Brian Ertz
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Another great article by George Wuerthner: Wolves and Oil – NewWest Just as the financial interests of the judges in the Gulf Coast region may distort and bias their ability to make fair judicial decisions regarding issues surrounding the oil industry, the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks agency has a similar financial conflict…
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I recently attended a gathering of activists engaged in curtailing CAFOs/Feedlots and their many crimes against our common water and air. With the success of California activists at bringing health and environmental regulation to the massive feedlots in their state, many other western states not so apt to test the water or otherwise regulate are…
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Groups Request End to Trapping & Snaring in Mexican Wolf Habitat in NM 14 Mexican Wolves have Been Trapped by Private Trappers – Press Release – WildEarth Guardians Santa Fe, NM. Today, WildEarth Guardians, the Sierra Club, and Southwest Environmental Center petitioned federal agencies and requested an emergency halt to all trapping and snaring on…
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Two Contrasting Perspectives on the Collaborative Conservation Model George Wuerthner continues his thoughtful critique of the collaborative process by illustrating a stark distinction between the act of “collaboration” and the art of “negotiation”: Perils of Collaboration – George Wuerthner, Counterpunch Rocky Barker gives voice to the pro-collaborative perspective, suggesting if collaboratives aren’t nourished with passage…
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Scientists & Conservation Groups: Time for Salazar to step down Clinton-Era Secretary Blasts Interior; Scientists Say Salazar Should Quit featured in the New York Times Read the letter The Gulf Coast disaster is a cataclysmic failure. It’s a failure of insatiable industrial greed. But to leave it at that – to blame BP and demand…
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George Wuerthner responds to anti-wolf claims and asks wildlife managers to consider the ecosystem, the whole community of life, in assessing wolves’ influence in the west: The West needs more, not fewer, wolves – Missoulian, Guest Column – June 7, 2010 : Despite the dire predictions from hunter advocacy groups that wolves are “destroying” elk…
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It’s that season (again) ! Bighead clover in Artemisia rigida sites (click for larger picture).