Meat production is siphoning off California’s water supply

Food for thought in this guest editorial by Tracy Reiman for the Daily News. We just posted an infographic by Vickery Eckhoff concerning who's grazing public lands. TRACY REIMAN'S ARTICLE » As California enters its fourth consecutive year of drought — prompting Gov. Brown to order mandatory water restrictions — why is the Golden State…

Salazar, Abbey order re-designates American “wild lands”

An article in an Idaho newspaper caught my eye. In it a public lands cattle rancher bemoans new federal regulations by Interior Secretary Salazar, involving the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The public lands that local ranchers use for grazing could soon be limited by the federal government under a new order from Department of…