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  • ‘Whale war’ kicks off as Japan sends strengthened fleet to Antarctica

    Ken Cole

    Last year, due to the constant disruption of the Japanese whaling fleet by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the massive earthquake, and the resulting tsunami, it looked like the whalers had given up. Unfortunately they plan on returning to the Southern Ocean to hunt whales again this year and Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd…

  • Farmer ‘snapped’ in anger at pelican colony

    Ken Cole

    This has to be one of the most egregious incidents of wildlife destruction I’ve heard of in recent times. A farmer has admitted to destroying an entire colony of pelican nests. 2,400 eggs and chicks were destroyed by a farmer who complained that the colony was destroying his crops. Pelicans are protected under the Migratory…

  • Sage Grouse hunting in decline for similar reasons as elk declines

    Ken Cole

    The sage grouse population of Idaho has been in steep decline for years. It is now getting to the point where hunting has declined to a one-week season where hunters are limited to one bird a day. It seems a bit odd to me that there isn’t more outrage by the hunting community over this…

  • Supreme Court Ends The George W. Bush Livestock Grazing Regulations Once and For All

    Brian Ertz

    Denial of Livestock Industry’s Petition for Writ of Certiorari seals the fate of Bush era grazing regulations on 160,000,000 acres of public land On Monday, October 3rd the United States Supreme Court denied consideration of an appeal by the Public Lands Council of prior federal court decisions won by Western Watersheds Project that overturned the…

  • Court Overturns BLM Range Management Plans

    Brian Ertz

    Western Watersheds Project wins initial court victory  Western Watersheds Project (WWP) has won a federal court order overturning the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Resource Management Plans (RMPs) for the Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve in Idaho and the Pinedale Field Office in Wyoming.  These two plans affect management on over 2.5…

  • Beetles chew down the forests of the west

    Ralph Maughan

    This topic is not new here, but what about all those who blame the govmint? Pine forests, especially lodgepole pine and whitebark pine are being killed by bark beetles at an incredible rate from the Yukon (that is not in the USA) to Mexico (not America either). There is controversy among scientists why the beetles…

  • A well informed polemic on public lands and other cattle ranching.

    Ralph Maughan

    “Why You Should Eat Yak Instead of Beef-“ Maybe folks ought not just “like” this on Facebook. Send it to your governors.  Oregon’s governor could use a copy now. Why You Should Eat Yak Instead of Beef. By Christopher Ketcham. Truthdig.

  • Study: Yellowstone region records the hottest decade ever

    Ralph Maughan

    Summer temperatures were up 2.3 degrees compared to the last century- A 9.7 degree rise in the mean temperature is predicted for the next century. Study: Yellowstone region records hottest decade ever, on pace for disastrous warming effects by the end of the century. By Jodi Hausen.  Bozeman Chronicle. – – – – – I…

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