Wildlife Habitat
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I was just in this country. It is not well known, but scenic and wildlife rich public land. Given the abundance of windy private lands, why don’t they build their wind farms there and make the landowner some money. BLM to hold public meetings. Idaho Statesman. Jarbidge Mountains from site of wind farm proposal. Photo…
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‘It’s pretty disgusting’. By Ben Neary. Casper Star Tribune. Here’s another thing the oil companies don’t mention in their drilling propaganda.
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Brian Ertz posted a story several days ago about this topic. This is my take. In the last week we have had the President’s answer to high energy prices, drill for domestic oil, and develop oil shale deposits. The primary economic result of this will be to enrich the oil companies even more. They don’t…
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Good for this basically Republican group, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. News release from TRCP. “TRCP Sues Interior Department over Mismanaged Wyoming Energy Project. Multiple violations of federal law drive sportsmen’s group to action on Pinedale Anticline, currently targeted for greatly expanded drilling and development” Matthew Brown’s AP story. Group sues to block drilling.
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Appeals court reopens long quieted Jarbidge road fight. Rocky Barker. Letters from the West. Idaho Statesman. Significantly Mother Nature sent a huge boulder crashing down on road the other day. Hopefully that is a good omen for the future. Copyright © Katie Fite
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Oil and gas leases on Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front pulled from auction. AP A tremendous effort has been made by conservationists, the state, even oil companies to keep drilling off of Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front. So it only makes sense for the Montana Lands Department not to auction the small acreage of state land, especially because it…
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Rescue may be on the way to the threatened wild country just north of the U.S. border in British Columbia. It depends on the outcome of the U.S. election. Some folks on this forum, including myself, have complained about the failure by the candidates to talk about specific conservation issues. Obama’s positiion was announced when…
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The train route through the Park is the major killer, but hardly the only human source of mortality. Story. Grizzly bear decline blamed on humans. Trains top killers in Banff, Jasper parks, says report. Cathy Ellis, The Calgary Herald