The Great Outdoors
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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.…
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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…
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The National Park Service has come out against the giant coal-fired electrical generating plant planned for north of Ely, Nevada. Now it and majority leader Harry Reid are in opposition as well as it appear local residents. Park Service: Ely, Nevada coal-fired power plant plan ‘unacceptable‘. Elko Daily Free Press.
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The Salt Lake Tribune features an article about a letter that a couple of Utah legislators wrote associating wilderness designation in the state with aiding terrorists. Letter links wilderness, threats of terror. The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance takes the brunt of these bumbling assaults on preserving wild places, wilderness that when properly protected actualizes the…
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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…
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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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The Dallas News doesn’t like the idea. Keep Mountains Public. Dallas News. Neither does the San Antonio Express. Christmas Mountains sale should be delayed. Proponents of the sale have drummed up a phony Second Amendment argument to justify not selling the mountains to the National Park Service to add to Big Bend National Park. Of…