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  • Two Colorado Ranchers charged with shooting 34 elk

    Ralph Maughan

    Ranchers face charges after 34 elk shot dead. By AMY HAMILTON. Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. “Two Northwest Colorado ranchers, apparently frustrated by foraging elk eating hay intended for livestock, now face thousands of dollars in fines and multiple felony charges for allegedly killing 34 elk.”

  • Oil politics alleged in polar bear decision

    Ralph Maughan

    Oil politics alleged in polar bear decision. San Francisco Chronicle. This story is up on many on-line places today.

  • Collapse of the recreational ski village market?

    Ralph Maughan

    Yesterday I posted an article about the bankruptcy of ultra luxury mountain communities — Yelllowstone Club, Promontory, and Tamarack. Here is one of a number still unbuilt, and now being canceled. “An ambitious plan to turn the mostly empty land around Bridger Bowl’s base area into a high-class, king-sized ski, recreation and residential village has…

  • Beaverhead Forest Plan revision

    Ralph Maughan

    This southwest Montana national forest is the largest in Montana, with many mountain ranges, splendid backcountry and scenic frontcountry as well. There are many species of wildlife. I could go on, but the important point is that the comment period on the new forest plan has been extended to the end of April. Not only…

  • Clarks Fork, Blackfoot rivers made free-flowing again.

    Ralph Maughan

    I haven’t posted on this before, although debating and planning for this has gone on for years. Yesterday, however, it came to fruition. The old Milltown Dam near Missoula was breached and two very important rivers were made free-flowing again. There was some positive rhetoric from the politicians. “Sen. Max Baucus, Sen. Jon Tester and…

  • Proposed dam on Cache la Poudre River is controversial in Fort Collins, Colorado

    Ralph Maughan

    Divide develops over dam. A proposed $431 million dam and reservoir project north of Fort Collins riles those who see it as a disastrous strangling of the picturesque Cache la Poudre River. By Michael Booth. The Denver Post. The dam is said to be justified by projected growth of new homes. Instead it is a…

  • Diamond G Ranch agrees to end grazing in part of the Dunoir Valley

    Ralph Maughan

    Ranch agrees to end grazing near Park. Depredations pushed Diamond G to accept deal on federal land. Ranch agrees to end grazing near park. Billings Gazette. By Mike Stark. This is great news! While it hasn’t been in the news much lately, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, this ranch was a hot spot…

  • B.C. government shifts away from development of Flathead Valley

    Ralph Maughan

    Well maybe . . . the article is more of a hope than report of the facts. Victoria shifts away from development of Flathead Valley. But permanent protection still needed for rare treasure. Kathryn Molloy, Vancouver Sun

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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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