November 2009

  • Americans flock to the nation's "best idea"

    Ralph Maughan

    Record Number of visits to Yellowstone Park in 2009- This has been in the news the last couple days. Rocky Barker blogged today about it, tying it to the recent popular PBS television film, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.”  Here is Barker’s blog in the Idaho Statesman. Americans flock to nation’s “best idea.” My…

  • The confessions of an off-road-vehicle outlaw

    Ralph Maughan

    He had a change of heart when other off-roaders ruined his elk hunt- The confessions of an off-road-vehicle outlaw. By Garrett Veneklasen. Op-ed in the Salt Lake Tribune. Writers on the Range.

  • Wyoming Game and Fish sets wildlife guidelines for wind developers

    Ralph Maughan

    Wyo. sets wildlife guidelines for wind developers. By Matt Joyce. Associated Press.

  • Another Western Watersheds Project victory in Arizona

    Ralph Maughan

    Western Watersheds Project Wins Summary Judgment on the 100,000 acre Byner Complex Allotments. BLM- This no “family ranch” but a spin-off of Freeport-McMoRan mining. Here is the WWP’s news release on the victory for the American people ♦Western Watersheds Project’s Arizona Office has been granted Summary Judgment byAdministrative Law Judge Harvey C. Sweitzer in a…

  • Green Valley Dam could fail. Army Corps working hard to shore up dam above it.

    Ralph Maughan

    This might sound a little confusing, but apparently the way to reduce the threat of the Green Valley Dam failing after heavy rains is to shore up the Howard Hanson Dam upstream. The article says this will reduce the chances of Green Valley failing to 1 in 25 this winter. A failure would flood a…

  • Senate Democrats advance climate bill without GOP

    Ralph Maughan

    Republicans boycotted the committee vote, so the Democrats passed the bill without them, 10 to 1- What the Democrats did is what you might expect, but in the past the Democrats have said, “Oh we need some bipartisanship,” when it is clear the minority at present wants nothing to do with bipartisanship. I guess no…

  • Record returns for sockeye salmon in Sawtooth Valley

    Ralph Maughan

    833 sockeye made the trip back to the Sawtooth Valley from the ocean this year- This is a great success from the not too distant past when only one salmon returned — “Lonesum Larry” Record sockeye salmon return. By Jon Duval. Idaho Mountain Express Staff Writer

  • The difference grazing cattle makes at the end of the season

    Ralph Maughan

    Comparison of two sites, Nov. 4, 2009, in the Mink Creek drainage south of Pocatello, Idaho- Mink Creek is a popular recreation area on the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, just south of Pocatello, Idaho. The first 3-4 miles have no livestock grazing. As the drainage gains slowly in elevation, it is grazed from about June 1…

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Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

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