September 2008
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High Country News (HCN) has produced a number of interesting articles on the 2008 election in the West (they always do). HCN focuses on the election as it affects wildlife, recreation, energy, water — the truly Western issues. Winning the West ’08. High Country News.
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Talk about bad news, if true. Some kind of geoengineering would the only hope. Bad Sign For Global Warming: Thawing Permafrost Holds Vast Carbon Pool. ScienceDaily.
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Did Idaho’s short term governor Jim Risch produce a compromise that finally protected most of Idaho’s 9-million acres of roadless area? Roger Phillips of the Idaho Statesman thinks so. Phillips: Groups work together to protect 9 million acres. Idaho Statesman. By Roger Phillips – – – – – Some earlier stories in this forum on…
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This won’t impress most of that fraction of hunters who have decided that wolves have killed off the elk populations of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, but most years I have put up articles like this. From the Missoulian. Montana Elk, deer prospects look good this year. By Michael Jamison.
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As Arctic Sea Ice Melts, Experts Expect New Low. New York Times. After a harder than usual winter in 2007-8, climate change skeptics were hailing the winter refreezing of the Arctic Ocean, and even suggesting global cooling was underway because there were not enough sunspots. . . as though ice shelves thousands of years old…
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We have talked a lot about knapweed on this forum because of its negative consequences for wildlife habitat. Biocontrol has been pushed as an alternative to herbicides, but this is bad news. “ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2008) — Biocontrol agents, such as insects, are often released outside of their native ranges to control invasive plants.” Read…
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Yellowstone numbers strong for August. By Cory Hatch, Jackson Hole News and Guide. The bad economy and high gas prices have not reduced visits to Yellowstone.
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Here’s a fun story. With homeowner in doghouse, bobcats move in. LA Times.