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 26, 2005

• BLM Updates Land Use Planning Handbook: Incorporates policy and guidance developed over past four years

• Enviros plan water monitoring

• Oil and Gas Thumper Trucks Set to Disturb Wyoming Wilderness

  • Hands on in the hills

  • Will no site be off-limits?

  • Officials OK plan to stock sage grouse by Strawberry

• Confusion arrives on wings of doves

• Chief accepts Wasatch-Cache plan

• Plan allows development in Southern California deserts

• Landowners in Western Nebraska Cited for Clean Water Act Violations

• Spring snow doesn't stick to ribs of drought (ND)

  • Drought reducing cattle numbers in southwestern North Dakota
  • U.S. Drought Monitor (current map)

  • U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook (current map)

  • Drought in the Interior West (multi-year chart)

• Japan holds firm on US beef ban

  • Saudi Bans Canada Beef Imports Over Mad Cow Fears

  • No warning given about beef from wrongly-slaughtered cattle

  • French woman may have had vCJD in 1971

    • NIH may destroy human brain collection (Editorial note: "Shredding" the evidence?)

  • Bill regulating mad cow reports OK'd (CO)

    • Cattle Disease Secrecy Bill Heads To Governor

• Wild horses or free-range meat?

• Stanley residents oppose land gifts for wilderness

• After 100 years, Forest Service still grappling with timber cutting and wildfire

• Farmers meet to study about how to be more environmentally friendly

• Neolithic find shows UAE desert site was once green

  • some recommended related background reading

• 'Fish at Risk from Pollution (UK)

• Boundary dispute heats up: Paiute Mesa rep to seek legal opinion on resident's unwanted chapter exchange