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After being repeatedly slapped down by folks all across the political spectrum, the BLM, at least in Wyoming, hasn’t learned that Americans love their public lands, and they don’t want them sold off. This latest proposal is in eastern Wyoming. The media picked up the story a few days ago. At first it seemed like…
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Story in Sun Valley on-line. WWP keeps on beating the BLM. This time it was on remote Spruce Mountain of north central Nevada. Chaining junipers is claimed to be a way of restoring grasslands where junipers have invaded and shaded out the grass. Of course, if the junipers are very large the notion of invasion…
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The article is talking about the West Slope of the Rockies in Colorado. However, it is not the gas industry or the BLM who thinks they are too wild to drill. The places listed are: – The Roan Plateau – The Clear Fork Divide – Grand Mesa Slopes – Vermillion Basin – HD Mountains Article…
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‘ “I’m not looking at whether this is connected to global warming,” said Doug Smith, lead biologist and team leader of the Yellowstone wolf project. Yet wolf and prey behavior is different from what it was at the beginning of wolf reintroduction to the park in 1994, because the weather is different,” he said.’ Brodie…
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Pretty scars: National Geographic films the gas drilling. High Country News Blog. It shows what’s going better than my few still photos.
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“A new report by conservationists shows that Wyoming, including the Wyoming Range and the Upper Green River Valley, would bear almost half of the new oil and gas wells proposed throughout the country.” Story in the Jackson Hole Daily by Corey Hatch
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This is about the Kermode bear of the central British Columbia coast and coastal islands. It is a black bear that carries a gene that makes a percentage of its numbers cream colored (not actually white). It is not an albino. The uniqueness of the bear has helped build conservation efforts to restrain British Columbia’s…
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It’s called the “North Zone travel plan revision,” hardly exciting enough to make your heart pound. But the Forest Service has a very major revision of its travel plans for the area on the east side of Jackson Hole (and other prime wildlife areas) underway, and your comments are due on October 23. The mighty…