“Here is another excellent article by the Property and Environmental Research Center (PERC) a free market conservation think tank based in Bozeman.

According to sources quoted in the article, “Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has distinguished itself as the most corrupt, ineffective and abusive agency in the federal government.”

As discussed in the compelling article published above, “Wild horses that are restored back into their evolutionary roles as keystone herbivores naturally protect forests, wildlife, watersheds and wilderness ecosystems, which benefit through symbiotic grazing by wild horses that naturally maintain wildfire fuels (grass and brush) to nominal levels, thereby reducing the both the frequency and intensity of wildfire.”

It’s springtime at Pitchstone Waters, which means that we can access our game cameras in the high forests along our boundary with the national forest, and see last winter’s photos. The game camera that took these photos is located 5-miles southwest of Yellowstone Park’s southwest corner. This corner of the park is called the Pitchstone Plateau.

The Pitchstone Plateau, named after the lava pitchstone, occupies the southwest corner of the park in the Bechler and Fall River drainages. The rhyolite lava flows that created the 250,000-acre plateau occurred about 70,000 years ago.

We use goats and cattle to create a patchy mosaic of relatively open forest along the dense and overgrown national forest. Here are wolves a young bull moose, and a moose cow traveling along our northeast fence-line.

A wonderful Desert Bighorn Sheep video from Nevada’s Department of Wildlife.

The gamebirds are Chukar (Alectoris chukar), a much-treasured partridge originally native to the foothills of the Himalayas. American stock originated in Afghanistan and Nepal. Chukar have naturalized across much of the West in areas where their native food plants – including thistle and cheatgrass – had previously established. Chukar need free water.