sublime skies stretching above wide, flat valleys bounded by the dramatic mountains of the Great Basin. The vision...
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