Threats
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Tailpipes, cows expand Idaho’s carbon footprint. Greenhouse gas emissions grew 30% from 1990 to 2005, thanks mainly to dairy expansion. Idaho Statesman. By Rocky Barker. Part of this “increase” is an accounting change — to include methane gas as well as carbon dioxide. Methane is a very potent greenhouse gas and cattle operations, especially CAFOs…
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Another WWP success in keeping the BLM and livestock industry in line. California BLM pulls grazing plan after WWP appeal. WWP blog
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‘It’s pretty disgusting’. By Ben Neary. Casper Star Tribune. Here’s another thing the oil companies don’t mention in their drilling propaganda.
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More cattle test positive for disease. By Cat Urbigkit. Casper Star Tribune. If any show up in a second herd, Wyoming will lose its brucellosis free status once again.
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The important lawsuit to rid the National Elk Refuge of artificial winter feeding of elk is underway. This article in the Jackson Hole Star Tribune touches on the testimony of two experts, one on each side. If as the interest group, Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife claims, closing feedgrounds will cause elk to transmit brucellosis…
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After a long battle the late Wayne Hage has won in the U.S. Court of Claims. Judge Loren A. Smith awarded $4.2 million to Hage’s estate. The defendant was the U.S. Forest Service. Rancher Hage was a “sagebrush rebel” with a ranch in a remote Nevada Valley. He eventually married Helen Chenoweth, a controversial far…
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Brian Ertz posted a story several days ago about this topic. This is my take. In the last week we have had the President’s answer to high energy prices, drill for domestic oil, and develop oil shale deposits. The primary economic result of this will be to enrich the oil companies even more. They don’t…
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Good for this basically Republican group, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. News release from TRCP. “TRCP Sues Interior Department over Mismanaged Wyoming Energy Project. Multiple violations of federal law drive sportsmen’s group to action on Pinedale Anticline, currently targeted for greatly expanded drilling and development” Matthew Brown’s AP story. Group sues to block drilling.