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  • Palin's Stand on Mining Initiative [Bristol Bay] Leaves Many Feeling Burned

    Ralph Maughan

    Palin and the gold mine above Bristol Bay- Salah Palin may have violated state law when she tried to divorce herself from the fact that she was governor to register her opposition to a ballot referendum designed to kill the Pebble Mine. She basically endorsed the controversial Pebble mine that could destroy the world class…

  • Early Fall Float on North Fork of the Flathead (my conservation commentary w/photos)

    Ralph Maughan

    An Early Fall Float on the North Fork of the Flathead This New West article with great photos describes floating the beautiful North Fork of the Flathead from its origin in British Columbia downstream to the US border?? I linked to it because I was just up there myself in BC to investigate, and a…

  • Governor Otter and others: Photo-op environmentalism

    Ralph Maughan

    They don’t do anything to restore the salmon runs, but they show up for photos when the small run of salmon finally makes it past Stanley, Idaho. View of the Idaho Mountain Express: photo-op environmentalism.

  • Good news for the Kootenai River sturgeon

    Ralph Maughan

    Deal reached on Kootenai sturgeon. By Nicholas K. Geranios.  Associated Press Writer The huge and long-lived sturgeon have not been able to spawn successfully in the Kootenai RIver since the Libby Dam was finished way back in the 1970s.

  • Fisheries Service Finds Three Pesticides Imperil West Coast Salmon

    Brian Ertz

    Three poisons that cleared the EPA are found to threaten the recovery of 28 threatened or endangered salmon stocks: Fisheries Service Finds Three Pesticides Imperil West Coast Salmon – Media Newswire This news comes right on the hind end of Bush Interior’s attempt to sidestep outside science with endangered species act decisions (Bush to relax…

  • Pelican vs. trout: Idaho F&G's still out

    Ralph Maughan

    There was an increase in the number of the huge white pelicans in Idaho in 2007, although the number of nests is down this year. These are not common, nor widespread birds, but some anglers (mostly reservoir anglers) want them destroyed, even though they eat far more trash fish than trout. Once again, we face…

  • Good news: Maybe a fine sockeye salmon year for Idaho

    Ralph Maughan

    A record summer for returning sockeye. By Scott Learn. Newhouse News Service “Sockeye salmon, an oceangoing species that starts and ends its life hundreds of river miles inland, are swimming up the Columbia River this summer in numbers unseen in five decades.” First sockeye comes home to Idaho. By Rocky Barker – Idaho Statesman

  • Good news! Endangered sockeye salmon beat projections in Columbia

    Ralph Maughan

    Endangered sockeye salmon beat projections in Columbia River. AP. Idaho Statesman. After the collapse of the spring chinook salmon run into the Sacramento River this year, there was fear it would be general; but the sockeye salmon run bound for interior Oregon, Washington, and Idaho is 6 times that of last year. There are numerous…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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