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  • Two new cases of brucellosis in Wyoming.

    Ken Cole

    Park County bison tests positive for brucellosis By BOB MOEN – Associated Press. Herd tests positive for brucellosis By BRENNA BRAATEN – Cody Enterprise.

  • Has the Japanese Whaling Fleet Surrendered?

    Ken Cole

    Activism at work. I’ve never written about this here but I have been following this campaign for many years and I have been acquainted with a number of people who have volunteered for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society over those years. Of all of the anti-whaling groups out there they are the most effective but…

  • Former Gov. candidate Rex Rammel could face charges for allegedly killing elk

    Ken Cole

    Wow!! Who’s next? Who knows? If there is a conviction in this case, it might solidify my theory that anti-wolf advocates are behind the decimation of elk herds 😉 Recall, Rex Rammel is the politician who joked about “Obama tags“. He also had a run in with then Governor and now Senator Jim Risch after…

  • Big Polluters Freed from Environmental Oversight by Stimulus

    Ken Cole

    Big Energy companies with criminal records given billions in stimulus funds to wreak havoc on our public lands and wildlife. The Center for Public Integrity has issued a stinging report on how the Obama Administration has bypassed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) when issuing permits for energy and other projects which involve federal lands…

  • Spring Valley, Nevada

    Brian Ertz

    Where NOT to hastily site an Industrial-scale Wind Energy Project Just north of Great Basin National Park, east of Ely in Eastern Nevada, lies a public landscape called Spring Valley. Spring Valley is a miraculous place, renowned for its magnificent skies and as critical habitat for sagebrush obligate species such as sage grouse and pygmy…

  • Do ranchers have a right to predator free landscape?

    Brian Ertz

    George Wuerthner nails it again, questioning the chief assumption that informs livestock-wolf conflict management. Do ranchers have a right to predator free landscape? – George Wuethner, NewWest One of the unquestioned and unspoken assumptions heard across the West is that ranchers have a right to a predator free environment. Even environmental groups like Defenders of…

  • Colorado outfitter fined $40,000

    Ralph Maughan

    Veteran guide gets a big fine for illegal deer hunting with clients- Outfitter fined nearly $40,000 for illegal hunting. By The Denver Post. Does anyone have much knowledge of the “Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact” mentioned in the article?

  • Anonymous Poacher Taunts Idaho Wildlife Agents From Everett

    Brian Ertz

    WTF? It’s just a sick game to some people : Anonymous Poacher Taunts Idaho Wildlife Agents From Everett – KOMO News via KXLY The letter reads in part: “Here is a picture of the nice buck I poached up in northern Idaho this year. & I plan to do all my Idaho hunting like this…

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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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