WildLands Defense

Rat poison sales need to drop to zero. Every owl you see is eating 1,000+ rodents a year. Every hawk you see is keeping pests in check. Quit poisoning them. 🦉

"the latest—and perhaps most grotesque—example of the deep-seated disdain and irrational hatred many people harbor toward wolves. It’s a particularly prevalent attitude in the hunting and state wildlife management community". Is there hope for change??? thewildlifenews.com/2026/03/21/the…

Wildflowers popping out in the Boise Foothills.

5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…

"In the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) they reduced critical habitat by 88% by ignoring  historical lynx occupancy and claiming that little habitat exists.  Yet the model shows that some of the best habitats in the Northern and Southern Rockies occur in the GYA".

Got a problem adding more roads, cows, logging/“restoration”, mining & winter recreation piercing Canada Lynx habitat? Well, the Forest Service has a modeling “fix” for that! Abracadabra, Lynx habitat disappears. thewildlifenews.com/2026/03/21/can…

Bad news for sure. Black Vultures are also being reviled & persecuted by cattlemen. The NCBA (beef cattle lobby group) is pushing for cowmen to be able to kill these wonderful birds - because occasionally they might take a newborn calf.

Extinct California grizzlies fishing for giant chinook salmon in the Sacramento River, late Holocene before European contact. Oil on cotton rag paper 7.5 x 10 inches

Complexities of Golden Eagles in the East. A pair wintering together in Kentucky, migrating separately, then meeting up at a nest site in Wapusk National Park in Canada. Had to look it up - its by Hudson Bay. thealpenanews.com/opinion/2026/0…

As Chronic Wasting Disease slays Mule Deer and spreads, hunters obsess over Cougars. "There’s more concern about the lions killing the mule deer than CWD.” wyofile.com/despite-cwd-su…

The Interior Department was hit with a lawsuit accusing the agency of illegally convening the Endangered Species Committee to waive protections for animals in the Gulf of Mexico in order to allow for more offshore drilling there. news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-an…

The article hypes consultants & Uranium miners "collaborating" to get the Aurora project on a FAST-41 fast track status, as they see it as part of getting on the a Trump regime Welfare Mining loan/investment gravy train - like Thacker Pass got.

WHERE are Oregon public lands activists? Uranium mining is looming in the McDermitt Caldera. Eagle Energy has been hyping its efforts to get a fast-track process for an Oregon Uranium mine -wrecking the Sage-grouse habitat right by Jindalee lithium.🧵

Here's an old mercury mine site by the Eagle Energy Uranium claims. Imagine what Uranium mining would do. On top of the processing pollution under Nevada's anything-goes environmental oversight. markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/ea…

The Uranium miner's want to mine Uranium (and Lithium) in Oregon, then move the hot rocks just across the state line to Nevada to be processed on a speck of private land. McDermitt & Reservation are just downwind. Devastating impacts to people & Quinn watershed are highly likely.

White Nose Syndrome, an exotic deadly fungal disease that kills bats, has now been detected in a bat Oregon. It's spreading - including on people's clothes & shoes from one cave to another - across the US. youtube.com/watch?v=e6aZVN…

This toxic fake grass crap is in front of Boise City Hall, is the only surface other than asphalt at a catholic school, at an expensive private elementary school, & at least 2 daycares in my neighborhood. What are kids breathing in?

How is Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 Interior Dept official and longtime rancher, now working on grazing-related issues? When she joined Trump 1.0, she signed a disqualification statement that barred her from "any discussion of grazing matters” NEW: publicdomain.media/p/interior-kar…

Black-throated Gray Warblers nest in mature & old growth Western Juniper forests in ID & OR. BLM is wiping out this forest pretty much everywhere it occurs with hideous jackpot & other burning, chainsaws, mastication. Owyhee region is being decimated.

New paper showing HARM to Pinyon Jay, Woodhouse Scrub Jay, Black-throated Gray Warbler, Juniper Titmouse, Virginia's Warbler, Juniper Titmouse + more birds- from PJ Forest "thinning" projects that BLM/USFS inflict on public lands. Time for a moratorium on all this PJ killing!