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  • Idaho fire nears homes, military range: Fires rage in Idaho, Utah, Nevada

    Ralph Maughan

    IDAHO FIRES Idaho fire nears homes, military range. By Keith Ridley. This is in the SW corner of Idaho, with a portion in Nevada. It is now being called “the Murphy [fire] complex. “This fire has the potential to be one of the worst fires in American history” if it moves north, Hawkins [incident management…

  • Panel backs limits on coalbed methane water use

    Brian Ertz

    I thought this story interesting: The Powder River Basin has a whole lot of water pumping as a result of coalbed methane production – enough to “perennialize these (ephemeral) streams.” Panel backs limits on coalbed methane water use. AP post 1349

  • Due to fires, about half the Bob Marshall Wilderness closed to the public

    Ralph Maughan

    The Ahorn and Fool Creek fires are behaving erratically and lightning has started a bunch of new fires in this wilderness area just to the south of Glacier NP. Story in the Great Falls Tribune. By Eric Newhouse Photos of the Ahorn Fire in the “Bob” post 1342

  • Latest Watersheds Messenger is available

    Ralph Maughan

    The Watersheds Messenger for Summer 2007 is on-line. Here is the pdf version (much better quality). This is the newsmagazine of the Western Watersheds Project. It has a lot of good articles, and they are not the bland generic stuff like that produced by many organizations.

  • Sen. Ken Salazar, Colorado Democrat, puts a hold on Jim Caswells' nomination to head the BLM

    Ralph Maughan

    Senator Salazar is upset about the BLM’s giveaway of the huge and wildlife-rich Roan Plateau in Western Colorado to the energy companies. One the surface, at least, all the Salazar is asking is a 120-day extension to review the Roan Plateau Resource Management Plan. Story in Rocky Barker’s blog. Rocky Barker’s blog: Senator places hold…

  • Governor: Feed grounds necessary in Wyoming

    Ralph Maughan

    Freudenthal is gearing up to defend the indefensible, — Wyoming’s winter elk feed grounds, the continued source of brucellosis transmission in elk and the place where chronic wasting disease will first show up in the Greater Yellowstone elk and deer. If you are going, defend something so wrong, it might just pay off to say…

  • Why cheatgrass wins

    Ralph Maughan

    The major culprit in almost all of the big lower elevation fires in the interior West is cheatgrass, which has a nicer name of downy brome (Bromus tectorum), probably given for the way it is during the brief period is it growing, green, and not ripening. Cheatgrass has taken over the West, greatly increasing fire…

  • Western Watersheds Project urges federal judge to reverse USFWS decision not to list the sage grouse

    Ralph Maughan

    Judge urged to toss ruling that denied sage grouse protection. By Todd Dvorak. AP writer. The oil and gas industry, Farm Bureau, and assorted developers seem to feel immensely threatened by efforts to conserve the sage grouse and with it the remainders of the former “sagebrush sea” of the West. It may be that once…

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Edward Abbey

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