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  • Clinton-Era Secretary Blasts Interior; Scientists Say Salazar Should Quit

    Brian Ertz

    Scientists & Conservation Groups: Time for Salazar to step down Clinton-Era Secretary Blasts Interior; Scientists Say Salazar Should Quit featured in the New York Times Read the letter The Gulf Coast disaster is a cataclysmic failure. It’s a failure of insatiable industrial greed. But to leave it at that – to blame BP and demand…

  • Stop Alberta oil expansion

    Ralph Maughan

    Stop the slow motion “gulf disaster” of Alberta tar sands oil- Stop Alberta oil expansion. Guest column by Tom Woodbury. Western Watersheds Project. Montana Office. It’s bad news for Idaho and Montana highways, but much more for Montana the world at large.

  • Gulf disaster stirs worries in Rockies

    Ralph Maughan

    Could anything similar happen despite Wyoming’s inland location? The corrupt and discredited Minerals Management Service (MMS) both regulates and collects royalties from off-shore oil and gas. Inland, the BLM does the same, and that agency is full of problems too.  You have to wonder if Salazar has been on the job correcting the BLM’s decline…

  • Western Watersheds Project fights for fish, wildlife, and fiscal responsibility

    Ken Cole

    Online Messenger #177 Western Watersheds Project wins in Oregon, Nevada, and Idaho and Continues our Push For Environmental & Fiscal Responsibility Throughout the West ~ Jon Marvel Friends, Western Watersheds Project, with the help of many of our allies in the conservation community, has been bringing much needed change to public lands and wildlife management…

  • Wildlife underpass to be built on Idaho 21 this summer

    Ken Cole

    This is an area where many wildlife collisions occur each spring and fall. Good news for deer and elk which cross the highway to and from winter range. I’ve had a few close calls here myself. Wildlife underpass to be built on Idaho 21 this summer. Idaho Statesman.

  • Feds propose extending minerals extraction ban on bighorn habitat

    Ken Cole

    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

  • The Spill, The Scandal and the President

    Ken Cole

    The inside story of how Obama failed to crack down on the corruption of the Bush years – and let the world’s most dangerous oil company get away with murder A revealing article in Rolling Stone points out how Obama and Salazar did nothing to reform the well known corruption at MMS. It is expected…

  • Eagle wolf poacher loses cash and hunting rights

    Ken Cole

    $1000 fine and loss of hunting privileges for one year Randy Strickland shot the wolf pup from a road near Tyndall Meadows last fall before the season had opened there.  There were many witnesses who reported him. Eagle wolf poacher loses cash and hunting rights. Idaho Statesman

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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