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  • Developing the Carrizo Plain

    Brian Ertz

    Another Solar Development, Another Lost Landscape ? Chris Clarke gives a remarkable account of another landscape that has found its way into the cross-hairs of Solar Developers and Big Green, and of the locals’ abiding love for the land: Solar Energy Development in the Carrizo Plain Draws Lawsuits – KCET – The Back Forty It’s…

  • Conservationists. Half a win; half a loss on National Elk Refuge elk feeding

    Ralph Maughan

    Appeals courts says elk feeding is not illegal, but risky- This issue is closely related to the Wyoming wolf plan story because Wyoming just loves feeding elk, and dragging along the federal government to feed them too Conservation groups appealed the loss in their effort to stop elk and bison feeding on the National Elk…

  • Mike Simpson’s “extinction bill” defeated by House Democrats plus some Republicans

    Ralph Maughan

    Effort by Idaho Republican to cut all new endangered species listings is stripped out of the critical 2012 Interior Budget Bill- Dicks’ amendment to DOI Appropriations bill in the House passes!! House Appropriations subcommitte chair Mike Simpson of Eastern Idaho figured he had it all lined up to abolish the listing of endangered species by…

  • Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbits Breeding For First Time In A Decade

    Brian Ertz

    Although Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbits are genetically extinct, the US Fish and Wildlife Service approved interbreeding with Idaho Pygmy Rabbits, which the Obama Administration claims is “not warranted” for ESA protection, in order to maintain as much Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit lineage as is possible. Previous attempts to release Pygmy Rabbits have failed.  They’ve all just…

  • Interior Appropriations bill at odds with American values

    Ralph Maughan

    Bill to stop listing of new endangered species, mine the Grand Canyon, and let diseased sheep kill off our bighorns is Un-American- IMO, House Republicans are not patriots, nor do they care about wildlife or the future of our environment (except maybe that of the top 2%). Ralph Maughan The Arizona Republic opines on the…

  • U.S. government will add whitebark pine to endangered species list

    Ralph Maughan

    Critical high altitude pine has been nearly wiped out by beetles, fire, blister rust- These trees with fat rich nuts are already getting federal government attention, but mortality is even worse than thought. The large majority of whitebark grow on U.S. public lands. The work will concentrate on protecting existing stands using pheromones to confuse…

  • Gutting the Endangered Species Act.

    Ken Cole

    Fiscal Year 2012 – House Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill – Part 2 In an another example of paying for tax cuts to billionaires with deregulation and spending cuts, the House Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill released yesterday, which limits judicial review of future wolf delisting rules in Wyoming and the Western Great Lakes, would also effectively gut the…

  • New Idaho wolf hunt likely to propose no limit on number of wolves killed

    Ralph Maughan

    No quotas (limits) are expected for hunt except along part of the Idaho/Montana border- Idaho to offer looser wolf hunt rules. By John Miller and Matthew Brown. Associated Press Ever since Butch Otter became Idaho’s governor, it was clear to me and the conservation groups that understand Idaho politics that at some point this would…

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