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Alaska

  • Obama to announce oil drilling and leasing moratoriums

    Ralph Maughan

    Six month moratorium on new deep water well permits; lease auctions off Virginia and Alaska coast put in suspension. Partial ban on new spuds- There is finally action by the Administration on oil leases and permits to drill in various places off-shore. It is expected that today the President will announce there will be no…

  • Alaska Senator: Oil Company Whore

    Ralph Maughan

    Lisa Murkowski blocks Senate bill To Raise Oil Spill Liability Cap (with VIDEO)- Murkowski said wanted to protect the “mom and pop” oil companies from having to face large liabilities. Mom and pop oil companies? If you can’t pay for your damages, you should not get a permit! Story. – – – – Update May…

  • Wood bison are on the comeback

    Ken Cole

    May be reintroduced to Alaska as an experimental, non-essential population. Alaska wants to reintroduce wood bison from Canada but they are currently listed as an endangered species by the USFWS. In response there is an effort to classify them as an experimental, non-essential population under the 10(j) rule so that there will be less protection…

  • Alaska Board of Game nominee cites Bible as he skins a wolf

    Ralph Maughan

    (VIDEO): Legislature To Vote On Confirmation April 9- I’m on vacation, but this item on Huffington Post was too good to pass up. It is just pathetic that a person like this could rise to a position of overseeing wildlife management in such an important place as Alaska. Story on Al Barette. Huffington Post.

  • Biologists seek ouster of new Alaska wildlife conservation chief

    Ken Cole

    They say that the director doesn’t even have the background for an entry-level position. In February, Corey Rossi, the Alaska Division of Wildlife, Wildlife Director, wrote an opinion piece for the Anchorage Daily News which opined that wildlife should be managed under the abundance-based management model which “requires man to work with the land to…

  • Wolves might have killed Alaskan teacher

    Ralph Maughan

    This might be the second wolf-caused death in North America in the last hundred or so years- There were a lot of breathless stories about this yesterday, but the one below seems to be more current and complete. Wolves may have killed village teacher. Chignik: Police unsure whether death happened before, after bite. By James…

  • Gordon Haber feared dead

    Ralph Maughan

    Friend of the Toklat pack in Denali National Park thought dead in air crash- Gordon Haber feared dead. By Craig Medred. Alaska Dispatch. “Biologist Gordon Haber loved wolves. Most of all, he loved the wolves of the Toklat pack in Denali National Park, and it now it appears that love has cost him his life.”

  • Alaska's Rat Island apparently rid of its namesake pest

    Ken Cole

    Unfortunate side effect to poisoning effort was the loss of 43 bald eagles and many other birds. Alaska’s Rat Island apparently rid of its namesake pest By Erika Bolstad | McClatchy Newspapers

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