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  • Mangy Druid wolf shot south of Butte, MT

    Ralph Maughan

    Druid 690F shot by rancher south of Butte- She was sick and beaten up by attacks from other wolves. She was trying for some livestock. Butte, of course, is quite a distance from Yellowstone Park. Yellowstone Park wolf killed near Butte. By Nick Gevock. Montana Standard

  • Biomass Energy Juggernaut Threatens Human and Forest Health

    Ken Cole

    George Wuerthner challenges biomass energy. If biomass energy production were fully implemented, it would become the single largest human impact to land in the country, requiring the near full utilization of all the U.S. forests and much of its agricultural lands for fuel production, contributing to what one TNC scientist has termed “energy sprawl.” Biomass…

  • Nature Conservancy faces potential backlash from ties with BP

    Ken Cole

    This isn’t the first time TNC has faced controversy over ties to big energy. Over the years TNC has been accused of “greenwashing” because of their ties to big energy companies.  Of course they claim that the relationships have been productive ones that help conserve more land but their ties to BP are really hurting…

  • Official disagreement whether Interagency Bison Management Plan is worthwhile

    Ralph Maughan

    In fact, the Montana state veterinarian and MT Dept. of Livestock are the only ones who think it has worked- Interagency Bison Management Plan or IBMP is the controversial bison management plan adopted in 2000 to keep brucellosis from spreading from Yellowstone Park bison to cattle outside the Park.   No brucellosis has spread from bison,…

  • Montana deals with worries over worms

    Ralph Maughan

    The msm Media just aren’t buying the scare tactics- “I believe that there are some who wish it … to be the silver bullet to remove the wolf,” said state Sen. Bruce Tutvedt, R-Kalispell. “And it isn’t going to work.” Read the rest in “State deals with worries over worms” in the Daily InterLake. By…

  • Last Wild Buffalo Tormented by DOL, Park Service

    Ken Cole

    The myth continues. You can show the livestock thugs all the evidence in the world that they are wrong and inhumane but they will forever lie. Here is this week’s update from the Buffalo Field Campaign. There is a very interesting video showing the birth of a buffalo calf where the mother consumes the entire…

  • Oil has now entered the Gulf Loop current and heavy oil reaches the marshes

    Ralph Maughan

    The only good news is that BP now says it is collecting 5000 barrels a day of the oil gusher- Gulf Oil Spill: Oil Has Entered Loop Current, Officials Say. Associated Press. So, some of the oil is now off to Florida and maybe even to the East Coast. So far the main part of…

  • Why was the Deepwater Horizon given a Categorical Exclusion?

    Ken Cole

    The leak started 30 days ago, oil as thick as paint is washing up on the shores of Louisiana and there are plumes of oil deep underwater poisoning the ocean and threatening the Florida Keys and the east coast.  There have been many attempts to stop the leak and it appears that it won’t be…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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