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  • House backs Hell's Canyon sheep bill

    Ken Cole

    Now it’s up to the Governor. This bill is not just going to affect bighorn sheep in Hell’s Canyon, it affects bighorn sheep throughout the state. It is political game management which can be changed at the whim of livestock industry pressure. It does not address important issues regarding disease transmission and basically writes off…

  • Midvale residents say Gov. Otter has abandoned rural Idaho

    Ken Cole

    Otter pushes for road money, but residents gripe about feds, wild sheep Here in Idaho the legislature has gone into overtime because Governor Otter vetoed 35 appropriation bills over the course of a few days because he wants the legislature to raise gas taxes for road construction projects. They are not complying. Each month Governor…

  • Senate OKs new bill to help resolve sheep conflict

    Ken Cole

    Will this save the collaborative group? The new bill, SB1232, passed the Senate but will it save the Bighorn Sheep Domestic Sheep Advisory Group? Some of the members of the advisory group are saying the new bill interferes with what the group was formed to do and is still bad for bighorn sheep. Will the…

  • Idaho wildlife refuges, hatcheries get stimulus

    Ralph Maughan

    Salazar has annonced $275,000,000 (275-million) of the stimulus money for National Wildlife Refuges and fish hatcheries. It’s good news that $1.7 million went to Idaho. Over a million of it went to a fish hatchery built to replace spawning beds destroyed by the Dvorshak Reservoir on the North Fork of the Clearwater. Montana got $3-million.…

  • The Return of Citizen King

    Ralph Maughan

    Long time Idaho resident Carole King is in Washington pushing for passage of the most ambitious wilderness bill, NREPA- The Return of Citizen King. By Todd Wilkinson. Huffington Post.

  • Swine Flu Outbreak — Nature Biting Back at Industrial Animal Production?

    Ralph Maughan

    Mexican CAFOs are an excellent mixing bowl for new flu viruses- Well it looks like we’re in for some fun and games with a novel strain of influenza. Hopefully it won’t kill too many of us, and maybe a lesson will be learned (don’t count on either). There is a lengthy article on this in…

  • Otter vetoes bill that called for killing bighorns

    Ken Cole

    The Governor has vetoed SB1175 leaving SB1232 in its place. Presumably SB1232 will pass the legislature and the Governor will sign it into law. How much valuable time has been spent on this issue by the legislature, state and Federal agencies, interest groups and the Governor? Is this the best use of time in this…

  • A modest reversal of Bush's last-minute anti-ESA regulations is advancing

    Ralph Maughan

    It’s possible the OMB might strengthen this weak tweak of the awful Bush rules- Interior sends revised endangered species rule to OMB. By Allison Winter. Greenwire in the New York Times

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