October 2007
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The Dallas News doesn’t like the idea. Keep Mountains Public. Dallas News. Neither does the San Antonio Express. Christmas Mountains sale should be delayed. Proponents of the sale have drummed up a phony Second Amendment argument to justify not selling the mountains to the National Park Service to add to Big Bend National Park. Of…
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The U.S. House of Representative may be close to passing long overdue reforms to the 1872 mining law. Many in the Boise, Idaho area [Treasure Valley] are hoping for changes that will stop the proposed pit mines Canadian mining companies want to excavate upstream at Atlanta, Idaho and other places in the central Idaho mountains.…
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This is a moderately good overview of the general wolf situation and history of wolves in Montana from the 1980s. Wolf shot; animal had killed cattle. By Michael Jamison of the Missoulian. On the other hand, whoever wrote the headline for Jamison’s story and the first three paragraphs (they are in boldface) was generally uniformed…
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Video of the condition of Current Creek in the Owyhee.
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This guy set out an illegal poison for skunks and raccons. Coyotes ate the poisoned skunks and raccoons and died. Eagles ate the dead coyotes and died. It was kind of like 1920. He was fined for the value of the eagles; nothing about the use of an illegal poison. Man told to pay $15K…
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This proposal for yet another dam on the Bear River stirred up unpreceded opposition in southeast Idaho. Utility rescinds plans to build dam for southeast Idaho. Times News
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Wyoming’s new US senator John Barrasso has picked up one of the priorities of the late Sen. Craig Thomas, R-Wyo. It would stop oil and gas leasing in all of the 100 mile long Wyoming Range and buy back those leases already issued. Senaror Barrasso brings bill to protect Wyoming Range. By Noelle Straub. Billings…
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California fires get caught up in global warming debate. By Rocky Barker. The same scientist who attributes the back-to-back big fire seasons in Idaho and the Northern Rockies as signs of human-induced climate change says the fires in California are not.