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  • Frank Rich On Oil Spill: Obama Must Come Clean And Clean House

    Ralph Maughan

    This must mean that Interior boss Salazar gets the ax- Clean the Gulf, Clean House, Clean Their Clock. By Frank Rick. New York  Times. The President asked us to pray.  So I ask God that the President fire Ken Salazar. The President says he would have “fired Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive” (currently yachting in…

  • As oil gushes in Gulf, eyes are on sands to north in Alberta

    Ralph Maughan

    Tar sands said to be solution from reliance on “petro-dictators”- Of course, this is all at the cost of another huge insult to the planet as well as the northern Rockies. One of the things that few seem to understand is that the worst environmental degradation comes from exploiting marginal (actually submarginal) resources. Drilling in…

  • Gulf oil full of methane, adding new concerns

    Ralph Maughan

    The news just keeps getting worse on this blowout- Methane gas (natural gas) is what caused the explosion. Natural gas not only profoundly depletes oxygen in the ocean at this concentration, it is also a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. I have to wonder if a gas emission of this magnitude is a…

  • EPA concerned about Monsanto pollution control dam

    Ken Cole

    EPA wants the dam to release clean, treated water. The dam built to keep selenium and heavy metals also blocks water flows to the Blackfoot River. EPA concerned about Monsanto pollution control dam. By JOHN MILLER – Associated Press

  • New World Mine claims all purchased

    Ken Cole

    20 year threat of mining near Yellowstone National Park is over. The New World Mine was proposed to be built just north of Yellowstone National Park in 1990 by a Canadian mining company but it received a lot of opposition because it greatly threatened the headwaters of the Clark Fork of the Yellowstone and Soda…

  • Judge Halts BLM’s Attempt to Revoke Valley Sun’s Grazing Permit for Lack of Use

    Ken Cole

    BOISE — The Department of Interior’s Office of Hearings and Appeals has granted Western Watersheds Project (WWP) a stay of a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) decision to cancel Valley Sun, LLC’s (Valley Sun) grazing permit on public lands along the East Fork and main Salmon Rivers in central Idaho. BLM had attempted to cancel…

  • Oil spotted in Great Salt Lake wetlands

    Ralph Maughan

    Chevron’s broken pipeline has not been contained completely in the Jordan River at SLC- More bad news about the Utah “oil spill.” Oil spotted in Great Salt Lake wetlands. By Judy Fahys. The Salt Lake Tribune

  • Rancher still quarantining herd after brucellosis

    Ken Cole

    7 tested positive. We wrote about this story last December: Second brucellosis case found in Idaho cattle herd. It turns out that 7 cattle tested positive in the herd that was assembled over the last two years. The origins of the animals have not been reported. The remaining animals are being kept in quarantine. Idaho…

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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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