Threats
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Report: Drilling squeezes hunters, habitat. By Matthew Brown. Associated Press writer. Casper Star Tribune. In the old sense of the phrase, the real wolf at the door in the West is the energy industry. post 1087
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Chance of big summer fires ‘significant’ Climate experts predict warmer, dry weather. By Mike Stark. Billings Gazette Staff post 1085
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As gas wells spread like cancer across across the upper Green River basin, Wyoming’s governor is listening to public opinion and seems to be hardening his stance against the drive to drill the adjacent mountains on the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Freudenthal skeptical of Range drilling. By The Associated Press post 1076
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From the Casper Star Tribune, Story about water wells in the Pinedale and Jonah gas fields being contaminated by benzene and other hydrocarbons. Well Probe Points to Trucks. By Whitney Royster. Post 1075
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More on the RAT. By Greg Lewis. Tucson Citizen. Who are the interests behind the pay-to-use-your-public-land philosophy? post 1073
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This sounds very serious. It could spread. Ebola-like virus killing fish in Great Lakes. USA Today. By Dennis Cauchon. post 1072
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Wild Bill has another insightful article on the ill effects of the “RAT.” FS Digging Its Own Grave. By Bill Schneider. New West. Being from SE Idaho, I don’t get hit with the RAT as much as most folks, but recently in Arizona I really felt its sting. I wanted to explore Oak Creek Canyon.…
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The Mining Gazette out of Michingan tells of two men who get two sentences for killing wolves in Michigan. Both wolves were killed on the same day in different places. The two thousand and a bit of probation seems light to me, especially given their listed status – Men sentenced for killing wolves By KURT…