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  • New Paths Toward the Loss of Our Public Lands

    Brian Ertz

    Bill Willers describes the looting of your public domain : Subsidies, Volunteerism and Outsourcing New Paths Toward the Loss of Our Public Lands – by William Willers counterpunch

  • Public lands as carbon sinks

    Brian Ertz

    When a lot of folk think about public lands and the value of these places to serve our efforts to curb global climate change they think development. They think of wind farms or solar arrays. If you think about it you can’t really blame them, that’s all they’ve had to think about – with the…

  • Ninth Circuit orders Bureau of Land Management to evaluate wilderness values on public lands

    Brian Ertz

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 15, 2008 CONTACT: Brent Fenty 541-330-2638 Jon Marvel 208-788-2290 Ninth Circuit orders Bureau of Land Management to evaluate wilderness values on public lands PORTLAND, ORE. — The Bureau of Land Management must rewrite its land use plan for southeast Oregon due to a landmark decision from the Ninth Circuit Court of…

  • Senate to consider major public lands bill

    Ralph Maughan

    It has over 90 titles. Some of these are very controversial with conservationists, such as the Owyhee Public Lands Management Act in Idaho. News Release from Campaign for America’s Wilderness. Senate to consider major public lands bill.

  • PEER tells Senate hearing off-road vehicle regulation going badly on public lands

    Ralph Maughan

    There is a “showdown” hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee June 5 on the regulation of off-road vehicles on public lands. This is a news release from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. No doubt off-road groups will have a different view. – – – – – – For Immediate Release: June 4,…

  • Oil & Gas eyes your public lands

    Brian Ertz

    With increasing fuel prices, the oil and gas industry is chomping at the bit to get at vast oil and gas reserves on your public lands. Oil and Gas on Public Lands Off-Limits to Exploration – ENN Report Offers Road Map for Energy Relief [Bush’s] BLM With climate change, mining, livestock grazing, timber, exotic species…

  • Owyhee Country public lands bill passes key U.S. Senate committee

    Ralph Maughan

    Yesterday I posted about the passage of the bill to protect the vast Wyoming Mountain range from oil and gas — a big matter for Wyoming. The same committee also passed Idaho Senator Mike Crapo’s “Owyhee bill,” which failed at the last minute at the end of the last Congress. This has been very controversial…

  • US House Natural Resources Committee has hearing on ORV damage on public lands

    Ralph Maughan

    First, the Las Vegas Review Journal. OHV misuse criticized in U.S. House .Off-road fans, critics face off: Even riders see damages left by few. House panel told public lands overrun by ORVs. Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT). “. . . the 300 arrests and 37 injuries at a gathering of 1,000 ORV users at…

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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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