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Is that a power plant on the park horizon ?

May 16, 2008

Brian Ertz

New rules governing air quality around national parks and wilderness could make it easier for big energy to put a power plant closer to a park or wilderness area near you : Is that a power plant on the park horizon ? – The Washington Post
West Yellowstone Bison Haze Beginning Today

May 14, 2008

Brian Ertz

After one of the most devastating winters for Yellowstone bison to-date, the five agencies of the Interagency Bison Management Plan are announcing the implementation of a haze today that, among other things, will expect remaining buffalo calves to march 20 + miles back into the park. Buffalo Field Campaign Blog has some comments, and the…
Don't Help….Yellowstone geotourism map

May 1, 2008

Brian Ertz

National Geographic Society’s Center for Sustainable Destinations, in partnership with several conservation and tourism organizations (click here to see full list ), most notably Wyoming Travel and Tourism have launched a giant “geotourism” program for the Greater Yellowstone Region (click here for the main page of the project website). The effort is intended to “celebrate…
Denali wolves wearing snares. Animals are roaming free with devices caught on necks

April 25, 2008

Ralph Maughan

Denali wolves wearing snares. Animals are roaming free with devices caught on necks. By Mary Pemberton. Associated Press. Under Wyoming’s wolf plan this could happen inside Yellowstone Park because most of the packs leave the Park from time to time.
Forest Service May Move to Interior. Some See Agency As Out of Place Under the USDA

March 26, 2008

Ralph Maughan

Forest Service May Move to Interior. Some See Agency As Out of Place Under the USDA. By Christopher Lee. Washington Post Staff Writer. While this may seem new, this is one of the oldest controversies in the history of American conservation. The Forest Service began at the end of the 19th century as the Division…
Snowmobile trespass through Yellowstone NP west boundary increases

March 14, 2008

Ralph Maughan

Park trespassing raises flags. By Daniel Person. Bozeman Chronicle Staff Writer
Artificial flood released on Colorado River. Effort promoted as renewing Grand Canyon ecosystem.

March 6, 2008

Ralph Maughan

A 60-hour flood of water is being released from Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River in what is supposed to be renewal of the Grand Canyon’s dwindling sandbars, beaches, vegetation, and habitat for rare and endangered fish. This is the third time such a flood has been created since the giant dam and reservoir…
Six year study shows Western National Parks polluted by toxic chemicals from the outside

February 27, 2008

Ralph Maughan

Western National Parks polluted by toxics from nearby and far away. By Matthew Brown. Associated Press

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

‎”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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