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Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Forest Service decision to exclude domestic sheep grazing on 70 percent of the allotments in the Payette National Forest! We're celebrating the court's affirmation of one of the best decisions ever made to protect bighorn sheep!
Western Watersheds Project sincerely hopes to see more actions like the Payette Decision: proactive, precautionary closures that ensure native wildlife aren't sickened and killed by someone's profit-on-hooves. Just last month, an entire bighorn herd in Nevada was wiped out after catching pneumonia from domestic sheep, a risk the agency (BLM, in that case) refused to acknowledge, and now it's too late. (see
http://www.thewildlifenews.com/2016/02/19/bighorn-sheep-die-off-in-montana-mountains-nevada-is-it-any-wonder/ )
It isn't just bighorn, either. It's tule elk in California, it's bison in Montana; native wildlife are being sickened, displaced, or killed because of diseases passed to them from domestic livestock. That is wrong and WWP will fight to make it right.
see https://www.westernwatersheds.org/
Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Forest Service decision to exclude domestic sheep grazing on 70 percent of the allotments in the Payette National Forest! We're celebrating the court's affirmation of one of the best decisions ever made to protect bighorn sheep!
Western Watersheds Project sincerely hopes to see more actions like the Payette Decision: proactive, precautionary closures that ensure native wildlife aren't sickened and killed by someone's profit-on-hooves. Just last month, an entire bighorn herd in Nevada was wiped out after catching pneumonia from domestic sheep, a risk the agency (BLM, in that case) refused to acknowledge, and now it's too late. (see
http://www.thewildlifenews.com/2016/02/19/bighorn-sheep-die-off-in-montana-mountains-nevada-is-it-any-wonder/ )
It isn't just bighorn, either. It's tule elk in California, it's bison in Montana; native wildlife are being sickened, displaced, or killed because of diseases passed to them from domestic livestock. That is wrong and WWP will fight to make it right.
see https://www.westernwatersheds.org/