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.

May 13, 2005

• Free Yellowstone from domestic livestock

• Gunnison Sage-Grouse Rangewide Conservation Plan (final)

  • Mineral lease auction nets BLM nearly $1.4M

    • BLM nets $1.3M from oil, gas leases

  • Plan may keep bird off endangered list: Wildlife officials working to enlist landowners' help

  • Forest Service scales back plans for burn

• The Most Expensive Ranches

  • 'Tax cows' still grazing in shade of huge exemptions

• Strategy aims to keep species off list (WY)

• Scientists preparing to unveil grasslands report (ND)

• U.S. man to be retested for human mad cow: "...may have been the first person to acquire human mad cow disease in the United State..."

  • Cow Brain: It’s What’s for Dinner!

  • Mad cow crisis starting to hurt U.S. beef industry

  • Congress Is Staying Clear of Dispute Over Mad Cow

    • Bid to block Canada cattle withers in U.S. House

    • U.S. ranchers want mad cow ruling

  • Japan finds a new possible case of mad cow disease (Editorial Note: This would be their 18th case. Is it possible that they have found so many BECAUSE THEY TEST? What does this indicate about the possible food safety in countries that do a fraction as much testing such as the US and Canada?)

    • Japan finds 18th case of mad cow disease

  • No Longer Kindred Souls in the Saddle: Mad Cow Disease Divides Canadian And U.S. Ranchers

  • Active vaccine prevents mice from developing prion disease

  • Mad Cow Disease-Resistant Calf Sent to Japan

    • Korea's Cloning Master to Strike Again

  • Double standards on beef confusing

• Colorado expands CWD testing

  • Wasting disease may hurt more than deer, U.S. senator fears

  • Louisiana Extends Ban on Deer, Elk Importation

• 'Greenup' brightens outlook for ranchers: "... but ... BLM grazing allotments in Fremont County have a long way to go for full recovery." (WY)

  • Drought crimps grazing on federal grasslands (SD)

  • Drought Links

• After the fall: "... a short story that takes us to an imagined future, Muir's cathedral, where the law of unintended consequences is slowly unfolding." (Hetch Hetchy Valley)

• Arizona: Earth First! Call to Action to Defend the Prairie Dogs!

• Species rebirth thanks to fence (AU)

• New hope for decimated rare flower

• Lawmaker protests loss of lynx protections

• Land exchange refloated in House (UT)

• Developers eye Mojave land

• Playing a fool's game with the environment: Requiring proof that a project won't cause harm is turning logic on its head

• Bush clear-cuts a forest plan

• Bleak future for our oldest plants (UK)

• The Case for Charisma

• Habitat conservation bank OK'd south of Dixon (CA)

• Tarkine activist says fight "far from over" (AU)

• NGOs launch programme to save the environment (Ghana)

• Mass death on Souli mountains (Greece) (wild horses)

• Gir lions shift to greener pastures: From a brown patch, the Girnar forest is now a showpiece green cover. The transformation has moved even the lions of neighbouring Gir—17 of them have made it their new den (India)

• Today's Editorial - Grazing: What is in a Word?