September 2008
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Flathead Basin Commission hears of new coal mine. By Heidi Desch. Hungry Horse News. Link to North Fork Landowners’ Association. Photos and new information about mining in the headwaters of the Flathead. – – – – – Montana folks and politicians are very nervous about all this planned heavy activity (huge mountain removing mines) in…
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Idaho and Montana are still doing “wolf weeklies” or bi-weeklies to inform citizens. Wyoming has done zip since June. Montana Wolf Weekly. Aug. 23-29, 2008. This is a publication of Montana Dept. of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks. These state reports are mostly about killing wolves for alleged attacks on livestock. I’m worried what the final…
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This is a long feature article in the Missoula Independent. Bigger Game By Patrick Klemz
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They don’t do anything to restore the salmon runs, but they show up for photos when the small run of salmon finally makes it past Stanley, Idaho. View of the Idaho Mountain Express: photo-op environmentalism.
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Idaho’s livestock politicians is as regressive as Montana about bison leaving Yellowstone, but a bison bull has wandered into Idaho near Henry’s Lake, and they are out to kill him. The Buffalo Field Campaign wants to document what goes on to give it some media attention. Buffalo Field Campaign mobilizes to protect bison in Island…
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This is a revised version of an earlier story. Here is the news release from the Western Watersheds Project. Rocky Barker also discusses it in his recent blog. BLM Report On The Murphy Complex Wild Fire Shows That Grazing Has Little Effect On Fire Behavior. Idaho BLM has released a long awaited Report on the…
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There is now a large wolf pack near Sandpoint, Idaho, right up against the B.C. border. Hopefully they will expand and restore some of wolf popuation around Creston, Rossland and Nelson, B.C. where bad provincial policies have eliminated wolves. Story. Boundary County residents glimpse pack of 14 wolves. By Gwen Albers. Hagadone News Network Note:…
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Montana officially loses its brucellosis free status. Billings Gazette. By Matthew Brown. AP This is entirely a problem of their own making, or I just I should say the Montana Stockgrowers Association, who bulldozed away efforts to split the state into two zone when it came to brucellosis. It’s hard to have sympathy when such…