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.

April 26, 2005

• Suit seeks to halt grazing (NV)

• BLM will appraise impact of grazing (UT)

• ISU, UI workshop to focus on sage grouse

  • Gold mining prospects raise concerns (WY)

  • Plans are in the Works to Rescue Threatened Species of Wildlife (UT) (comment by May 6)

• Drought crimps grazing on federal lands (SD)

  • Deschutes one of 10 counties seeking drought assistance (OR)

  • U.S. Drought Monitor (current map)
  • U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook (current map)
  • Drought in the Interior West (multi-year chart)
  • Palmer Drought Severity Index, other Palmer Indices, Precipitation, and Temperature by State and Division (Data and Charts, 1895 - present)

• Japan Investigating Two New Suspected Mad Cow Cases, Kyodo Says

  • Are short sugar chains a future drug for Alzheimer's? (also VCJD, CJD, type II diabetes, etc.?)

  • France to Boost Tests for Mad Cow Disease in Goats

  • Study Points to Prions In Brain Disorders

    • Strongest proof yet found for prion hypothesis

  • Dutch Woman Diagonosed With Mad Cow

• Wildlife refuge looks to change ag rules: "...a plan to make those agricultural activities a bit easier to permit and institute... "

• Buffalo battle continues in Yellowstone

• Conservation of grasslands would help western counties

• A trip through Hells Canyon

• Forest Service film scheduled

• Mule Deer in Nevada: Habitat and Biology Part 1

• Sierra Nevada Resources Coalition Files Intervention/Stages Protest against Attorney General's Lawsuit on Sierra Nevada Forest Management Plan

• Northern quoll 'endangered' (AU) (Editorial note: another grazing related casualty.)

• High court declines to hear Indian trust case

  • Tribes win case against government

• Mary Dann, American Indian activist dies in ranch accident