Privatization
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Consensus decision-making is incompatable with the rule of law- Obama, Salazar and the Future of America’s Public Lands. Interior Decorating. By Dr. Brian Horejsi. Counterpunch.
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After a long battle the late Wayne Hage has won in the U.S. Court of Claims. Judge Loren A. Smith awarded $4.2 million to Hage’s estate. The defendant was the U.S. Forest Service. Rancher Hage was a “sagebrush rebel” with a ranch in a remote Nevada Valley. He eventually married Helen Chenoweth, a controversial far…
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I like this editorial in the Great Falls Tribune, namely that if you post your land “no hunting,” that should mean no hunting, period. It should not mean “no hunting for the general public, but hunting for those who pay the landowner. Landowners absolutely do not own the wildlife that live on or cross their…
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Owyhee Canyonlands protections back before Congress. By Rocky Barker. Idaho Statesman
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We could see it in the Idaho wolf population management plan, and now we see in the rules the Forest Service is developing regarding allocation of recreation on public lands. Story in the Casper Star Tribune. Sweet deal for outfitters? By Brodie Farquhar. Ever since the Pombo-Gibbons bill to give away our public lands to…
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Barrasso bill targets beetle kill. By Brodie Farquhar. Casper Star-Tribune correspondent. Whatever his motives, logging has never stopped any of the current beetle kill which is taking place all over the Rocky Mountains. That’s because beetles are not the ultimate cause; it’s the warming climate. The winters are no longer cold enough to kill beetle…
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You might say, “how’s that? I know it is awful language and a fraud, but how is it dangerous to wildlife watching and hunting in general? It is dangerous because it arguably transfers ownership of the state’s wildlife to outfitters. Let me write that again, it implicitly transfers ownership of Idaho wildlife from the state…
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Now the Bush Administration wants to charge fees and require permits for people who commercially take photos or film in the national parks, national forests, BLM lands and wildlife refuges. This is another attempt to steal your rights to use your public land right out from under you, and also to prevent coverage of what…