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  • Roads, especially I-90, keep grizzlies from reinhabiting good grizzly habitat

    Ralph Maughan

    Biologists seek answers to grizzly bear migration roadblocks- Biologists seek answers to grizzly bear migration roadblocks. By Jim Robbins. New York Times (in the Seattle Times). Interstate 90, which cuts through miles of mountainous country, is a huge barrier to the migration of all large wildlife species. I think remediation is in order.

  • End of the grazing season. Devastation as usual

    Ralph Maughan

    Oh, what a comparison! Last October a number of us visited the Lost River Ranger District in an area called Pine Creek. We went with the district ranger and the Supervisory Range Conservationist. It was pretty embarrassing. Some of the awful photos went up on Google Earth. End of 2007 grazing season in an unnamed…

  • Flathead County, Montana to consider large bond to conserve open space

    Ralph Maughan

    Scenic Montana county with exploding population seeks $10-million from voters- Whenever I visit the area, I try to take a few photos of the disappearing rural countryside. Story: Flathead open space bond on ballot. By Michael Jamison of the Missoulian

  • I've been in the central Idaho backcountry

    Ralph Maughan

    Since Friday, I’ve been mostly in the central Idaho backcountry. So there have been just a few posts. It’s incredible how much of central Idaho has burned since 2000 when I finished my last edition of Hiking Idaho. On the other hand, at the present autumn colors are just tremendous. Warm Springs Creek. Frank Church…

  • Utah Guv: ORV off-trail damage an 'abomination,' crackdown is coming

    Ralph Maughan

    Utah’s Governor Huntsman wants a crackdown on ATV abuse- Guv: ORV off-trail damage an ‘abomination,’ crackdown is coming. By Robert Gehrke. The Salt Lake Tribune Although an off road vehicle spokesman condemned the governor, Huntsman is a dirt bike rider. – – – – – – Related. Oct. 7. ATV riders: Don’t be the bad…

  • Study shows mimimal risk to common farm birds from wind turbines

    Ralph Maughan

    Wind turbines and birds- “A recent study has concluded that wind turbines pose less of a risk to farmland birds than previously thought.” Birds Not At Risk From Wind Turbines [misleading headline]. Red Orbit. While the study on European farmland birds shows small effect — good news — the headline above overgeneralizes.

  • 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…

  • Colorado wolf supporters push Flat Tops Wilderness area as reintroduction site

    Ralph Maughan

    Wolves for Colorado in the Flat Tops? WildEarth Guardians is petitioning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore wolves to four Colorado areas with the most emphasis on the Flat Tops area north of Glenwood Springs (part of it is a Wilderness area). The other areas in the petition are “the Grand Mesa-Uncompahgre-Gunnison national…

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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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