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  • Craig, "ecoterrorists", hidden riders, and industrial legacy

    Brian Ertz

    There is no doubt, the hoopla surrounding ID Senator Larry Craig is a well deserved condemnation of hypocrisy that’s been years in the coming and nobody is celebrating his descent more than progressives throughout the Northwest. Now, he has resigned effective September 30. But the shamefull manner in which a powerful Republican Senator squandered his…

  • Forest Service seeks to decommission 19,000 miles of old logging and unauthorized roads in its Northern Region

    Ralph Maughan

    This is great news for fisheries and clean water. Abandoned logging roads often don’t heal. In fact, they can generate more and more erosion as the years go by, the culverts wash out, and small disturbances turn into gullies. In addition, there are many “use” ways — roads never constructed that were made simply by…

  • Rocky Barker's blog: Cowboys and loggers lose in two courtrooms

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is more on the big victory, slapping down the Bush Administration’s new grazing regulations. Rocky Barker goes on to tie it with the recent Bush defeat on the roadless issue ruling. One point about the headline — ” Cowboys and loggers.” Cowboys and loggers are the employees. Like so many of us, they are…

  • Cut by loss of timber payments, Oregon counties curb services

    Ralph Maughan

    Western Republicans should really take a political hit for this, although they probably won’t. Idaho’s Senator Craig, for example, has been braying how he got money for the rural schools and rural county services (formerly dependent on timber revenues funded). The Bush Administration had wanted to do it by selling off national forest land around…

  • You're going to pay more, but ranchers to pay less to use public lands this year

    Ralph Maughan

    They’ve gone and done it again — dropped public land grazing fees as low as the law allows. For a buck, thirty-five a month ranchers can let a cow stomp all over the the public land trample the banks and shit in the streams. Oh, yes, and their calves get to do it for free.…

  • Grace at Carrizo Plain?

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is an interesting post on the Western Watersheds Project blog. Grace at Carrizo Plain?

  • Tracking the Spirit Bear, the white bear that's really black

    Ralph Maughan

    This is about the Kermode bear of the central British Columbia coast and coastal islands. It is a black bear that carries a gene that makes a percentage of its numbers cream colored (not actually white). It is not an albino. The uniqueness of the bear has helped build conservation efforts to restrain British Columbia’s…

  • Fire salvage logging in Oregon lost money

    Ralph Maughan

    After almost every forest fire, there is a push for salvage logging based on the idea that the forest is destroyed, so some of its former value needs to be captured. Folks who have watched salvage logging know that instead, the practice often introduces weed seeds, actually sets back forest regrowth and loses money too.…

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Edward Abbey

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