Fish
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Post 995 It must gall Kempthorne and Idaho’s water politicians, but the Ninth Circuit Court has upheld an earlier decision on salmon that could lead to the tearing down of the pork barrel salmon and steelhead-killing dams on the lower Snake River. Significantly, “The court also called flawed the Bush administration’s standards that said Endangered…
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Much like the proposals to regulate or eliminate elk shooting enclosures in Idaho, which had much public support, but were defeated anyway, efforts in Montana to secure the right to access the streams of the state, which belong to the people, has been killed in the Montana legislature. Much-debated stream access bill tabled. By Charles…
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In the last several years Montana’s economy has turned really turned around after years of stagnation and growing inequality. During that time too more and more landowners have tried to block off the public from their streams. Now Gov. Brian Schweitzer has come out strongly in favor of a proposed law that would require landowners…
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Montana officials, were given the bum’s rush in with complaints to the B.C. government about the forthcoming Cline open pit coal mine near Glacier National park inside British Columbia. Governor Schweitzer has taken the matter to the national level in Canada. Schweitzer is requesting a review under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act saying he has…
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Ted Williams has written a very interesting article on ethanol. “America’s corn-based ethanol program carries high costs in fish, wildlife and tax dollars.” Check out Under the Influence of Ethanol on Ted Williams’ Conservation Connection.
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Lawmakers revisit the lower Snake River dam debate and demonstrate the change-up in Congress. It’ll be interesting… Read the Statesman’s article From Western Watersheds Blog: “The Idaho Statesman has an interesting article on a new bill that would study the economics of breaching four of the lower Snake River dams. Idaho’s federal politicians are already fortifying with Idaho economy guru,…
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Here is a shocking report about the damn Canadian gold pits in northern Nevada and movement of neurotoxic mercury toward and into Idaho. RENO, Nev. – Startlingly high concentrations of mercury in ambient air were found near at least three northern Nevada mines, according to a January study by researchers at the University of Nevada,…
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There is finally movement to rid the Klamath River in northern California of its salmon-killing dams and probably those on the Snake River in Washington State which have greatly reduced salmon and steelhead runs upsteam in Idaho. While the dams generate some hydropower and a bit of barge traffic to Lewiston, Idaho, the ruination of…