Politics

  • Rump congressional committee hears Endangered Species Act critics in Billings, MT

    Ralph Maughan

    Some Republican members of House Natural Resources Committee gather to attack ESA and EAJA- Congressional hearings are held in theory to help gather information to write legislation. Every standing committee of Congress has members of both parties in proportion to their numbers in the full House or Senate.  Many congressional hearings are not attended by…

  • Comment period extended on gray wolf delisting, Mexican wolf protection and expansion

    Ralph Maughan

    After many many complaints, comment period will run until Oct. 28- Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today extended the public comment period until October 28 on two proposed rules to remove the gray wolf (Canis lupus) from the List of Threatened and Endangered Species, while maintaining protection and expanding recovery efforts for the…

  • Survey reports AZ, NM residents strongly support Mexican wolf recovery

    Ralph Maughan

    Survey says elite public opinion on wolves in Southwest may differ greatly from average citizen’s- According to the results of a survey released by Defenders of Wildlife (see their news release below), Arizona and New Mexico citizens strongly support recovery of the Mexican wolf.  300 randomly selected registered voters in each state were interviewed by…

  • Department of Interior Puts Peer Review of National Wolf Delisting on Hold

    Ken Cole

    After the California Wolf Center posted a YouTube video of a phone interview with Dr. John Vucetich, who was blacklisted from being part of the peer review because he signed a letter that opposed the nationwide delisting of wolves, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has halted the selection of peer reviewers.  According to E&E…

  • Congress: Kill Wildlife Services’ Wildlife-Killing Budget

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a guest editorial by Wendy Keefover, Director of the Carnivore Protection Program at WildEarth Guardians- The New York Times editors largely got it right when they recently editorialized critically about the cruel work of a little known program within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that annually spends over $100 million to kill some…

  • Nez Perce Tribe and Idaho Rivers United Sue Forest Service

    Ralph Maughan

    Forest Service failed to enforce their regulations on megaloads- News release- BOISE — Idaho Rivers United and the Nez Perce Tribe filed a joint lawsuit in federal court in Boise late this afternoon in order to stop the movement of megaloads along U.S. Highway 12 through tribal lands and the Clearwater-Lochsa Wild and Scenic River…

  • Megaload violates terms of permit and breaks past blockade into the Wild and Scenic River Corridor

    Ralph Maughan

    Idaho State Police hold up traffic to get megaload ahead of protesters- U.S. Highway 12, Idaho. “Fighing Goliath” is an organization of local Highway 12 citizens trying to protect their property, lives, and beautiful outdoors from “Corporate Canada” and its enablers in Idaho government. They have a blog detailing what is going on. We took…

  • Idaho conservation group looks for legal ways to stop the illegal megaload

    Ralph Maughan

    What do you do when transport company is breaking federal law with state protection to haul giant machinery through Idaho to tar sands hell? It seems as though the Idaho and Montana state governments are working for Canada and the oil companies. Idaho citizens and the Nez Perce Tribe protests but they get arrested, rather…

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