Politics

  • Oregon legislature fails to resurrect hunting practice banned by Oregon voters in 1994- Cougar hunting bill dies in Senate committee. Ashland Daily Tidings. Cougar hunting interests say they will try again in 2012.

  • A spot on Editorial from the LA Times: In the 2012 campaign, environmentalists don’t matter – LA Times Editorial Shortly after his party’s “shellacking” in the midterm election, President Obama ordered government agencies to ensure that new regulations took economic growth into consideration and that old ones be revoked if they “stifle job creation or make our economy…

  • Turf War or Legitimate Concern ? Earlier, we took a look at a recent settlement struck between the Interior Department and WildEarth Guardians that seeks to clear the logjam with species listings under the Endangered Species Act. The settlement would ask the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to make up or down determinations on a…

  • Credit to two local citizens who have taken on the world’s most profitable corporation, oil octopus Exxon-Mobil and others- Ah, some credit to two average folks fighting the international oil companies to try to save the economy, scenery, fish and wildlife of the area around U.S. Highway 12. Idaho megaload foes win Dalton Open Government…

  • Park County, Montana judge issues a temporary restraining order to prevent bison from roaming Gardiner Basin– This means trouble for the bison just released from the pens on the north boundary of Yellowstone Park. I see they are still playing the brucellosis card and the new Old West favorite, We’re scared of the animals!! Park…

  • The list of species the federal government has been more or less forced to consider for ESA protection has been growing longer and longer over the years, and yet it acts very slowly, complaining that species are being added at too fast a rate. Much of the agency’s tiny budget was eaten up responding to…

  • Kill order, called “retribution”- Because there are not many wolves in Oregon, this is a big deal. The pack has 10-14 members.  There was one other wolf pack known on the Oregon/Washington state border in 2010 — the Wenaha Pack. It might have 6 members.  USFWS has ordered capturing and “euthanizing two un-collared sub-adults from…

  • Long time wildlife foe, Pearce spreading lies about protecting lizard and jobs- Politics and reality clash in New Mexico. Posted on May 1, 2011 by Bob Berwyn. Summit County Citizens Voice. Although he was out of office for a couple years, newly elected Pearce (R-US Rep)  is up to his old tricks, made meaner for…

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