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  • Interior Department opening Colorado's North Park to gas and oil drilling

    Ralph Maughan

    “Certainly, if we want to supply some of our domestic energy needs, drilling is going to occur in places like this,” BLM spokesman Interior Department opening Colorado’s North Park to gas and oil drilling. By Bruce Finley. The Denver Post I can already see that “we” are going to get blamed for the Gulf of…

  • California utility plows ahead with midsize solar

    Ralph Maughan

    PG and E to install 500 megawatts of solar that doesn’t require transmission lines- Finally, doing solar electricity the right way. It’s called “distributed power generation” as opposed to centralized generation. The solar cells will go on the vast rooftops of malls, and office complexes (or adjacent to them) in California. After spending over 20…

  • Southern Utah road battle turns into fight over records

    Ralph Maughan

    Southern Utah county hides behind huge records request fee to keep citizens in the dark over efforts to build roads all over the public lands- My hope is this county of inbred idiots keeps losing and wasting money until the public is totally outraged Kane road battle turns into fight over records. By Mark Havnes.…

  • Marvel pays $250 ticket to BLM. Public grazing groups try to make it into a scandal

    Ralph Maughan

    This has been very minor news, but the Idaho Cattle Association and Farm Bureau have been trying to pump it into a story- They haven’t had much success, and today in the Idaho State Journal, columnist Michael H. O’Donnell slapped the livestock interests again. Best of all he relates it to the Johnson County War,…

  • Lawsuit Settled over grazing in Sonoran Desert National Monument

    Ralph Maughan

    Joint news release by the BLM and Western Watersheds Project- This is a victory for WWPs Arizona Office in Tucson. NEWS RESEASE (PHOENIX, AZ)—The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and Western Watersheds Projects announced today settlement of a federal lawsuit involving the Sonoran Desert National Monument southwest of Phoenix, Arizona.…

  • More on the injustice of the tiny federal grazing fees

    Ralph Maughan

    These are doubly unjust compared to what the rest of us pay- These data are from the High Country News blog, Goat.  Cows vs. RATs. Jodi Peterson

  • On the great Slickspot Peppergrass Controversy

    Ralph Maughan

    Various players reflect on the recent listing of the plant, the ESA, conservationists, and the government- I think this is a big issue for Governor Otter because the plant grows where a lot of his pals graze. I wish so much attention was paid to Idaho’s staggering education education system and all the unemployed people. …

  • 2010. Year of the grouse?

    Ralph Maughan

    Yes, the sage grouse is likely to get protection under the Endangered Species Act- Wyoming waits anxiously for federal decision on bird. Year of the grouse? By Dustin Bleizeffer. Casper Star-Tribune energy reporter. . . .  an amazing quote! “Industry and conservation leaders alike seem to agree that the restrictions of such a listing would…

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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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