Wildlife Habitat
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Stopping the oil and gas leasing is not enough, Bill Schneider. New West. The Forest Service is not protecting the area from off-road vehicles and parts of the Front could fill up with trophy homes. An ominus sign on the Rocky Mountain Front. Montanans will recognize that is not “Buffalo Hill,” but famous landmark Haystack…
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Robert Wharff, executive director of Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, Wyoming (SFW-WY) recently posted in response to some criticism of the organization on this blog. In the same thread as Nate Helm (SFW-ID) commented, Wharff did likewise. Here is Robert Wharff’s post:
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The BLM has released a new inventory of oil and gas resources on 99 million acres of public lands of the West. It is a deceitful report, and the report will be a major weapon the oil and gas industry is going to use to turn the West into an industrial wasteland. Anyone who spends…
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This Congress finally died (adjourned sine die) after passing a massive bill full of good, bad, and mixed, but almost entirely unrelated matters–“Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006”. Among the good items was a legislative ban on new oil and gas leasing along the 100 mile long Rocky Mountain Front to the south…
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The results of this study probably won’t surprise anyone, but that doesn’t mean that the same thing won’t happen the next mine. The “rosy scenario” has many more lives than we do. Story in Helena Independent Record. By Eve Byron. “Past predictions on mining impacts to water quality often were faulty, which led to increased…
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Here is an interesting post on the Western Watersheds Project blog. Grace at Carrizo Plain?
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A technical document, part of the current draft environmental impact statement on Yellowstone snowmobile use tells that the requirement that snowmobilers have guides has reduced, but not eliminated, the stress snowmobiles create on the wintering wildlife. Bald Eagles are the species that show the most stress, followed by elk and coyotes. While the grooming of…
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Over on Alan Gregory’s blog there is a discussion of urban deer. It’s not just a matter of concern in the East. It’s in the West too, even including Wyoming. The Urban Deer ‘problem’