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Cat Urbigkit: The Adventures Of Harriet The Horrible

Harriet was raised with orphan lambs, and even at just a few months old, she was exceptionally grumpy about anyone messing with her lambs – even though it was our job to feed the lambs milk replacer numerous times a day.

Cat UrbigkitMay 31, 2023

Cat Urbigkit: Oddities from the News -- Lions ‘Garden to Hunt’ & Bundy’s BBQ Standoff

Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, "Ammon Bundy is having another standoff, dubbed the #BBQStandoff by one of his detractors, Devin Burghart of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights."

Cat UrbigkitMay 23, 2023

Cat Urbigkit: BLM’s 'Conservation' Proposal Generates Form Letters in Support, While Opposition Calls For Withdrawal, & Threat of Congressional Action

Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, "The Bureau of Land Management’s proposed rules that would prioritize “conservation” and authorize conservation leasing on equal footing with other permitted uses such as mineral development and livestock grazing has generated enough controversy that western Republican Senators are asking the agency to withdraw the proposal."

Cat UrbigkitMay 17, 2023

Cat Urbigkit: Wyoming Wolf Population Remains Stable, But Costs $1.28 Million to Manage

Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, "Although wolf advocates have petitioned the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for a relisting of gray wolves in Wyoming and other states in the Northern Rockies, Wyoming’s wolf population exceeded federal recovery criteria for the species for the 21st consecutive year in 2022."

Cat UrbigkitMay 09, 2023

Cat Urbigkit: WyoFile Allows Impersonator To Inflame Rhetoric About Public Lands

Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, "Hell no, I didn’t write the comment. But WyoFile allowed someone to impersonate me to inflame the public about ranching and public lands."

Cat UrbigkitMay 07, 2023

Cat Urbigkit: In Push For Conservation, Bureau Of Land Management Usurps Congress

Cat Urbigkit writes: “Though perhaps well-intended, the proposed rules are staggeringly riddled with problematic language that will guarantee that federal courts will be overburdened with legal challenges. … What a terrible way to manage public resources.”

Cat UrbigkitMay 02, 2023

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Cat Urbigkit: Who Has Traditional Ecological Knowledge?

Cat Urbigkit writes: “The Biden administration has adopted the concept of traditional ecological knowledge, but narrowed it to exclude all but ‘indigenous knowledge.’ While attempting to eliminate racial disparities, the administration has a tendency to marginalize or exclude others in the process, furthering inequity rather than resolving it.”

Cat UrbigkitApril 25, 2023

Cat Urbigkit: Winter Isn’t Loosening Its Grip On Wyoming Big Game Herds

Cat Urbigkit writes: “Winterkill may provide an immediate surplus of carcasses for wild predators but with doubtful benefits since there probably isn’t much nutrition in a prey animal that has starved to death.”

Cat UrbigkitApril 18, 2023

Cat Urbigkit: Awbi The Guardian Dog vs The Red Foxes

Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, "The snow crust in this deep snow winter hasn’t been strong enough to hold the weight of a large dog, so the foxes have been able to go about their business untroubled by the dogs. But that changed a few weeks ago..."

Cat UrbigkitApril 11, 2023

Cat Urbigkit: Interior Department Proposes Major Makeover in Public Lands Management

The Biden Administration has proposed significant changes to how federal lands are managed by the U.S. Interior Department, shifting the Bureau of Land Management away from its principles..

Cat UrbigkitApril 04, 2023

Cat Urbigkit: Life In Wyoming — Can’t Get The Feed To The Sheep, So Trailing The Sheep To The Feed

Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes: "Just when we thought spring might be coming soon, we got hit by another winter storm. We knew there wasn’t any way we could move hay to get it to the sheep. We would need to move the sheep to the feed."

Cat UrbigkitMarch 28, 2023

Cat Urbigkit: Winter Trails

Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, "It was -35° one early February morning when I sat down at my computer to check on the happenings of the Wyoming Legislature. As I looked out the window, I spotted the red foxes, my daily entertainment those last few weeks."

Cat UrbigkitMarch 22, 2023

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