Mountain Ranges

  • Key U.S. Senate Committee passes bill to protect the Wyoming Range mountains

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is some good news. The U. S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee yesterday passed a bill closing 1.2 million (!!) acres of the Wyoming Range mountains to natural gas exploration and production. This highly scenic, unstable, and wildlife rich mountain range is west of Big Piney and Daniel and south of Jackson, Wyoming.…

  • Nevada quakes continue. Are they foreshocks rather than aftershocks?

    Ralph Maughan

    On Feb. 21, 2008 there was a moderately powerful earthquake of 6.3 near Wells, Nevada. Naturally that was followed by many aftershocks. But now geologists are wondering if something unusual may be underway, especially as the quakes seem to have migrated toward populous Reno, Nevada. Sometimes moderately large quakes are foreshocks of a really big…

  • Governor Freudenthal says drilling industry has too much influence over gas leasing

    Ralph Maughan

    Governor: Forest deal ‘suspect’ – Federal government gave energy company broad influence over study of Wyoming Range. By Noah Brenner and Cory Hatch, Jackson Hole, Wyo. Jackson Hole News and Guide. In the process of drilling a well on public land, granting of the lease is the most important legal step. Once the lease is…

  • Yet another company gives up oil and gas leases on the Rocky Mountain Front

    Ralph Maughan

    Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front seems to be the only place in the Rocky Mountains where the oil companies are not getting what they want. That’s good news, but unfortunately the exception that proves the rule. Energy company cedes its oil, gas leases along Front to Trout Unlimited. Kohlman Co. gives 33,411 acres to Trout Unlimited…

  • Wyoming Range bill to get US Senate panel hearing this month – (Feb. 2008)

    Ralph Maughan

     There is good news on efforts to protect the Wyoming Range from the drillers. Wyoming Range bill to get February hearing. By Cory Hatch. Jackson Hole Daily. The Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold the hearing on the Wyoming Range Legacy Act of 2007 at 2:30 p.m.…

  • Forest Service could quash Wyoming Range leases

    Ralph Maughan

    This doesn’t meant they will, but Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo has a bill to stop leasing and buyout and permanently retire areas already leased. Story in the Casper Star Tribune. By Chris Merrill. Update Gov. Freudenthal seeks delay on Wyo. Range drilling plan. AP For those folks who love the mountains adjacent to the Tetons…

  • Bighorn sheep reintroduced to island mountain ranges in Utah

    Ralph Maughan

    A nice thing about a number of the isolated mountain ranges in the Great Basin is there are no domestic sheep, making the reintroduction of bighorn possible. The reclamation of historic bighorn range is largely limited by domestic sheep, which quickly pass killer diseases to their wild cousins. “Big day for bighorns: Mountain sheep get…

  • Texas school land board delays action on Christmas Mountains

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a followup on the earlier story on the Texas state school land board’s attempt to sell the Christmas Mountains (given to them 16 years ago as a gift). They are adjacent to Big Bend National Park. Story: Action delayed in land dispute. Board declines to accept a bid for the Christmas Mountains site.…

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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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