Mining
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Wyoming herd is a big tourist attraction The Whiskey Mountain Bighorn Sheep Locatable Mineral Withdrawal may be extended to protect bighorn sheep habitat from development for another 20 years. The herd there is estimated to be about 1,000 bighorn. Feds propose extending minerals extraction ban on bighorn habitat. Casper Star Tribune
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Conservation deal for Canadian forest the size of Texas- Although the first article below has a somewhat pessimistic tone, this certainly seems better than the current trend in boreal Canada. There is more value to the vast boreal forest than caribou. Caribou still at risk under historic forestry deal. Industry, environmentalists band together for sustainability.…
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1,142 acres of BLM Land in southeast Idaho could be sold to Simplot for phosphate mining This would be a precedent setting decision that would eliminate access to this land and limit input into how it is managed. Agency mulls selling public land for mine TODD DVORAK – Associated Press
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Is this a final victory in 23 year fight against the mine? It probably isn’t because Judge Molloy both ruled for and against conservationists on their variety of claims, but it does send the Forest Service’s decision to approve the mine back to square one. Molloy blocks mine beneath Cabinet Mountains Wilderness. By Michael Jamison.…
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Controversy began 1n 1974- Well what a cause for celebration this is! I can remember I was just starting to explore the wild country as a young man back in 1974 when Sage Creek Coal proposed a big coal mine on Cabin Creek, a tributary to the North Fork of the Flathead. In 2008 I…
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Great progress on the mining mess of the New World Mining district above Cooke City- Although the article below writes of the headwaters of the Yellowstone. It is actually Soda Butte Creek and the Clark’s Fork of the Yellowstone. They have been poking around and doing some mining here since the 19th Century. In the…
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After years of controversy, B.C. to ban mining, energy development in critical headwaters of famed river near Glacier National Park- I have been worried about this for years, and posted many articles. Every month is seemed a new, massive environmentally destructive scheme was proposed for the North Fork. Now British Columbia Lt. Gov. Steven Point…
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Western Watersheds Project Wins Summary Judgment on the 100,000 acre Byner Complex Allotments. BLM- This no “family ranch” but a spin-off of Freeport-McMoRan mining. Here is the WWP’s news release on the victory for the American people ♦Western Watersheds Project’s Arizona Office has been granted Summary Judgment byAdministrative Law Judge Harvey C. Sweitzer in a…