June 2009
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The headline should read “corn ethanol,” not biofuel- Despite the past, and continuing subsidies, ethanol made from corn produces little net energy and a lot of political conflict as it consumes a quarter of the country’s corn crop. Advanced biofuels might hold promise, especially those using bacteria to directly produce ethanol or other low carbon…
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Nevada wants to keep regulation out of federal hands for selfish reasons According to the Las Vegas Sun the battle over the huge mercury plume from the recently-closed (again) Jerritt Canyon mine is really over Nevada keeping control of regulating its gold mining industry. Closing mine part of bigger battle. State wants to keep feds…
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Domestic sheep DO transmit deadly disease to bighorn sheep. This weekend has turned out to be an interesting one in the world of the domestic sheep/bighorn sheep controversy. Rocky Barker reported on his blog that he had the infamous “study” that Marie Bulgin “missed” but it’s not the one at issue in the big story…
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This area hasn’t been grazed by cattle for many years- I took this photo in late May on Pocatello’s West Bench at the base of the Bannock Mountain Range. Because it is a mixture of city land and Forest Service and no maintained fences, it hasn’t been grazed by cattle or sheep for many years.…
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Homer Lee Wilkes withdraws- Obama pick to oversee forests withdraws. AP. Updated story. There had been some controversy over the nomination, and disappointment from conservationists.
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Report issued due to the 2008 spike in Greater Yellowstone grizzly deaths- Numerous methods are identified, but a smaller number give more “bank for the buck” (the buck being not so much money as political or cultural resistance). Yellowstone Mortality and Conflicts Reduction Report. IGBST. June 5, 2009 Note: I hope discussion of this doesn’t…
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I read this article a couple of weeks ago. Someone had slipped it beneath the office door and upon returning from lunch, I sat down and took the time to read it. The World at Gunpoint – Derrick Jensen, Orion Magazine Finally we get to the point. Those who come after, who inherit whatever’s left…
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Friends, We did our best, but these Foresters in Washington state are well-schooled in The Way of the Bureaucrat. Despite the sole known Washington wolf pack’s rendezvous site being at the best, most available water source for public land cattle on the unit, livestock described by Don Johnson as looking feeble and “like bait”, the Okanogan-Wenatchee National…