Wildlife Habitat
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This story is on Washington governor Chris Gregoire’s sellout to the cattle interests in NE Washington where they are being allowed to graze for free on land purchased for wildlife (not cow) habitat. Story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Washington State grazing project draws threat of lawsuit. By Chris McGann. Earlier stories on this: March 27.…
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Black gold’s tarnish seen in Canada. Cash and jobs flow bountifully from Alberta’s oil sands, but they come at a cost to the environment and native peoples. By Tim Reiterman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer. Northern Alberta is being destroyed environmentally by pit mining for oil sands. Worse still, the pollution doesn’t stay in Alberta,…
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CPAWS has just made a video on wildlife and the trans-Canada Highway that runs through part of Banff National Park. Significant expenditures have been made to build fencing and wildlife overpasses and underpasses. These measures work, but they have to be designed correctly, put in the right place, and one kind of crossing does not…
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As you may know, the Jonah were are talking about here is not the guy eaten by the whale, but a whale of a gas field SW of Pinedale, WY, out in the high desert, or at least what was a desert before it became a vast industrial sacrifice zone. With all the gas leases…
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I was reporting on this major fire in the Wyoming Range before I went to Central Idaho for five days — The Horse Creek Fire in the Wyoming Range. Since then, it has doubled in size, but containment is now 100%. Containment does not mean a fire is out. It means the fire’s spread to…
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The scientists say: “Speaker after speaker emphasized that the status quo approach was not tenable — conserving sage grouse and sage grouse habitat while also developing the rich gas, oil and coal-bed methane fields of Wyoming.” Industry turns it into: “Ranchers, oil and gas men, biologists, conservationists and state and federal officials are meeting to…
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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) got 100,000 public comments on their plan to guide oil and gas development in the upper Green River Basin. This is a wildlife rich and highly scenic area. People care about it in Wyoming and outside as well. Story. Most favor conservation for Pinedale management area. By Whitner…
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The Uhl Hill fire inside Grand Teton National Park is burning near where the Teton wolf pack of days gone by used to den. Meanwhile, outside Grand Teton, the Horse Creek fire in the Wyoming Range has grown from 800 to 1200 acres. The Nylander Creek Fire, south of the Horse Creek Fire, is 100…