Threats
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The next battleground. By Dustin Bleizeffer. Casper Star-Tribune energy reporter. Story: the next battleground. This my be a battle of epic proportions. It shows the oil and gas industry wants it all — all of the West’s undeveloped spaces.
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This from the WWP blog — success in keeping cattle out of a National Wildlife Refuge. The cattle growers claim that grazing the cows, hardly a native animal, is good for the many species of wildlife is ridculous in the face of it. Nevertheless, there has been so much propaganda over the years that a…
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There is no doubt, the hoopla surrounding ID Senator Larry Craig is a well deserved condemnation of hypocrisy that’s been years in the coming and nobody is celebrating his descent more than progressives throughout the Northwest. Now, he has resigned effective September 30. But the shamefull manner in which a powerful Republican Senator squandered his…
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No doubt similiar situations are taking place all over the burning parts of Idaho (the Castle Rock fire is not nearly as large as the East Zone fire complex, east of McCall, for example). No doubt many wolf packs have moved too, out of the necessity of avoiding the flames and to follow the elk…
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Invasive weed a fuel for West’s wildfires. By Patrick O’Driscoll, USA Today. This is a fine and an easy-to-understand article on the role cheatgrass plays in the range fires of today’s West. It wasn’t supposed to be this way — conservationists were to be held to blame for the fires and Larry Craig was to…
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The BLM is going to remove about half the wild horses in the Great Divide Basin of south central Wyoming. Story by Cat Urbigkit in the Casper Star Tribune. I found it interesting that they have done a genetic analysis of the origin of the horses. post 1514
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Ted Williams wrote this. It’s in Read It Here Magazine. The fees are on other folk’s minds too. The Forest for the Fees. By Brian Park and Joshua Zaffos. Rocky Mountain Chronicle.
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Ravaging Appalachia. Editorial by the New York Times.