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  • Report: Barbed Wire Fences Deadly To Sage Grouse

    Brian Ertz

    The impact to sage grouse numbers appears to be very large The thousands and thousands of miles of barbed wire fence chopping up lands throughout the west is bad for wildlife for many reasons. Now, the impact that this installation for livestock production on public lands has to sage grouse is demonstrated in a study…

  • Senator Tester Betrays Montana Wilderness

    Ken Cole

    Brian Peck Excoriates Senator Tester’s “Wilderness” Bill And The “Environmental” Groups Who Support It. He explains that the “bill would set aside just over 600,000 acres of Wilderness, withdraw current protection from nearly 250,000 acres, and require that 100,000 acres be made available for logging and roading in an already fractured landscape.” Senator Tester Betrays…

  • US House passes amendment banning measurement of livestock-related global warming gases

    Brian Ertz

    We’ve talked about how despite Hamburgers being the ‘Hummers’ of Food in Global Warming, and How Meat, Especially Beef Contributes to Global Warming, big agribusiness and the livestock industry flex their political muscle and are exempted from Meating the Truth every time (like on the Climate Bill). Now, a bill has just passed the U.S.…

  • Video of "ecofriendly" wind power

    Ralph Maughan

  • Condos or Cows? Neither

    Ralph Maughan

    This is an essay by George Wuerther on the topic whether we have to choose cows or housing development. I put it up in reponse to Wilderness Muse’s query on another post. Note: this was written in 2003. Condos or Cows? Neither! (1-20-03 edit) by © George Wuerthner Box 839 Richmond, Vermont FLAWED STRATEGY Ranching…

  • Obama administration inches away from 'time out' for roadless forest logging

    Brian Ertz

    Is this a move away from Obama’s previous commitment to the Clinton Roadless Rule ? In May, the Obama administration announced its intention to give Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack top level oversight over incursions into roadless areas.  The move was said to be Obama’s re-commitment to the Clinton Roadless Rule. Obama administration inches away…

  • Yellowstone Park wolves to decline for second year in a row

    Ralph Maughan

    27 % decline in 2008 will be followed by another decline in ’09- At the end of 2007 there were 171 wolves that lived primarily inside Yellowstone Park, but very high pup mortality due to disease (distemper) along with the natural attrition of adult and sub-adult wolves caused a 27% decline (124 wolves). Disease had…

  • Another grizzly found clawless

    Ralph Maughan

    Poached bear found on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of the Rocky Mountain Front- Another grizzly found clawless. By Karl Puckett. Great Falls Tribune Staff Writer Just for reference. This bear was part of the Northern Continental Divide ecosystem grizzly bear population, the largest grizzly population in the lower 48 states (more bears than greater Yellowstone).

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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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