Wildlife Habitat

  • Obama signs the omnibus public lands bill

    Ralph Maughan

    Channels Bush and adds a presidential signing statement- Updates to 4-2. State specific information added at end of post There was much rejoicing as the President signed the Omnibus Public Lands Bill, usually and incorrectly called the giant new “wilderness bill.” It does add 2-million acres to the National Wilderness Preservation System, but it does…

  • Measure to Regulate Development Along Montana Rivers Likely Dead

    Ralph Maughan

    Developers and Republicans kill the bill- Story in New West by. By Courtney Lowery. It’s hard to find a bright light during the great recession, but if it is killing off the rural sprawl developers who killed the bill, there is at least a bright flicker.

  • Some info just in case you want to conserve water

    Ralph Maughan

    Check out this graphic. http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/web/trans0309walkthisway.html

  • Alaska's Mt. Redoubt spews ash 65,000 feet, placing Kenai Peninsula residents on alert

    Ralph Maughan

    The series of eruptions is continuing, with ashfall now likely in more populated and recreational important areas- 3/26  Alaska’s Mt. Redoubt spews ash 65,000 feet, placing Kenai Peninsula residents on alert. LA Times. 3/28  Redoubt erupts a number of times on Friday, March 27. LA Times.

  • Research shows continuing decline of moose in Jackson Hole

    Ralph Maughan

    Primary causes are warming, lack of shade and poor nutrition- It’s obvious to anyone who has spent years living in or visiting Jackson Hole that the moose population isn’t what it was 30 years ago or even a decade. Now biologists are discovering why. Unfortunately for those who want more moose around little can be…

  • The dirty green line

    Ralph Maughan

    Yes, as we have been saying for some time now- The dirty green line. Erecting new transmission lines for solar and wind power is a boon to coal-burning utilities and a drain on our wallets. What’s an environmentalist to do? By Katharine Mieszkowski. Salon.com. It’s good to see more and more folks figuring this out.…

  • Permanent Damage From Temporary Logging Roads

    Brian Ertz

    George Orwell is likely spinning in his grave when it comes to all the linguistic mischief that gets thrown around by politicians and land managers doing their best to cut down our forests, “manage”, “control”, and “harvest” the wild. Think “Healthy Forest” Initiative, removing that troublesome “fuel”, “wildlife friendly fences”, and “thinning and cleaning the…

  • “Cleanup” worsens selenium contamination at Smoky Canyon

    Ralph Maughan

    Poisonous legacy of phosphate mining in SE Idaho not contained- One issue I wish folks would follow most closly is the massive contamination of soil and water by phosphate mining in the big Western phosphate field centered in SE Idaho. The one organization working hard on this and doing a good job is the Greater…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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