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 30, 2005

• The Rancher's Revenge: When environmentalists attacked, rancher Jim Chilton used the best ammunition he could find -- and it came from his enemy (Editorial Note: This one is a MUST READ. It provides "how to" for ranchers and their lawyers; and "how not to" for activists and their lawyers.)

• The Range War "Down Under"

  • Victoria ends cattle grazing in Alpine National Park

  • Alpine Park grazing to be banned

  • Grazing bans kill a legend

  • Mountain cattlemen eye national heritage status

  • Cattlemen coming to terms with Alps grazing ban

  • Canberra 'to head off cattlemen ban'

  • Brown slams bid to stop cattle ban

  • Cattlemen fight ban on grazing

  • Push for cattle ban in Murray redgums

  • Vic Govt says grazing ban to stay

  • Agistment threat angers cattlemen

• Nature Preserve Designed for 100,000 Acres of Tejon Ranch

• Rangeland poised for comeback: Ranchers positioned for recovery as the drought subsides, says NMSU researcher

  • Drought Links

• Northwest Montana wolves well-behaved

  • Wolf Comment (UT)

• Buffalo Soldiers

• Judge rips federal salmon plan

• Officials seeks more comment on bull trout

• GAO finds room for improvement in FWS science

• Landowners consider program for sage grouse habitat

  • Love is grand for lesser prairie chicken, whose courtship dance could save bird from extinction

• Feds deny protection for rabbit

• Tiller huckleberries get special status (OR)

• Dainty pink Mt. Diablo buckwheat rediscovered (CA)

• Curiosity leads woman to rare plant discovery: Grass species believed extinct seen by ecologist on Catalina Island.

• Fate of wild horses to be considered in U.S. Senate

• Mad Cow Disease Continues Economic Impact On American Beef

  • Boffins Probe Cluster of 'Mad Cow' Infections

• Supreme Court says producers can be forced to pay for beef ads (re: "beef checkoff")

• Court battle over sheepherders' plight highlights fading vocation

• Scientists Trace Corn Ancestry from Ancient Grass to Modern Crop

• Indian ranchers battling over grazing rates (ND)