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ODFWState fish and wildlife officials authorized the killing of six gray wolves in eastern Oregon during the past six weeks, bringing relief to ranchers who lost livestock to the wolves and anger to conservationists who see the killings as inhumane and ineffective. -
Photo courtesy of Angie Nash.During spring’s prime calving season, lots of newborn calves have been dying from the cold.
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As in many arguments, opposing sides don’t always speak the same language. Such is the controversy of wolf management in the West, which is why new research found it’s important to clarify what people mean when they talk about managing the predators. -
The penalty is the maximum the ranchers — who pumped Shasta River water for eight days — could face under state law. It amounts to about $50 per rancher, which is no deterrent, ranchers and officials agree.
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A standoff over shutting down ranchers’ pumps signals a flareup of water wars as California is gripped by seemingly endless drought. “To hell with it. We’re starting the pumps,” one Siskiyou County rancher said.
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The larger breeds don’t necessarily fight wolves, but they do help alert ranchers to predators lurking nearby
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In Malheur County’s Cow Valley, state regulators have ignored known issues with overpumping groundwater, leaving the region at risk of economic and ecological damage that will be difficult to reverse.
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Seven cattle have been found mutilated over the last three months in Crook County and the sheriff’s office is actively investigating and hoping for a break in the case. This follows several recent cases in the past few years in rural Oregon.
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Shasta Big Springs Ranch in Siskiyou County is one of the few places in the country where salmon spawned in a stream right next to cows. So there was…
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Do you even know what your grandparents did for a living? Bill Nicholson does, because he does it too. He is the third generation of his family to farm…
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The armed takeover at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge over the winter was not the first of its kind, and it probably will not be the last.…
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Not everybody in California can ever brag about bringing home a GEELA. Fewer still can say they won it twice, but Prather Ranch's owners can. GEELA is the…
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With the armed occupation of a wildlife refuge ongoing in eastern Oregon, there’s been renewed attention on ranchers’ discontent with federal grazing…
