Conservation
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End of year donations will keep Western Watersheds Project going strong ! WWP is funded by the financial contributions of our members, and without your help we could not carry out our critically important and successful work to protect and restore western watersheds and wildlife. Nothing speaks more clearly than a good photograph about why…
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Rocky Barker takes note : Two months before Obama’s inauguration, cattle ranchers declare a new ‘War on the West?’ This aggressive political posture in response to the prospect of change has been characteristic of livestock associations throughout the West since the beginning of their history. The survival of their influence, relative to the public’s interest…
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U.S. Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva has issued a report chronicling a partial list of the Bush Administration’s assault on protections of your public lands: A Report on the Bush Administration Assaults on Our National Parks, Forests and Public Lands A couple examples of interest to Yellowstone : Greatest Slaughter of Bison in the United States…
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Restoring old mining claims to the public- Old mining claims have a nasty tendency to become remote, jarring, difficult-to-service trophy homes. For years the Trust for Public Lands has helped move old mining claims (federal lands that were privatized and perhaps mined at one time) back into the public estate. John Miller of the Associated…
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The MSM has now noticed this decision. There is a long AP article today (9-29) in the Idaho Statesman. Civil rights case over Idaho grazing can advance. By John Miller – Associated Press Writer The 9th Circuit has affirmed an Idaho federal district judge’s decision that individuals of the 5 member Idaho Land Board, including…
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Rocky Barker collects some quotes from candidate politicians and says : Idaho Republicans going green in red state – Idaho Statesman The League of Conservation Voters collects Idaho politicians’ voting records and says : Senator State 110th, 1st session Score Larry Craig (REP) ID 13% Mike Crapo (REP) ID 13% Representative District 110th, 1st session…
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Rocky Barker gives an account of the divergent views expressed at a recent panel in Boise about how to take on environmental challenges in the West. Idaho moves the ball forward on environmental policy – Letters from the West The post gives a few quotes that are quite representative of the different models for conservation…
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With all of the technology and busy parents trying to keep up with this rat-race economy, it can be really easy to forget how much our kids need to be outside enjoying the natural world : Leave no child inside – Missoula Independent Online It shouldn’t take a rocket-scientist to tell us that outside is…