May 2007

  • Rocky Barker's blog: Changing climate in Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    Barker writes about Idaho farming and the changing climate. He suggests legislation that would pay farmers for “sequestering or capturing carbon in the soil through new farming practices and by planting trees.” I would suggest that one of the most cost effective measures would be to retire public grazing allotments in order to sequester carbon,…

  • Wyoming Senator Craig Thomas wants wild and scenic rivers protection for portions of Wyoming rivers.

    Ralph Maughan

    This is the first time in memory that I recall a Wyoming member of Congress wanting to do anything like this. Many of these streams are already mostly protected by virtue of being in designated Wilderness Area (regarded as near perfect protection anyway), but the Wilderness Act has a little known provision that has never…

  • With grizzly delisting, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming will no longer be able to blame the feds.

    Ralph Maughan

    Grizzly Delisting Will Test States, Forest Service. By Bill Schneider. New West. Bashing the federal government for excessive restrictions, unneeded to truly protect the grizzly, has been a popular activity among state politicians in these 3 states. They won’t have this issue to use anymore says Schneider, who goes on to fear for the future…

  • Report: Drilling squeezes hunters, habitat in the West

    Ralph Maughan

    Report: Drilling squeezes hunters, habitat. By Matthew Brown. Associated Press writer. Casper Star Tribune. In the old sense of the phrase, the real wolf at the door in the West is the energy industry. post 1087

  • Rocky Barker's blog: Firestorm at the Forest Service

    Ralph Maughan

    Rocky Barker writes about the funding crisis at the Forest Service. Their budget is way down. It used to be kept up by big appropriations for timber cutting and forest fire fighting, but the timber lobby has gone away, and appropriations to fight fires are no longer a blank check. Barker says that no interest…

  • It could be another big forest fire year in much of the West

    Ralph Maughan

    Chance of big summer fires ‘significant’ Climate experts predict warmer, dry weather. By Mike Stark. Billings Gazette Staff post 1085

  • Ask Zimo: Officially, there are no grizzlies in Central Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    Pete Zimowsky, outdoor writer for the Idaho Statesman, deals with the persistant rumor that there are grizzly bears in Central Idaho. Ask Zimo: Officially, there are no grizzlies in Central Idaho. post 1084

  • Bison pushed back into Yellowstone

    Ralph Maughan

    Post 1083 Article in Billings Gazette. The Gazette article gives the standard line, meaning it doesn’t mention there are no cows near West Yellowstone for the bison to infect with brucellosis. Below is the story as seen by the Buffalo Field Campaign. “Livestock Interests Spin Lies to Public, Media; IBMP Agencies Again Break ‘Tolerance’ Agreement.’…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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