Activism

  • ODFW vs. Wildlife Services on who determines if a wolf killed the cow.

    Ken Cole

    There is a fight going on in Oregon between wolf advocates and ranchers.  Nothing new right? Well, this one has a twist.  As it stands now, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) biologists are who make the determinations as to whether a wolf is responsible for killing livestock or not.  Ranchers don’t like that…

  • Obama’s big dirty oil test

    Ralph Maughan

    It’s whether he turns down the Keystone XL pipeline- Exploiting the tar sands of Alberta is so bad that famous NASA climatologist James Hansen said that if they are fully exploited for their oil deposits, “it is essentially game over” for the planet. So will he make nice with the oil companies and the Republicans…

  • Project Green Scissors: How about cutting environmentally damaging government programs?

    Ralph Maughan

    Environmentally destructive programs identified by activists from the left and the right- Viewpoint: Spending Cuts Are Great When the Spending Is Stupid. By Michael Grunwald . Time Magazine This proposal is being made by the deficit-hawk Taxpayers for Common Sense, free-market Heartland Institute, the environmental group Friends of the Earth, and consumer watchdog Public Citizen.

  • The Politics of Managing Livestock on Public Lands

    Brian Ertz

    Mike Hudak interviews Don Oman, a 35-year veteran of the U.S. Forest Service, about his experience working with the agency as a part of Hudak’s series of interviews compiled for Western Turf Wars: The Politics of Public Lands Ranching Don Oman, a 35-year veteran of the U.S. Forest Service explains how political pressure initiated by ranchers…

  • Imperial Oil announces what amounts to abandonment of Highway 12 for megaloads!

    Ralph Maughan

    Montana judge’s ruling saves Lochsa River and local Idaho and Montana residents- Imperial Oil, Canadian spawn of ExxonMobil has announced they are going to try to break down the size of their tar sands-bound megaloads so that they won’t have to use narrow, winding, scenic U.S. Highway 12 through North Central Idaho and then Montana.…

  • DeChristopher sentence spurs outraged charges of Utah hypocrisy (updated)

    Ralph Maughan

    DeChristopher and Noel, a tale of two crimes. Salt Lake Tribune. This is about the difference in the sentence given DeChristopher versus a notorious Utah plunderer of historical antiquities on public lands. DeChristopher sentence riles protesters. 26 arrested. By Derek P. Jensen. The Salt Lake Tribune – – – – Added July 28 and 29,…

  • Tim DeChristopher and the feds (updated)

    Ralph Maughan

    Peaceful disruptor of BLM oil auction to be sentenced today by our ExxonMobil government- Bill Mckibben opines on today’s sentencing of Tim DeChristopher by a government that couldn’t find a single corrupt banker after they just about destroyed the economy back in 2008. Tim DeChristopher and the feds. By Bill Mckibben.  The Salt Lake Tribune.…

  • Montana judge rules against transport of giant oilfield equipment

    Ralph Maughan

    Judge stops transport of megaloads through Western Montana- Great news!  Especially after all the elected U. S. officials from governors to the White House seem to have sold out. Montana judge rules against transport of giant oilfield equipment. Victory for campaigners as decision delivers a new setback to the efforts of Alberta tar sands. By…

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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.”

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