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Brian Ertz

  • Senators push to allow guns in national parks

    Brian Ertz

    Almost half the Senate pushes to allow firearms into national parks. Senators push to allow guns in national parks BY PETE ZIMOWSY of the Idaho Statesman Here’s the editorial in the New York Times (registeration required) : Keeping Guns Out of the Parks It looks like a political move more than anything ~ or pulling…

  • Bush Administration Abandons Effort to Undercut National Forest Protections

    Brian Ertz

    It looks like the horrible 2005 Bush rule governing forest management is a relic of the past. Monday, the government filed a motion to dismiss its appeal of a court decision striking down the Bush rule. Bush Administration Abandons Effort to Undercut National Forest Protections In memoriam: Bush Administration tries again with new Forest Service…

  • Wild Bison: BFC Update from the Field 1/10/08

    Brian Ertz

    Today’s Buffalo Field Campaign Update from the Field features a compelling account of BFC’s patrol coming upon a buffalo injured by a collision with the sheriff’s vehicle and the group’s introspective struggle with how to best proceed. When we returned, she had not moved. Her condition had not seemed to change. Patrols radioed in to…

  • Idaho: 'The battle between wild and domestic sheep has only just begun'

    Brian Ertz

    The Times-News has a story highlighting some history concerning bighorn sheep in southern Idaho. Hunting for history: The return of the southern Idaho bighorn sheep By Ron Yates Stories concerning bighorn sheep have focused on the majestic animals’ past. But recent reports of developments concerning their management, reported in real time, have prompted positive results…

  • [Blaine County] Locals denounce [Idaho] state’s wolf plan

    Brian Ertz

    Last night, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game held it’s Idaho Wolf Population Management “Open House” followed by a hearing conducted by Blaine County commissioners in Hailey Idaho. For wolf advocates in attendance this night proved to be a remarkably uplifting experience. A diverse group of wolf advocates, hunters, and citizens of Blaine County…

  • Resisting Delisting – Idaho Wolves & Livestock's Influence

    Brian Ertz

  • IDFG Wolf Plan public meeting – Jerome

    Brian Ertz

    The first in a series of Idaho Department of Fish & Game public meetings on Idaho’s Wolf Management Plan took place in Jerome last night. The plan, IDFG maintains, is the result of a series of stakeholders’ meetings that included Livestock interests, sporting interests – including Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, and conservation interests represented…

  • IDFG announces public meetings on Idaho Wolf Management Plan

    Brian Ertz

    UPDATE – The hours for the hearing in Jerome ID have changed to 6 – 9 PM. Also note that the current understanding is that no verbal comments are going to be taken at these meetings. Originally, a meeting in Boise was set for this Thursday in Boise from 5 – 8 pm – announcement…

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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

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