April 2009
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Stimulus package gives the national parks a rare pot of money- Despite how Americans love their national parks, this rarely translates into appropriations. While an big increase in appropriations is still needed, this is a significant event, which, according to the article, will also create many jobs. National parks to get $750 million today. By…
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Let’s hope they don’t find them and the wolves make it to the legal safety of Colorado- Officials hunt for pair of wolves south of Casper. Casper Star Tribune.
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Mostly likely there will be events near you. One billion expected to celebrate Earth Day. CNN
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Anti-Wolf Group Spreads Message in Idaho Falls. By Danielle Grant, Local News 8 Reporter
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A sad fact is that public land livestock grazing is so pervasive out west (around 300 million acres of public land) that most people have become accustomed to the image of livestock degraded landscapes and have little idea what might be. Recently, WWP received a report dated July 18, 2007 from the Idaho Department of…
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Putting sun-powered electrical generation in the sunny desert seems like a natural, except deserts are dry- Desert clash in West over solar potential, water. By Rita Beamish. Associated Press Writer
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NYT Times thinks so. It should be obvious to everyone- That’s what we need, more urban sprawl on the front range of the Rockies in Colorado; and the water to fuel it will by pumped in from far away — SW Wyoming — the upper Green River. This kind of thinking is so pre-recession, and…
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Governor “Butch” Otter is upset that the Idaho legislature won’t increase revenue for state highways and has reacted by vetoing 10 bills. One of those bills on the chop block, Senate Bill No. 1177, would have slipped $200,000 into the Depredation Control Fund : In accordance with the provisions of Section 36111(c), Idaho Code, the…