Formerly "RangeBiome's Headlines", RangeTree County is the cyberspace equivalent of a "clipping service" providing a  periodic sample of news believed to be of interest to RangeBiome's audience.

March 5, 2005

• Ranching With Lawyers: The deep-pocketed Chiltons stampede their cattle critics

• Soil fertility's fall from graze

• Cattlemen fear decision will affect industry: county committee rejects "open range" (CA)

• False arguments in grazing debate (AU)

  • Defy the welfare issues, look after cows at home (Ed. note: Some western U.S. ranchers could learn a lot from a "down-under" cattleman.)

• Bison quarantine: Officials use facility to fight brucellosis

• Fish and Wildlife agrees to review petition on pygmy rabbit

• USFS works on prairie dog plan

  • Ferret recovery still a fight: Plague-free South Dakota sites most successful in the nation

• State fish caught in political net (CA)

• Mad Cow's Stubborn Mystery: Scientists still know far too little about it -- and the feds are making rules in the dark

  • Judge Delays USDA Plan to Allow Imports of Cattle From Canada

  • School meal link to CJD

  • U.S. Senate votes against reopening border to Canadian cattle

  • States moving to keep mad cow investigations secret

  • Creekstone Farms sold to Sun Capital Partners investment firm

  • 12 mad-cow cases detected in Spain since January

  • U.S. to propose new int'l rule on beef trade

  • Researchers working on device to detect BSE in live cattle 

• Financing the farmer: A special report exploring farm and ranch subsidies
• Judge: Manure rules said not protecting water
• Lawsuit aims to halt guzzlers

• BLM Seeks Central California Resource Advisory Council Nominations

  • BLM seeking applicants for 17 positions (OR & WA)

• Old photos hold key to environmental changes

• Trust land reform collapses: SALT says it is 'disappointed' (AZ)

  • Trust land selloff?

• Wily coyotes enjoying buffet across country

• Mustangs face slaughter in wild west

• Welcome to Doomsday