April 2009

  • PEER says . . . Plight Of Whistleblowers Shows No Improvement

    Ralph Maughan

    Despite Obama’s pledge, Federal Employees Face Blackballing and Career Derailment for Reporting Problems- Presidents have to follow up on executive orders like the one Obama made, and entrenched agency people know that most Presidents will lack the time or interest to do it. Story from the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Ironically, “States Strengthen Whistleblower…

  • Good news: Drilling off Alaska can't proceed without further environmental review

    Ralph Maughan

    Appeals panel rules that the Interior Department didn’t adequately analyze a Bush administration plan to auction off leases in the Arctic seas- Drilling off Alaska can’t proceed without further environmental review. By James Oliphant and Kim Murphy. LA Times. An off-shore oil spill into the Arctic Ocean would be a terrible disaster.

  • WWP Blog feed is back up

    Ralph Maughan

    Many of you might have noticed that the Western Watersheds Project feed was down for a couple months. It is now fixed and located in about the middle of the right-hand column.

  • Consumption Dwarfs Population as Main Environmental Threat

    Brian Ertz

    I’ve found that it’s fashionable among environmentally sympathetic folk in private gatherings to spark up conversation about the the publicly unspeakable “greatest threat” to the natural world : Overpopulation.   Inevitable, right ?.. trends suggest otherwise. More people means more consumption, right ? not necessarily. Biggest environmental threat, right ?.. turns out, no.  Fred Pearce…

  • Wolves nail some lambs in Oregon

    Ralph Maughan

    First confirmed loss of livestock in Oregon has livestock association upset- Although no wolf packs are confirmed yet in Oregon, it looks like at least one is present despite years of reports and illegal shootings of lone wolves. The usual suspects are agitating for the removal of these wolves. Wolves kill 23 lambs on Oregon…

  • The War on Predators

    Brian Ertz

    Why Fish and Game Agencies Can’t Manage Predators George Wuerther writes an insightful piece about Fish & Game departments failure to manage predator species like other wildlife across the country. The War on Predators – Counterpunch

  • Researchers blame grizzly deaths on hunters, climate change

    Ralph Maughan

    Grizzlies are expanding their range due to the death of whitebark pine and they increasingly get shot- Researchers blame grizzly deaths on hunters, climate change. By Matthew Brown. Associated Press Fortunately the evidence seems to be that their population around Yellowstone is still growing.

  • Lawyers ask judge to split sweeping grazing suit

    Brian Ertz

    This morning arguments were heard in federal court concerning a Justice Department’s motion to split up WWP’s giant (over 25 million acre) BLM lawsuit into several district courts rather than to have one judge hear the case. Lawyers ask judge to split sweeping grazing suit – Todd Dvorak, Associated Press Laird Lucas, WWP’s lawyer and…

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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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