RangeNet Project
Project War

"Winning the War for The West"

"The publication of Perri Knize's pro-ranching article in The Atlantic Monthly is an event of enormous significance in the campaign to protect western public lands from the environmental tyranny of the livestock industry. It is the first time I'm aware of that a mainstream, non-environmental, mass-media magazine has so strongly supported the livestock industry, and dismissed and attacked those who seek to protect public lands."

Contents:

• "Winning the War for the West" Critiqued by Mike Hudak (with extensive references)(updated 6/29/99)

  • Other Comments (updated 1/26/00)

• "Winning the War for the West", by Perri Knize

  • Published Letters and Rebuttal (Oct 99) The Atlantic Monthly (posted 1/7/00)
  • Published Letters and Rebuttal (Nov 99) The Atlantic Monthly (posted 1/6/00)
    • Joy Belsky's Response to Perri Knize's Rebuttal (posted 1/10/00)
  • Published Letters and Rebuttal (Dec 99) The Atlantic Monthly (posted 1/7/00)

• "Head 'Em Up, Move 'Em Out": A Six Part Series on Cattle Grazing in the West, by Steven T. Taylor (a different perspective)

• "Cash Cows, The Giveaway of the West": A Mercury News Special Report, by Paul Rogers and Jennifer LaFleur (another perspective) Note: Mercury News redesigned their website in May 2002 with considerable degradation to this report. The linked page is just one of the sections of the original report, with links to other surviving sections at the bottom of that page.

• "High Noon in cattle country": Sierra, April/May 2000

  • Comments by Mike Hudak (posted 5/7/00)