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  • Sheepherder Wants Special Treatment from Idaho Legislature.

    Ken Cole

    Weiser sheep rancher tells Idaho lawmakers Forest Service threatens his livelihood Brian Murphy – Idaho Statesman Sheepherder Ron Shirts has appealed to the Idaho Senate to intervene and give him special consideration above the interests of the public, wildlife, and the Nez Perce Tribe. Shirts complains that his livelihood is threatened because the Payette National…

  • Conservation groups sue over Idaho roadless lands

    Ralph Maughan

    Interesting, a move up from collaborationism- Idaho has more roadless, undeveloped national forest land than any other state but Alaska.  Compared to most other western states only a modest portion of this has been protected as designated Wilderness. The rest was allocated into various categories in an initiative pushed by Jim Risch during his brief…

  • Massive Public Lands Bill a Bonanza for Sportsmen, but?

    Ralph Maughan

    Protection of Wyoming and Salt River Range, plus Commissary Ridge from drilling wins praise- Massive Public Lands Bill a Bonanza for Sportsmen. By Chris Hunt. New West. But there is more in the bill than protection of certain parcels of land- If you don’t think about the Owyhee Initiative part of the bill, it seems…

  • Public Lands bill easily passes the U.S. Senate

    Ralph Maughan

    The critical vote was 66-12- The Caucus. New York Times blog. On a Sunday, the Senate Votes Yes on a Lands Bill. By Carl Hulse. Here is the AP story. Senate boosts wilderness protection across US. By Mathew Daly. The bill now goes to the House where there should be no challenge unless the bill…

  • Giant omnibus public lands bill to be voted on soon in new Congress

    Ralph Maughan

    Looks like Harry Reid is keeping his promise to bring the bill back up- This is a really big thing, much larger than the two parochial stories below, even though a lot of it deals with “cannonball parks.” Snake River, Wyoming Range bill on table. By Cory Hatch. Jackson Hole Daily Senate vote Sunday on…

  • Shedding limbs – U.S. Forest Service morale sinks to a new low

    Ralph Maughan

    From Writers on the Range- The essay is by By Laura Paskus.

  • More last minute Administration swipe at the economy and the environment

    Ralph Maughan

    Mark Rey set to hamstring Western national forests and counties allowing developers to pave Forest Service logging roads for remote subdivisions- The “Darth Vader” of the national forests is poised to strike again during the Administration’s deaththrows. Former timber lobbyist Rey, who bosses the Forest Service, will try to set in stone the plan to…

  • Iowa’s Vilsack Likely Pick For Secretary of Agriculture

    Ralph Maughan

    WaPO says environmentalists and “food groups” reacted positively- Obama to name Vilsack for Agriculture. By Philip Rucker and Dan Morgan. Washington Post Staff Writers. Vilsack was a popular governor of Iowa. He has been a major politician. His expertise in agriculture seems to come more from being a governor than from intimate knowledge of policy.…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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