May 2007

  • DOI Deputy Assistant Secretary Julie MacDonald resigns a week prior to her scheduled congressional testimony

    Ralph Maughan

    Accused by many of rewriting and manipulating scientific data on endangered species, the controversial MacDonald has resigned eight days before a Congressional oversight committee hearing on political interference by Bush Administration officials in scientific decisionmaking. Story from Science Blogs. Julie MacDonald quits Story from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Interior Official Who Censored Federal Scientists…

  • Catron County targets new wolf

    Ralph Maughan

    This is an attempt to remove yet another of the very endangered Mexican wolves who are now down to just 4 breeding pairs in the wild. Removal of this wolf would make it just 3 breeding pairs. Worse still, this female wolf is pregnant. Because the Mexican wolves were derived from just 8 wolves, (they…

  • Idaho quietly assumes control over grizzlies.

    Ralph Maughan

    A recovery program started in 1975 ended without fanfare Monday as Yellowstone’s grizzly bears were removed from the federal threatened species list. For most people, the major change is the maximum fine for shooting a grizzly bear. Read the rest: Idaho quietly assumes control over grizzlies. By Rocky Barker. Idaho Statesman. More: View of the…

  • "Call order" may shut down all groundwater pumping in Snake River upstream of Twin Falls

    Ralph Maughan

    Idaho groundwater pumpers could lose water. By Matt Christensen. Times-News writer. This is of huge importance in Idaho, politically, economically, environmentally. It began with “a call” for water from two of Idaho’s many trout farms. Most Western states follow the “prior appropriation doctrine” for water rights — the first persons to put the water “to…

  • Absence of losses to grizzlies prompts Defenders to spend more on proactive measures

    Ralph Maughan

    Because loss of livestock to grizzly bears has been so low, Defenders of Wildlife has free money to go further and act proactively. Here is a news release announcing this. Defenders of Wildlife Expands Proactive Predator Conflict Prevention Program. Grizzly compensation funds reallocated to minimize grizzly-related conflicts before they occur Statement by Jamie Rappaport Clark,…

  • Freudenthal's opposition to gas drilling in the Wyoming Range

    Ralph Maughan

    As gas wells spread like cancer across across the upper Green River basin, Wyoming’s governor is listening to public opinion and seems to be hardening his stance against the drive to drill the adjacent mountains on the Bridger-Teton National Forest.  Freudenthal skeptical of Range drilling. By The Associated Press post 1076

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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