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  • Two Views of the Tester Forest Jobs and Recreation Bill, a.k.a., "Wilderness Bill'

    Ralph Maughan

    Prominent Montana economist discusses bill on Montana public radio- Tester Forest Bill. Two Views of the Tester Forest Jobs and Recreation Bill. By Dr. Tom Power. Montana Public Radio. I’m not sure what to think about the logging part of Tester’s bill either. If you look at it one way, it represents the worst top…

  • Senator Tester Betrays Montana Wilderness

    Ken Cole

    Brian Peck Excoriates Senator Tester’s “Wilderness” Bill And The “Environmental” Groups Who Support It. He explains that the “bill would set aside just over 600,000 acres of Wilderness, withdraw current protection from nearly 250,000 acres, and require that 100,000 acres be made available for logging and roading in an already fractured landscape.” Senator Tester Betrays…

  • Obama administration inches away from 'time out' for roadless forest logging

    Brian Ertz

    Is this a move away from Obama’s previous commitment to the Clinton Roadless Rule ? In May, the Obama administration announced its intention to give Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack top level oversight over incursions into roadless areas.  The move was said to be Obama’s re-commitment to the Clinton Roadless Rule. Obama administration inches away…

  • Nevada's Jarbidge Wilderness, cleanest air, quietest in country

    Ralph Maughan

    They forgot about the mercury pollution from nearby gold pits- A scenic hike. By Mike Cothern – Times-News correspondent

  • Idaho again wants to land choppers in wilderness

    Ken Cole

    Landing helicopters in wilderness violates the Wilderness Act This article contains more information about something I posted a while back. I don’t think the rational behind this plan is to kill wolves inside the wilderness but rather to document the minimum number of 150 wolves the state thinks is required so that they can kill…

  • Wolves add to awe of El Capitan hiking adventure

    Ralph Maughan

    A brief encounter with a wolves makes climbing a major Bitterroot peak a perfect adventure- Wolves add to awe of El Capitan hiking adventure. By Will Moss. The Ravalli Republic (in the Missoulian)

  • Of Wolves & Wilderness

    Brian Ertz

    Idaho Department of Fish & Game Moves to Collar Wolves in the Frank-Church Wilderness A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does…

  • Utah: After 20 years, Red Rock Wilderness bill gets first hearing in Congress

    Ralph Maughan

    Things are finally looking up a bit for the 9-million acre proposal to conserve some of Utah’s finest BLM canyonlands- This bill has been wandering the wilderness for a long time, but now a supporter chairs the important House committee — Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz. The finally got a hearing. Odds against are long because Congress…

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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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