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Second rupture under Yellowstone River in four years makes Keystone look more ominous- There has been a massive rupture of the Poplar oil pipeline under the Yellowstone River near Glendive, Montana. This is about a hundred miles upstream from the North Dakota border and the Yellowstone’s confluence with the Missouri River. The pipeline lay buried…
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Press release Contact: Stephany Seay, Buffalo Field Campaign, 406-640-0109, bfc-media@wildrockies.org Yellowstone National Park. Gardiner Basin, MT. Since Wednesday an estimated 200 of America’s last wild, migratory buffalo have been crammed into tribal stock trailers at Yellowstone National Park’s Stephens Creek bison trap. The bison have been taken to tribal slaughter facilities by tribal…
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The plan to take away our public lands has its best chance ever with this new Congress. Here is some recent news from various places. In Utah, Ex-secretary of Interior Babbit denounces the land grab- In Salt Lake City, Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbit has denounced Utah’s role in the effort to seize…
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They were “ugly . . . slimy . . . creepy.” Idaho state rep. Ken Andrus- Disappointment came this week to Ilah Hickman, an 8th-grade student in Boise, when for the fifth time, the Idaho Legislature refused to name a state amphibian. Hickman was championing a species of large salamander, the Idaho Giant Salamander, as…
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Wyoming Wildlife Advocates issues report with q. and a.- The usual winter feeding of elk on the National Elk Refuge at Jackson, Wyoming, is just starting now. Every year they try to hold off, and once and a while it is deemed not to have been needed. The elk get alfalfa pellets, although elk on…
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Yes, it looks like pneumonia. It usually is. It comes from domestic sheep most of the time. On December 15, Ken Cole reported in the News, “Bighorn Sheep Near the North Entrance of Yellowstone National Park are Dying from Pneumonia.” Well, it continues. Now Brett French reports in the Missoulian that 30 are now dead.…
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Wyoming legislature considers a rancher grudge bill due to Western Watershed’s Jonathan Ratner- By Ralph Maughan (opinion) – – – – – Last year the Idaho Legislature passed an an overreaching “ag-gag” bill because an animal rights group had videoed some dairy workers abusing cattle. This came despite the the dairy ending up fined as…
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“The Great Republican Land Heist: Cliven Bundy and the politicians who want to plunder the West” Christopher Ketcham details the rancher/Republican grab for our outdoor heritage- Cristopher Ketcham has been writing about the Western public lands now for a couple years. He is in the mold of Bernard DeVoto who wrote the influential column, “The…