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• Grazing Songs: Lyrics for "Cowbird in the Nest" and "Up by Kern River"
• Campaign 2008 Video Sampler: contains the most recent video that had been posted to each candidate's YouTube site at the date and time shown. (initiated January 5, 2008)
• Pass Creek Allotment, ID (videos) (October 2, 2007)
• Review/Trailer - Western Turf Wars: The Politics of Public Lands Ranching (2007)     RealPlayer     Google/Flash     MySpace/Flash
• Under the hood of public rangeland management: a book review of "Western Turf Wars" (10/5/07)
• Dutch Henry Falls, Moses Coulee, Washington. A nature preserve owned by The Nature Conservancy. April, 2007.
  RealPlayer     Google/Flash     MySpace/Flash     Photo Essay
• Pintler Creek Unit, Joseph Creek Wildlife Area, Washington. April 2007.
  RealPlayer   Google/Flash   Photo index with Narrative    Slides
• Christopher Christie: New Blog, Videos, and Slideshows (February 2007)
• Video -Global Warming and the United States, 1896-2006: A Region by Region and State by State Overview.     RealPlayer     Google/Flash
• Developing an Aspen Management Protocol. January 21, 2007
• Managing Western Juniper to Restore Sagebrush Steppe and Quaking Aspen Stands. Sagebrush Sea Campaign. January, 2007.
    
• Western Turf Wars: The Politics of Public Lands Ranching
  Available April, 2007
    
• Watershed Conditions: Uinta Wilderness, Utah (West Fork Black’s Fork, East Fork Black’s Fork, Lake Fork. Middle Fork Beaver Creek, Burnt Fork).  October 30, 2006
  • Appendix 1 (maps)
  • Appendix 2 (photos)
  • Appendix 3 (data)
• Silly Season & The Dow (10/24/06)
• QUID PRO QUO WILDERNESS — a new threat to public lands. May 2006. (PDF)
• Photos of Arizona Game Management Units
• Why Riparian Area Protection is Like the War in Iraq (2006)
• Videos by Mike Hudak (interviews conducted in 2003 & 2004)
  •  Ranching Politics in Academia. Robert Amundson
  • Holistic Management of Rangelands—Consequences for Avian Species. Clait E. Braun
  • Incredibly Low Grazing Fees On Federal Public Lands. Len Carpenter
  • Governmental Inflexibility of Managing Grazing During Drought. Len Carpenter
  • The Future of Ranching on Western Public Lands. Patrick Diehl
  • Cattle Removal Allows Bruneau River’s Environmental Recovery. Bob Phillips
  • Land Management Deficiencies of the U.S. Forest Service. Ray Neiwert
  • Pro-Ranching Social Pressure on Forest Service Employees. Bill Worf
  • Changes by G. W. Bush Administration in BLM Management Martha Hahn
  • Political Interference at BLM Results in Unsound Grazing Management Doug Troutman
  • Political Pressure on Forest Service Employees Don Oman
  • Animal Damage Control. Renee Galeano-Popp
  • Livestock Grazing Damages Pine Creek Basin. Bill Worf
  • Holistic Resource Management. Steve Gallizioli
  • The Gunnison Basin Gunnison Sage-Grouse Working Group. Clait E. Braun
  • BLM's Management of Livestock. Doug Troutman
  • Cattle Grazing Disrupts Natural Fire in Western Forests. Leon Fager
  • Livestock’s Role in Spreading Weeds and Pinion-Juniper. Steve Monsen
  • Livestock Grazing at Trout Creek (Sawtooth National Forest, ID). Don Oman
  • Livestock Grazing in the Black Hills. Charmaine White Face (Zumila Wobaga)
  • The Economics of Public Lands Ranching. Doug Barber
  • Interaction of Cattle and Burned Rangeland. Jim Prunty
  • The Campaign to Protect the Golden Trout Wilderness, Todd Shuman
  • Forest Service Politics, Renee Galeano-Popp
  •  The Influence of Idaho Watersheds Project on BLM, Martha Hahn
  •  Politics in Public Lands Management, Steve Gallizioli
  • The Montana Conflict Between Cattle and Bison, Ralph Maughan
  • Livestock Management on the Twin Falls Ranger District, Don Oman
  • Genesis of RangeNet, Larry Walker (Google/Flash version)
  • Soil Erosion at South Parker Creek, Bill Worf
• Do Cows Matter? Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge: Before and After. 2004
• Administrative Procedures Act Petition to Develop Region-wide Drought Policy (June, 2002) (PDF)
• Cloud Over Worland BLM: A Speculation (6/2/06)
• SLAPP v. SLAPOD (6/2/06)
• Western Ground: The Capture of Grass, Ground, and Government. by Debra L. Donahue. In Environmental Law, Fall 2005, Vol. 35:721 (PDF)
• Larry Walker's Bookshelf 2/16/06
• Oregon Wolves 1/22/06
• Free High Resolution Public Domain Images from RangeBiome.org
• The Waste of the West: The Ecological Consequences of Public Lands Livestock Grazing (August, 2003) (PDF)
• The Genesis of RangeNet (QuickTime Video, 7 minutes)
• FREE YELLOWSTONE from domestic livestock. (poster) March 2005.
• RangeNet The Movie. A psychedelic tour of images on the RangeNet.org web site. (dynamically updated)
• BLM Grazing Program Evaluation: Oregon & Washington - 1989
• "Vegan Rainbow" radio interview with Patrick Diehl. April 26, 2004 (MP3 audio)
• South Warner Wilderness (July 29, 2001)
• Commercial Livestock Grazing in Grand Teton National Park. (June 2004)
• Antelope Basin Management Area, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, MT (photographed August 2002)
• Doublesprings Exclosure, Pahsimeroi Allotment, Salmon-Challis National Forest, ID (photographed August 2003)
• Analysis of Grazing on BLM Lands in Wyoming. June 4, 2004
• Mad Cow Poll: When will the next case of Mad Cow Disease be found in the U.S.? RangeBiome Editorial. 5/31/04
• New trail construction at Sycamore Valley Open Space destroys sensitive plant & wildlife habitat. Press Release. 5/8/04
• Bigger Box for BIG Oil. RangeBiome Editorial. 5/8/04
• "Vegan Rainbow" is a weekly 1-hour interview radio show co-hosted by Mike Hudak that focuses primarily on animals, environmental conservation and social justice. Audio files of the shows are provided online in mp3 format for downloading. (2/9/04 - present)
• "Mad Cow" One More Sign of a Dysfunctional Ag Industry. Sierra Atlantic, Spring 2004, Vol. 31, 6.
• The Big Picture: Western Drought Intensifies (4/3/04)
• Drought in the Interior West: 2000 - present
• ========== POSTED IN JANUARY THRU MARCH, 2004 ==========
• Comments: Vernal BLM Resource Management Plan DEIS (RMP/EIS). March 23, 2004 (PDF)
• Comment on Proposed Revision to Grazing Regulations for the Public Lands (February 25, 2004) (PDF)
• Eastern Oregon Weather Trivia: 1885-1995
• Eastern Oregon Water Year Precipitation & Cumulative Effects, 1885-1995 (PDF)
• Morgan Creek Allotment, Salmon-Challis National Forest, ID (2002)
• Seral Inflation (May, 2003)
• Beyond Ridiculous 3/14/04
• Core Sampling of Selected High Cold Desert Region Wetlands in the Sweetwater River Drainage (August 28, 2002)
• Bait-and-Switch Syndrome 2/10/04
• ========== POSTED IN NOVEMBER 2003 ==========
• OUR Western Public Lands (video series)
• FOREST service "WEASELS" 11/30/03
• The Candidates.. (RealVideo 4 minutes)    [Dial-up 1mb]     [Broadband 6.5mb]
• "Cowzilla and the Wild Things" (RealVideo 8 minutes))     [ Dial-up ]     [ Broadband ]
• Recipient of Edward Abbey Memorial Hooved Locust Award 11/6/03
  • Acceptance: Awards, Wolves, Family & Coincidence

• ==========POSTED IN OCTOBER, 2003 ==========

• Diamond Bar Allotment, Gila National Forest, NM (photographed July 2003)

• Riparian Ecosystem Evaluation: A Review and Test of BLM's Proper Functioning Condition Assessment Guidelines (May, 2002)

• Multiple Use Grazing Management In The Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument: A tool provided to the Monument range staff by the Southern Utah Land Restoration Project (September, 2003)

• Ranchers, BLM fight over grazing rights (9/14/03)

• Bandera Co. voters say 'no' to free range law (2/6/03)

• Voices From History -- Are We Listening?

• Our Founders Speak Out -- Would They be Disappointed?

• Arizona Residents Tired of Licking Ranchers' Boots

• Subdivisions On The Range Homeowners, Wandering Cattle Can Make For Uneasy Neighbors (7/4/03)

• Fence In The Cows, Not The People (6/15/03)

• Livestock Industry Wreaks Incredible Damage (12/1/02)

• So I Shot a Cow!!? (2-21-03)

• Cattle Rustler (late 1985)

• Cage cattle, NOT people!! (4-21-03)

• Cattle, Justice & Property Rights (4-23-03)

• Ranchers Abusing Dogs (6-03-03)

• 'Open Range' in Canada!! (6-10-03)
• Cattle can be Dangerous! (6-10-03)
• Golden Rule of Cattle Ranching (7/13/03)
• Downside of Open Range (7-16-03)
• Did you Know!! (8-1-03)
• Your Support is Needed (9-28-03)
• The perils of cattle at large ((6/12/03)
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• Radical Self-Lobotomy 9/29/03
• North Rich Allotment Draft Environmental Impact Statement Analysis and Comments September 1, 2003 (pdf)
• Listen on the Wind (adult fiction, 2003)
• Livestock Exclosure Near Seneca, Oregon (2003)
• Cow Kills Two Brothers on Nebraska Highway (7/28/03)
• More Evidence of Cow Attacks Uncovered at EBRPD
• Rancher shoots firefighting chopper (7/8/03)
• Swerline convicted, sentenced for cow deaths (7/1/03)
• "Open Range"
• Calif. Groups Win Grazing Suit Vs. U.S. (6/21/03)
• Troubled Home on the Range (6/19/03)
• Cows Immitate Lemmings (5/15/03)
  • 20 dairy cows tumble from cliff in Marin
• Montana Rancher Weighs in on Public Safety & Public Lands Ranching
• Woman Attacked by Cow Gets $915,000 in Damages
• In Idaho, a roaming cow is queen and you may die (12/12/1997)
• Responsible Ranchers -- Where are they? (7/21/03)
• Reply to Carroll Cox (Pioneer) (7-7-03)
• Response to Pioneer editorial (6-4-03)
• Open grazing vs. barbed wire in New West (1/27/01) 
• Arizona's outdated range laws (2/7/1999) 
• Bad Cow Public Relations (1997)
• Why Open Range Cattle? (9/1/03)
• There is No Federal "Open Range" 8/31/03
• Ecological effects of ranching: A six-point critique (August, 2003) (PDF)
• Arizona’s open range laws are profitable for ranchers, but dangerous for property owners. 8/30/03
• Diamond Bar Allotment Trespass (July, 2003) (PDF)
• Las Cienagas Conservation Area Grazing Violations (July 2003) (PDF)
• When Will the Absurdity End in East Bay? 8/11/03
• Wolf Reintroduction, Public Lands Ranching and Voluntary Federal Grazing Permit Buyout (June 2003)
• Rock Creek/Mudholes Allotment, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, UT (photographed August 2002)
• The Ecological Impacts of Livestock Grazing in the Arid West (2003) a PowerPoint presentation
• Granite Mountain Common Allotment, WY (photographed September 2002)
• Cumberland/Uinta Allotment (BLM), WY (photographed August 2002)
• Utah State Trust Lands (photographed August 2002)
• Burnt Creek Exclosure, ID (photographed August 2002)
• Shooting the Messenger? Tightening the Gag? Sierra Club Board Removes Antiwar Activist Diehl from Office – Diehl Calls for Glasnost in Club (6/11/03)
• Once Upon a SVIM 5/18/03
• Mother Nature's Face. A Tim Lengerich folk song, 2003
• Livestock, Degraded Ecosystems and Biodiversity. October 15, 2002.
• Report from Greenfire: Angles of Repose. Spring 2003
• Report from Utah: Call of the Wild. Spring 2003
• WWP President's Perspective. Spring 2003
• WWP Director's Notes. Spring 2003
• The Cry of the Wolf in the West Spring 2003
• Lessons from the West
• Survey Of Middle Fork Beaver Creek and West Fork Blacks Fork: Uinta Wilderness, Utah. 7/8/02 (PDF)
• Livestock Grazing Contributes to Fire Hazard Summer 2002
• The Truth About Land Use in the United States Summer 2002
• Subsidized Federal Grazing Won't Prevent Sprawl Summer 2002
• Bison, Not Cattle, Belong in the West. Summer 2001
• Defining the Management of Our Public Lands Summer 2001
• A Range is Not a Home Where Yellowstone's Buffalo Roam. Fall, 2001
• Livestock Spoil the Native Diversity on America's Public Lands. Fall, 2001
• Ranchers to Public-Lands Managers: See No Evil, Speak No Evil. Fall, 2001
• University Extension Bias. 3/9/03
• National Forest Ecosystem Protection Act (H.R.652)
  • Introduced in 108th Congress by Representative Robert E. Andrews (D-NJ), February 7, 2003

• EBRPD Grazing Policy Violations Report: Overgrazing & Hydrologic Erosion, Sycamore Valley Open Space - North. January 20, 2003

• Book Review: Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West January/February 2003

• Lander BLM: Do Your Job 12/20/02

• Livestock Industry Wreaks Incredible Damage 12/1/02

• Lemhi Miracle Debunked 11/26/02

• Public Lands Ranchers: Heading for the Last Roundup? October 2002

• Disillusioned, Beat Down and No Longer in Proper Functioning Condition 10/13/02

• The Proposed National Forest Ecosystem Protection Act posted 9/7/02

• What About Public Property Rights? 7/31/02

• Environmental Protections Being Gutted by Ranchers' Allies in Congress 7/26/02

• Out There, Anywhere, All The Time. An album of folk songs by Tim Lengerich

• Why I Like Recessions 7/10/02 

• Battling Interviews: An open letter to investigative reporters 6/27/02

• Do No Harm. 6/7/02

• Report from Greenfire: In Wildness is the Preservation of the World. Spring 2002

• Public Lands Ranching: Welfare State in the West. Spring 2002

• Watershed Restoration Requires Beaver Restoration. Spring 2002

• Systemic Rot 5/26/02

• The New West 5/18/02

• Make historic range available to bison 5/15/02

• Ranchers Make Assumptions About Their "Rights" on Public Lands 5/13/02

• I'll Scratch Your Back... 5/7/02

• Northern Utah Public Lands Grazing 5/3/02

• Stewardship or Rhetoric? (4/22/02)

• Impact of Grazing on 153 Species of Southwestern Birds (April, 2002)

• Scientific Name Supplement (lookup by Larry Walker) To Seventy of Arizona's 116 State Threatened or Endangered Species Have Cattle Grazing as a Causal Factor in Their Imperilment

• An educational tool about cattle grazing (Spring 2002)

• Inside RangeNet #2 (crossword, 3/18/02)

• Inside RangeNet #1 (crossword, 3/18/02)

• Western Plants & Wildflowers #2 (crossword, 3/16/02)

• Western Plants & Wildflowers #1 (crossword, 3/15/02)

• Hooved Locusts and Bovine Bulldozers: Ending Public Lands Grazing. (Presented at PIELC, 3/9/02)

• Crosswords (3/14/02)

  • Mostly Parody Meets Arizona's Grazing Casualties

  • Mostly Parody #2

  • Arizona's Grazing Casualties #2

  • Mostly Parody #1  

  • Arizona's Grazing Casualties  

• Papers by Raymond V. Corning (March, 2002)

  • Diminished Sweetwater River Flows From the High Cold Desert Region of Wyoming (February 13, 2002) now in HTML & PDF

  • The linked Stream Stressors - Water Fluctuation, Sedimentation, and Erosion

• Smithsfork Allotment, WY (March 2002)
• Your Cow's In My Pocket Again 
• An Assault on Biodiversity in The Name Of Wildlands & Habitat Preservation (February 25, 2002)
• Granite Mountain Common Allotment, WY  (February 2002)
• Green Mountain Common Allotment, WY (February 2002)
• Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, UT (January 2002)
• Brumley Ridge Allotment, Manti-La Sal National Forest, UT (January 2002)
• Dutchwoman Butte: A Grassland Never Grazed By Livestock, AZ (January 2002)
• Permit Value: A Hidden Key to the Public Land Grazing Dispute. M.S. Thesis. March, 1998
• Maintaining Bovine Readiness at Fort Hood: Clearing the Way for Cattle on Texas Public Lands (Nov/Dec 2001)
• National Public Lands Grazing Campaign Web Site
• Cattle Impoundment Nixed on GSENM (11/20/01)
• Taylor Responds to Dagget (11/19/01)
• Management by Myths (11/10/01)
  • Selected References (11/7/01)
• BLM grazing decisions appealed for 31 Utah allotments, stay requested to prevent grazing pending resolution of appeal 10/11/01
• Sierra Club Glen Canyon Group Calls for End to Public Lands Ranching in Seven Southern Utah Counties (8/23/01)
• The Earth's Carrying Capacity - Some Literature Reviews
  • includes: Grazing Lands Degradation: A Global Perspective
• Pro-Livestock Industry Propaganda Disseminated by the Sierra Club. revised July, 2001
• To Graze or Not to Graze? revised July, 2001
• Livestock: Myth and Reality. revised July 5, 2001
• Trespass Cattle Still on Fifty-Mile Mountain - Griffins Overstocked the Lake Allotment - Escalante Group Calls for End to Grazing on Fifty-Mile Mountain After Documenting Conditions with BLM on June 20-21 (6/25/01)
• Our Federal Public Lands: Wildlife Habitat or Cattle Pasture? June 2001 (917 words)
• BLM Grazing Statistics: 1947 - 2000
• Our public lands: Wildlife habitat or cattle pasture? Spring 2001 (499 words)
• Livestock Grazing Has Nearly Destroyed Western Arid Lands. 6/1/01
• Mike Hudak's Photo Gallery of Livestock Production on Western Public Lands
• Seventy of Arizona's 116 State Threatened or Endangered Species Have Cattle Grazing as a Causal Factor in Their Imperilment March 2001
• Extreme Pleasures of East Bay Regional Cow Parks,  March 2001
• Our Federal Public Lands: For ranchers or wildlife? April/May, 2001
• Statement from George Wuerthner Concerning the Arguments in opposition to the End Commercial Livestock Grazing Initiative. 3/19/01
• End Commercial Grazing on Federal Public Land -- An Argument, March 2001
• Review and Analysis of Cattle Grazing Effects in the Arid West, With Implications for BLM Grazing Management in Southern Utah. February, 2001
• Grazing threatens Arizona’s Wildlife Jan.-Feb. 2001
• Teddy Roosevelt would have agreed with us March-April 2001
• Cow Conservation is a Flawed Strategy
• THE CONDOS VS COWS MYTH
• Beef - Real Food for Real People: Cultural Perceptions of the Cowboy, Beef, and its Influence Upon Management of Western Rangelands
• Are Cows Just Domestic Bison? Behavioral and Habitat Use Differences Between Cattle and Bison
• Overview of the Economic Significance of the Livestock Industry
• How to Respond to the Grazing-As-Tool Arguments
• Livestock Harmless? A Checklist
• Restoring North America with a Fork: The role of Agriculture in the destruction of biodiversity.
• Livestock Grazing in the Blue Mountains of Oregon
• Livestock Grazing around and in Lake Tahoe
• Grazing in Utah's Great Basin
• Some Grazing Exclosures in Canyon Country and Central Utah

• Photo Album of Western Plants and Wildflowers

• "CalPhotos" by Christopher Christie

• Analysis of Ground Cover in Forest Openings in the Bear Hodges Analysis Area, Little Bear Sheep Allotment, North Rich Cattle Allotment. Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah. October 27, 2000 
• HUNTERS AND WILDLIFE SUPPORTERS: IT'S NOT BEARS, COUGARS OR COYOTES - IT'S LIVESTOCK! 
• Livestock and Water Quality
• Livestock Grazing and Weed Invasions in the Arid West. 2000 (pdf)
• The Coronado Cougar
• "Winning the War for the West" Critiqued: by Mike Hudak
• Why the Sierra Club Should Adopt a Policy Opposing Commercial Livestock Grazing on Public Lands
  • Deficiencies of Sierra Club Policy Code 10.5 "Grazing On The Public 
    Lands" (Adopted September 12, 1992) and Arguments for the Adoption of a Provision Opposing the Grazing of Domestic Livestock on Federal Public Lands
• Commercial Livestock Production on Federal Public Lands: Environmental Destruction at Taxpayer Expense
• Plains sense: Frank and Deborah Popper's 'Buffalo Commons' is creeping toward reality
• A Buffalo Commons bibliography
• Cattle grazing on public lands (introduction and contents)
  • The Fence line Effect
  • The Amphibious Cow
  • Cattle Grazing on Public Lands
  • Resource Consumption by Cattle on Public Lands
  • Losing Ground
  • Desert, by Calfin Kattle
  • What's Really Going On at Malheur NWR?
  • What Will Happen If the Ranchers Are Gone?
  • The Debate of Western Ranching Economics
  • Majority Rules?
  • Common Ground
  • Cultural Heritage vs. The Environment
• Wolves (introduction and contents)
  • Predator's Restoration Planned for Southwest
  • Words for and Against Wolves
  • Attitudes on Wolf Reintroduction
  • Responses to Views Against Wolf Reintroduction
  • Wolf Links
• Survey of livestock influences on stream and riparian ecosystems in the western United States. 1999 (pdf)
  • Bibliography for above
• The Western Range Revisited : Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity: by Debra L. Donahue. Paperback (December 1999)
• The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity: by Debra L. Donahue. Hardcover (November 1999)
• HEAD 'EM UP MOVE 'EM OUT A Six Part Series on Cattle Grazing in the West...(Paul Koberstein Editor)
• The Year Ned's Cattle Came To Danville
• Conservation and the Law : A Dictionary (Contemporary Legal Issues): by Debra L. Donahue. Hardcover (August 1998)
• Effects of livestock grazing on stand dynamics and soils of upland forests of the Interior West. 1997
• Western juniper expansion: is it a threat to western ecosystems? 1996
• State land bureau puts ranchers ahead of schoolchildren
• "Home on the Range" Is Actually an Environmental Folk Song
• A Proposal to Expand the Market in Federal Public Land Grazing Permits
• I Drove Edward Abbey's Truck
• Profiles in Conservation: The Hoskissons
• How to Have a Successful Grassroots Campaign
• A Critique of American Biology
• The Writings of Jim Britell
• The Tree Hugger
• The decline and fall of salmon
• A New Challenge: Overcoming Green Sexism
• Author: "101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian"
• Key Elements For Ecological Planning: Management Principles, Recommendations, and Guidelines for Federal Lands East of the Cascade Crest in Oregon and Washington
• Images From Our Grazed Public Lands, Haiku Poems by Jane Baxter
• Livestock Liabilities: Impacts of Commercial Livestock Grazing On Your Public Lands (video)
• Federal Rangeland "Management" Manages to Destroy the Environment
• Making a Difference
• Sierra Nevada Alliance Recognizes Jane Baxter
• Hells Canyon Preservation Council Photo Gallery
• About Rangeland Pearls
• Grazing Simulation Model  INTERACTIVE
• ODE TO ICY-BUMP
• OAESIS, A Rangeland Database, Version 1.0 , User's Guide. 1997 (pdf)
• Some Major Rangeland Potential Vegetation Types and Community Classes in the Interior Columbia Basin and Northern Great Basin - A Chart Book 1997 (pdf)
• A Partial Limiting Factor Assessment of Rangeland Integrity on BLM Lands in Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington - A Chart Book. 1997 (pdf)
• Oregon Precipitation, 1885-1995. Maps, graphs, and more.