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Right now politicians are falling all over themselves to promote ethanol as the solution to America’s “gasoline shortage” problem. I burn 10% ethanol in my truck, and I kind of like it, but ethanol won’t; it can’t become the solution because there is not enough enough ground to grow the inputs (especially ethanol from corn)…
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Let’s face the facts, one reason the government has failed protect our land and wildlife lately is because there are a white collar criminals running the Dept. of Interior and other government agencies. . . and in case they were literally in bed with big oil. – – – – – In case you haven’t…
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Listen to Ron Gilette tell CBC’s “As It Happens” about what Canadian wolves have done 400 miles to the south in Idaho. Go to about 13:30 on your media player at this link. It is always a kick to hear Ron, and he leaves quite impression about folks here in the Gem State. I hope…
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A lot of folks in Idaho wonder what they study at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station near Dubois, Idaho. Pretty interesting stuff! A bare majority of domestic rams are heterosexual. Read the story in Slate Magazine.
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Pete Zimowsky has written the hunting and fishing column for years at the Idaho Statesman. Recently he opined against shooting elk in a pen and calling it hunting. Zimo got hit from a web site where they think shooting caged animals is hunting. Zimo: Support for canned hunts is really scary. Idaho Statesman. I checked…
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This story is from the Sinapu blog. Although the new effort to ban sodium cyanide and sodium monofluoroacetate is primarily motived by their dangers to non-target wildlife, pets, and people who get in the way, terrorists could hardly do better than get hold of the sodium cyanide capsules that are used in baited ejectors or…
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Here is some good news about one of the species folks have been trying to recover way before there was an Endangered Species Act. Whooping Cranes: An Update. From Alan Gregory’s Conservation News.
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The Wyoming Association of Conservation Districts wants to try cloud seeding to increase snowfall over the tall Wind River Range (the highest mountains in Wyoming). Because the Winds are mostly designated Wilderness, this human modification is controversial. However, by far the largest change to the range is the huge increase in human pollution just beneath…