Threats
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A technical document, part of the current draft environmental impact statement on Yellowstone snowmobile use tells that the requirement that snowmobilers have guides has reduced, but not eliminated, the stress snowmobiles create on the wintering wildlife. Bald Eagles are the species that show the most stress, followed by elk and coyotes. While the grooming of…
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Jeff Bingaman, senator from New Mexico will be the new chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. He says the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is now safe from drilling proposals. The oil industry’s political representatives can count the votes too, and they agree. Story by James W. Brosnan. Albuquerque Tribune.
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A small number of bison escaped from a controversial “quarantine” facility a few miles north of Yellowstone Park. There are stories about it in several Montana papers and a news release from the Buffalo Field Campaign (see the next page for both)
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It’s probably hard for most folks to keep up on the struggle over snowmobiles in Yellowstone Park. The article today indicates that the current temporary plan has now mostly become the draft plan for the future. Public comments will be taken beginning in March 2007. Snowmobiling in the Park would continue with a maximum 720…
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Of all those wilderness, plus side-payment (to non-wilderness interest) bills that have suddenly emerged, this is the worst. Washington County, Utah is the fastest growing part of the state because it is scenic desert country–warm in the winter, and cool in one’s air conditioned house in the summer. It’s a magnet for LDS retirees and…
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The gas companies are not reclaiming the land as they are supposed to. I can hardly believe it, and they promised in their advertisements! 😮 Here is the sorry, but hardly surprising story in the Billings Gazette.
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It’s time to reauthorize the controversial, disease-spreading winter elk feedlots on US Forest Service land in Wyoming. The Forest Service has been doing it annually and they figure they can do so again and get away with it again.
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The Coalition of National Park Service Retirees reports that decreased use of Yellowstone Park by snowmobiles has been the greatest factor favoring air quality in the Park the last few years. Read about it in the Jackson Hole News and Guide. By Cory Hatch.