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  • Ban on drilling the Wyoming Range mountains may come in lame-duck session

    Ralph Maughan

    Protection for the Snake River and the Wyoming Range mountains still coming? This popular bill to keep the drilling rigs out of the steep, unstable, scenic Wyoming Range, south of Jackson Hole has stalled due to the election campaign. It looks like there’s going to be a lame duck session of Congress. Harry Reid says…

  • Study shows mimimal risk to common farm birds from wind turbines

    Ralph Maughan

    Wind turbines and birds- “A recent study has concluded that wind turbines pose less of a risk to farmland birds than previously thought.” Birds Not At Risk From Wind Turbines [misleading headline]. Red Orbit. While the study on European farmland birds shows small effect — good news — the headline above overgeneralizes.

  • Early Fall Float on North Fork of the Flathead (my conservation commentary w/photos)

    Ralph Maughan

    An Early Fall Float on the North Fork of the Flathead This New West article with great photos describes floating the beautiful North Fork of the Flathead from its origin in British Columbia downstream to the US border?? I linked to it because I was just up there myself in BC to investigate, and a…

  • Drill, baby, Drill

    Brian Ertz

    George Wuerthner confronts the “Drill, baby, Drill” mantra with real energy conservation solutions.  George has fired up a new blog which will include his essays of the past as well as those currently under construction.  Check it out : Drill, baby, Drill – Wuerthner on the Environment

  • Push to drill shouldn't hurt Wyoming Range bill, senators say

    Ralph Maughan

    Push to drill shouldn’t hurt Wyoming Range bill, senators say. By Chris Merrill. Casper Star-Tribune environment reporter. I wouldn’t count on their judgment here. Drilling has quickly become such a Republican campaign theme that their GOP colleagues will probably vote against protecting the Wyoming Range out of pure symbolism. Sept. 3, 2008, a related story.…

  • Alberta oil sands. Huge environmental cost divides Pres. Bush from U.S. Mayors

    Ralph Maughan

    Critics: Canada’s oil boom an environmental bust. Extracting oil from Canada’s open-pit mines poses unacceptable risks to the region’s rivers and forests, critics of the projects say. By Rob Gillies. AP. They might strip mine an area as large as New York state. While oil sands does yield a lot of net energy, the ratio…

  • Grousing Around

    Brian Ertz

    Joan McCarter looks at some of Wyoming’s recent strategies to protect sage grouse, avoid ESA listing of Sage grouse to keep Oil & Gas happy. Grousing Around Is the sage grouse the 21st century’s spotted owl? – NewWest

  • Southeast Idaho officials approve a big wind energy farm

    Ralph Maughan

    Southeast Idaho officials approve a big wind energy farm. AP “Construction of a 150-turbine wind farm on 20,000 acres along Wolverine Canyon [Blackfoot Mountains] has been approved by Bingham County commissioners.” The turbines would be 490 feet tall!! I wonder if there are any taller ones anywhere? This project is remaking some traditional political alliances…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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