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With all of the talk about “smart grid technology” and “green” energy recently you may wonder if the two are really what they are claimed to be. Here is a story about “smart grid technology” which indicates that it may not be all that green. “Anybody who’s proposing a transmission line in the United…
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The new travel plan for this high profile national forest is effective May 1- Developing a national forest travel plan nowadays is fraught with controversy and often lawsuits, but the Bridger-Teton seems to have pretty wide acceptance, relatively speaking. Years in the making, it goes into effect on May. 1. ATV, motorbike rules to go…
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Mexican CAFOs are an excellent mixing bowl for new flu viruses- Well it looks like we’re in for some fun and games with a novel strain of influenza. Hopefully it won’t kill too many of us, and maybe a lesson will be learned (don’t count on either). There is a lengthy article on this in…
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Of course wolf “depredations” are somehow special. Will the blizzard story last more than a couple days? Calf losses said to be in the thousands with reports still coming in. For comparison, cattle losses to wolves in Montana in 2008 totaled just 77 dead with a couple dozen more “probables.” I bring this up because…
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Livestock, off-road vehicles, oil and gas road development are major culprits- The Western United States is naturally dusty, right? With the exception of some dry lake beds and parts of very hot deserts this is not true. Soil is held in place from the wind by vegetation and rock. Anything that reduces the ground cover…
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If SB1175 is signed into law collaborative group may collapse Today there was meeting of the Idaho Bighorn Sheep/Domestic Sheep Advisory Group which ended early due to concerns of various groups about how Senate Bill 1175 will affect what the group does. At the present time SB1175 is awaiting Governor Otter’s signature or veto and…
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You might remember the controversial project that resulted in an IDFG regional supervisor to lose his job after pointing out the obvious – namely, that energy developments (yes, even ‘blessed’ Wind) on public lands impact wildlife and habitat in southern Idaho. The wind company at issue on China Mountain/Brown’s Bench is RES Americas Inc., and…
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A sad fact is that public land livestock grazing is so pervasive out west (around 300 million acres of public land) that most people have become accustomed to the image of livestock degraded landscapes and have little idea what might be. Recently, WWP received a report dated July 18, 2007 from the Idaho Department of…