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  • The Truth from Above

    Ralph Maughan

    Google Earth is revolutionizing the way people see change on the Earth’s surface. In this case is it the massive amount of oil and gas development in Wyoming. On your own or watching the short video at www.skytruth.org, it can revolutionize your view of cumulative environmental impacts. For those of you that have seen “An…

  • Saskatchewan and Alberta are seeing more chronic wasting disease

    Ralph Maughan

    Officials in both provinces report that some of these cases are located in new areas – a finding that suggests that the disease may be spreading or that animals with CWD are on the move. This story is from CP by John Cotter. Deer in other provinces tested negative. Officials are afraid it might spread…

  • Bridger-Teton National Forest has draft travel plan

    Ralph Maughan

    With powerful off-road vehicles able to rip and tear almost anywhere, the establishment of a national forest’s travel plan has become a critical matter, especially when it is a forest like the Bridger-Teton, contained some of the best scenery and wildlife in America. The travel plan for the “Teton” portion of the Bridger-Teton is moving…

  • Selenium contamination causes big decline in Yellowstone cutthroat trout in Idaho/Wyoming border streams

    Ralph Maughan

    BOISE, Idaho — Two of the West’s largest remaining populations of Yellowstone cutthroat trout face sharp declines due to contamination from phosphate mines in southeast Idaho, Idaho State University professors say. Read the rest of this AP story by Keith Ridler. Note one correction in the story. . . it is the Greater Yellowstone Coalition,…

  • Greater Yellowstone Coalition says Let Jackson Hole bison spread out

    Ralph Maughan

    There are too many bison in Jackson Hole, and the rate of infection with brucellosis is far higher than the much persecuted (by Montana) bison of Yellowstone Park. The problem is the winter feeding of the bison at the National Elk Refuge. The presence of the bison only complicates the already grave problem of feeding…

  • Tickets to Al Gore's speech in Boise are seriously sold out-

    Ralph Maughan

    In terms of turnout for a speech of this nature, this is incredible in Idaho. Inconvenient in Boise. Ridenbaugh Press. Randy Stapilus.

  • Chief forester resigns. First woman to head US Forest Service appointed.

    Ralph Maughan

    Northern Region’s Kimbell to Replace Bosworth as Forest Service Chief. Headwaters News as republished in New West. I’m not sure what this means. A new chief forester can mean a new direction, but not usually unless the Administration changes (as it did from the “Bush the Greater” to Clinton in 1993, and then again in…

  • Officials review energy drilling in Caribou/Targhee National Forest — Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    Idaho is generally thought to be safe from the onslaught of the natural gas drillers, but in fact a portion of Eastern Idaho has the same geological structure as part of gas-rich Wyoming. The “Overthrust Belt” ranges of the Rocky Mountains run along the Idaho/Wyoming border. This intensely folded and even overturned area of thrust-faulting…

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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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