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  • Montana asks Ottawa to review B.C. coal mine. Coal pit endangers river, MT governor warns

    Ralph Maughan

    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…

  • Under the Influence of Ethanol

    Brian Ertz

    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.

  • Gravity Abolition and Canned Salmon

    Brian Ertz

    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,…

  • Report finds dangerous levels of mercury near Nevada mines and it's moving into Idaho waters

    Ralph Maughan

    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,…

  • Is momentum building to rip out salmon and steelhead-killing dams?

    Ralph Maughan

    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…

  • The Jarbidge bull trout

    Ralph Maughan

    Here’s a story on a variety of bull trout, restricted to the remote, but not untrammeled waters of the Idaho/Nevada border. Magic Valley Times-News. A whole lot of bull. Extensive survey tallies unusual trout. By Matt Christensen. Times-News writer

  • Sportsmen Unite To Save Wyoming Range

    Ralph Maughan

    The Wyoming Range is a beautiful and wildlife-rich mountain range in SW Wyoming. Some folks might think this storyline might be a reference to rangeland in the state of Wyoming. No it is the name of a mountain range 70 miles long and about 25 miles wide. At the headwaters of Lunch Creek and the…

  • Proposed British Columbia coal mine (the Cline Mine) of great concern to Montana

    Ralph Maughan

    A giant open pit coal mine is proposed in British Columbia just north of Montana close to Glacier National Park. I have linked to articles about this proposal for years, but now the reality of the mine is much more solid. The coal would be shipped to China. There are already similiar mines to the…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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