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  • Putting wind and solar on formerly contaminated sites

    Ralph Maughan

    Could the use of  “brownfields” reduce the conflicts over the placement of these land-expansive uses? Contamination transformation. Contaminated sites being used to house wind farms, solar arrays and geothermal power plants. Mother Nature Network. By Jessica A. Knoblauch It appears there is a lot of land in this category and many are near existing transmission…

  • Bighorns, domestic sheep don't mix [in Washington State either]

    Ralph Maughan

    Domestic Sheep/bighorn conflict is not limited to Idaho- Most of our news on this issue has been in Idaho where the Payette National Forest is about to come out with an environmental impact statement on how to protect the bighorn. This will have national effects such as described in this story about the two animals…

  • The confessions of an off-road-vehicle outlaw

    Ralph Maughan

    He had a change of heart when other off-roaders ruined his elk hunt- The confessions of an off-road-vehicle outlaw. By Garrett Veneklasen. Op-ed in the Salt Lake Tribune. Writers on the Range.

  • Wyoming Game and Fish sets wildlife guidelines for wind developers

    Ralph Maughan

    Wyo. sets wildlife guidelines for wind developers. By Matt Joyce. Associated Press.

  • Another Western Watersheds Project victory in Arizona

    Ralph Maughan

    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…

  • Green Valley Dam could fail. Army Corps working hard to shore up dam above it.

    Ralph Maughan

    This might sound a little confusing, but apparently the way to reduce the threat of the Green Valley Dam failing after heavy rains is to shore up the Howard Hanson Dam upstream. The article says this will reduce the chances of Green Valley failing to 1 in 25 this winter. A failure would flood a…

  • Senate Democrats advance climate bill without GOP

    Ralph Maughan

    Republicans boycotted the committee vote, so the Democrats passed the bill without them, 10 to 1- What the Democrats did is what you might expect, but in the past the Democrats have said, “Oh we need some bipartisanship,” when it is clear the minority at present wants nothing to do with bipartisanship. I guess no…

  • The difference grazing cattle makes at the end of the season

    Ralph Maughan

    Comparison of two sites, Nov. 4, 2009, in the Mink Creek drainage south of Pocatello, Idaho- Mink Creek is a popular recreation area on the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, just south of Pocatello, Idaho. The first 3-4 miles have no livestock grazing. As the drainage gains slowly in elevation, it is grazed from about June 1…

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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

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