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  • Obama Stuns with Forest Service Nominee

    Ralph Maughan

    Homer Wilkes, not what conservationists hoped for- We ran this news earlier, but now David Frey at New West has a comprehensive article on the nomination. HOMER WHO? Obama Stuns with Forest Service Nominee. “With little forest credentials, is Wilkes the right man to oversee the Forest Service?” By David Frey. New West.

  • Pressure from ag interests halts reading of "Omnivoire's Dilemma" at Washington State University?

    Ralph Maughan

    Pathbreaking book about agri-business dropped from Freshmen Reading program- Wazoo (Washington State University in Pullman) has a common reading program every year for freshmen. This is a growing practice at universities, but Michael Pollan’s look at how our food is produced in an unsustainable manner (oil and corn) seems to have been too controversial for…

  • Hayes is finally confirmed to number two Interior Post

    Ralph Maughan

    Some concessions to Robert Bennett (R-Utah) on oil and gas leases was needed- Here is the story. Senate GOP releases hold on Interior nominee. Politico. Salazar probably had to agree to look into offering tghe oil and gas leases next to the national parks that the courts and he had killed. Grrrrr. The New York…

  • Take a hammer to the 1872 Mining Act

    Ralph Maughan

    “The 137-year-old law is a legacy of a bygone era in the West” Folks have been trying to change this law my entire life and long before that. Will this be the year? If so, how much can it be changed? The Oregonian thinks change is now politically possible. The 1872 Act has long been…

  • Obama’s EPA clears 42 of 48 New Mountaintop Removal Mining Permits

    Brian Ertz

    Back East, things aren’t looking much better for the environment- See below Obama’s EPA clears 42 of 48 New Mountaintop Removal Mining Permits CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Obama administration has cleared more than three-dozen new mountaintop removal permits for issuance by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, drawing quick criticism from environmental groups who had hoped…

  • NYT uses Boise to illustrate the recessionary spiral and its aftermath

    Ralph Maughan

    The importance of this feature article is how irrelevant the governor and the rural dominated legislature are to the economic well being of most Idahoans- Free Fall’s Over, but Where Are We Landing? By Peter S. Goodman. New York Times. This article is a bit unusual for this blog, but a continuing theme here is…

  • Obama Nominates Superfund Polluter Lawyer To Run DOJ Environment Division

    Brian Ertz

    “Meet the new boss..same as the old boss” ?  Many of us hoped that with a new Department of Justice (DOJ), many of the most contentious and important environmental disputes governing environmental issues now held in the courts might be settled with a greater regard for this nation’s existing  environmental laws – that’d mean progress.…

  • Bogus BLM bid case: Feds worry jury might buy 'monkey-wrencher' theme

    Ralph Maughan

    Prosecutors ask federal court to block climate-change defense- Prosecutor is afraid of a jury. By Patty Henetz. The Salt Lake Tribune

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Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

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