environmental politics

  • Senate and House pass budget bill with wolf delisting rider.

    Ken Cole

    President Obama will sign the bill into law and wolves will no longer enjoy the protection of the Endangered Species Act. The House and Senate passed a budget bill which included the rider to delist wolves in Idaho, Montana and parts of Oregon, Washington, and Utah but leaves the status of wolves in Wyoming unchanged.…

  • Doug and Andrea Peacock on Montana’s Grizzly Bears, the Late Edward Abbey and the Fight to Save the Wilderness

    Ken Cole

    Democracy Now!, broadcasting from Bozeman, MT, interviews Doug and Andrea Peacock. Doug & Andrea Peacock on Montana’s Grizzly Bears, the Late Edward Abbey and the Fight to Save the Wilderness Democracy Now! JUAN GONZALEZ: Yes. Doug Peacock, I’d like to ask you, you’ve been, in some of your writing and in your interviews of late,…

  • Republican Senator Wants to limit NEPA Review.

    Ken Cole

    From American Lands Alliance: The Senate is currently debating the economic stimulus bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (HR 1), that recently passed the House. Senators are offering amendments to make changes to the bill. We are very concerned about an amendment offered by Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) that waives the National…

  • Greens Send Obama Quick Fix List

    Ralph Maughan

    A list of things that can be done quickly- A lot of these are easy and are on my list. The reception these items get will tell us a lot, after what looks like a “just fair” and maybe pretty poor choice for Interior. Greens Send Obama Quick Fix List. By Bill Schneider. New West

  • Environmentalists [said to] draft bold roadmap for Obama

    Ralph Maughan

    Perhaps, but where is the public lands grazing reform? These are the establishment groups’ views. Environmentalists draft bold roadmap for Obama. By Dina Cappliello. AP in the Huffington Post.

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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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