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  • Huge B.C. coal mine that would drain into Montana gets attention from Condoleeza Rice

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is the latest on the proposed Cline Mine, just north of the B.C. border. Montana’s senator Baucus got Secretary of State Rice to urge Canada’s federal government to ask for a more detailed environmental assessment than B.C. requires. However, the government in Ottawa has not taken any action yet. The article below in the…

  • Rocky Barker's blog: Don't plan on a lot of campfires this summer

    Ralph Maughan

    Rocky Barker’s blog today fleshes out what a lot of people are talking about right now in Idaho, Nevada, Montana, and Utah — the coming forest fire season. The winter had below normal precipitation and the spring was generally dry. Dry springs actually reduce the range fire potential because the flammable seasonal grasses don’t grow…

  • Cattle vs. wildlife at Whisky Dick Wildlife Area

    Ralph Maughan

    The news about Gov. Gregoire’s deal with the cattle association to put cattle as a “wildife habitat improvement” technique into the state wildlife areas (purchased with public money) for free grazing is now reached westward across the Cascades. Here is a story by Joel Connelly, the well-known columnist at the Seattle Post Intelligencer. “Cattle vs.…

  • The great Canadian pine forest die-off and grizzly bears

    Ralph Maughan

    Despite the headline, the article says isn’t clear what the huge pine die-off in Alberta (and, not mentioned in the article, nearby B.C.) will have on the grizzly bear. Scientists using bears to battle bugs. By Jeff Holubitsky, CanWest News Service post 1116

  • Small-town Utahns fight proposed large coal-fired power plant

    Ralph Maughan

    If all goes according to plan, Utah will expand electrical production in the next several years by more than 2,000 megawatts. Almost all of it will come from coal-burning power plants, according to the DAQ. Three of the state’s largest plants are slated to expand: Hunter in Emery County, Bonanza in Uintah and IPP in…

  • Report: Drilling squeezes hunters, habitat in the West

    Ralph Maughan

    Report: Drilling squeezes hunters, habitat. By Matthew Brown. Associated Press writer. Casper Star Tribune. In the old sense of the phrase, the real wolf at the door in the West is the energy industry. post 1087

  • Freudenthal's opposition to gas drilling in the Wyoming Range

    Ralph Maughan

    As gas wells spread like cancer across across the upper Green River basin, Wyoming’s governor is listening to public opinion and seems to be hardening his stance against the drive to drill the adjacent mountains on the Bridger-Teton National Forest.  Freudenthal skeptical of Range drilling. By The Associated Press post 1076

  • 'Drilled full of holes?'

    Ralph Maughan

    The gas boys are closing in on the Bridger Teton National Forest and people’s homes now. This is a story about the drilling to come at Bondurant, Wyoming. ‘Drilled full of holes?‘ By Whitney Royster. Casper Star Tribune. post 1052

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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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