The Ten Big Lies of Traditional Western Politics
Erik Molvar is a wildlife biologist and is the Laramie, Wyoming-based Executive Director of Western Watersheds Project, a nonprofit group dedicated to protecting and restoring watersheds and wildlife on western public lands.
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- Industrial oil and gas drilling is compatible with healthy wildlife populations
- Nobody wants to see the sage grouse (or anything else) listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)
- Logging, grazing, or fuelbreaks can stop big fires
- Wild horses are the real threat to western rangeland health
- Ranchers are the real environmentalists
- Predators are killing our wild game (or our profits) and their numbers need to be “managed”
- When the next boom hits, the good times will return
- Ranching is the cornerstone of western rural economies
- The oil, timber, and livestock industries have the right to extract private profits from public lands
- Local control would result in better management of western public lands
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