Wildlife News
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The Biden Administration and Secretary of Interior Haaland are ready to destroy one of the primary protections of the 1964 Wilderness Act. The Biden Administration, with the apparent support of Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland, has sided with some Alaskan Natives and the previous Trump administration to approve the construction of a road through the…
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The Forest Service spends billions of dollars fighting fires and implementing fuel treatments like logging and prescribed burns to reduce large wildfires. A further problem with the emphasis on logging the forest is that a significant acreage charred each year is in non-forested landscapes like sagebrush, grasslands, and chaparral where “fuel reductions” by logging have…
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The folks at Population Balance have a lot of resources on the fundamental issue facing humans, every other species and the planet itself. While it is no longer ‘acceptable’ within the environmental community and society at large to mention the obvious elephant in the room, human population driving every problem we face, Population Balance is…
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Semantic is implied meaningful difference among words, sometimes lost to those who use and identify with them. A word’s semantic contains deep difference and are often co-opted to benefit those who use them for an end, from a polemic like this to immorally conflating competing words and their moral. I argue that such is the…
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After Donald Trump’s election, many wildlands advocates have become depressed and disheartened and feel that conservation efforts are over. The Trump administration will no doubt try to eliminate, thwart, or dismantle conservation laws and policies. It is important to remember this is nothing new. The old phrase “two steps forward and one step back” often…
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You may remember a bit more than 8 years ago when Hillary Clinton described about 1/3 of Americans as deplorables and she was given hell for it. Politicians cant tell the truth. That is us. A country does not sink to this level of depravity unless it is deeply sick in its body politic. We…
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The American Experiment had a pretty good run of two and a half centuries. It was far from perfect but despite its flaws it was a model here and around the world. Obama said something about 20 years ago that we are not red states or blue states, but as time would tell his rhetorical…
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The Gallatin Range south of Bozeman is the last major unprotected landscape in the northern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. A minimum of 250,000 acres of the Gallatin Range as advocated by the Gallatin Yellowstone Wilderness Alliance should be designated wilderness under the 1964 Wilderness Act. The Gallatin Range is a key area for wildlife, and home…
