The Wildlife News

January 16, 2009

  • Don’t Blame Mother Nature for the airplane crash

    Ralph Maughan

    Human activity is indirectly adding large birds to skies near airports- Don’t Blame Mother Nature for the Crash. The editors. 2 articles. New York Times

  • Looks like Bush/Kempthorne gutting of ESA will be reversed

    Ralph Maughan

    Lawsuits and congressional action are likely to void the gutting of section 7 of ESA- This has already been reported in the comments on one of the threads here;  but for everyone this is what has happened. California filed suit to overturn the Bush/Kempthorne diminishment of section 7 consultation. Congress is right now moving to…

  • Columbia River pollutants at unacceptable levels, EPA says

    Ralph Maughan

    EPA says Columbia River pollution levels “unacceptable risk to people, fish and wildife- For those not familiar, the Columbia River is the major river of the Pacific Northwest. It and its tributaries drain almost all of Idaho, and Washington states, and western Montana. . . . much of Oregon and British Columbia too, plus the…

  • Ken Salazar promises reform at Interior Department

    Ralph Maughan

    Salazar’s hearing before Senate Committe- Sounds like any generic, old school Western Democrat that has been in this “saddle” many times before- Ken Salazar promises reform at Interior Department. LA Times. By Jim Tankersley Barack Obama criticized — again — over pick of Ken Salazar as Interior secretary. By Pete Thomas. LA Times. I should…

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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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