Politics
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Yellowstone Bison *SPECIAL ALERT! November 18, 2013 The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will be considering a bill this week that will have a devastating impact on western public lands, native wildlife and especially wild buffalo. The “Grazing Improvement Act,” S. 258, is a nightmare for wild buffalo. As many of you already know,…
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Untabulated comments overwhelmingly opposed hunt- More were just tossed away- One of the most consistent characteristics of right wing movements is a distaste for democracy. From the beginning with Edmund Burke (1729-1797) who invented the word “conservatism,” is the argument that some small elite knows better than the public. Whether based on land ownership or…
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Two-hundred and fifty million acres of public lands need your help. The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resourcesis poised to move the so-calledGrazing Improvement Act of 2013 (S. 258) out to the floor, legitimizing this bad idea that is nothing more than an attempt to exclude conservation interests from public lands grazing management. If enacted, this…
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This memo shows that Wildlife Service not only sees that its job is to work for ranchers, not the general public, but that they view public oversight to be a major problem. USDA wolf depredation investigation memo pdf file – – – – – – – Note that we received this memo as a pdf file…
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The Facebook photo has gone viral. It drips with symbolic hostility and one actually dead wolf. Now the photo has been taken down on Facebook, but you can see it many places in case it hasn’t already been emailed to you. We received a half dozen or so by email. Our experience is hardly unique.…
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A case of the guilty investigating the effects of their crime? When the House Republicans shut down the “non-essential” services of the U.S. government by failing to pass neither a budget, nor a continuing resolution by Oct. 1, the national parks closed. They had no money to operate. During the shutdown process, the Service evacuated…
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What’s a good news topic when we have a knife at our throats? This week ended, maybe for just a couple months. one of the gravest threats in American history. Many who superficially follow politics obviously saw the engineered near default on the public debt of the United States as politics as usual. Others called it “partisan…
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WOLF KILLING MAKES MOCKERY OF NORTH AMERICAN MODEL OF WILDLIFE CONSERVATION Many state wildlife agencies and organizations promote the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAMWC) as a guiding philosophy for management. There are seven major themes to the model. Despite the promotion of NAMWC, there are many apparent contradictions between the ideal and how…