George W. Bush

  • Obama's Environmental Policies Reflect Bush

    Ralph Maughan

    Obama’s environmental policies reflect Bush’s. By John H. Weis. Op-ed in the Salt Lake Tribune My opinion. Ralph Maughan. Obama is interesting in abating climate change and some high profile issues, but as we have complained many times he doesn’t seem to have any feeling for the public lands of the West, except maybe for…

  • Audio: A BLM insider speaks

    Ralph Maughan

    Bush’s national recreation director tells why he quit- Audio: A BLM insider speaks. Rodger Schmitt talks about why he resigned his position as national recreation director. December 12, 2008 by Emily Steinmetz and Marty Durlin. High Country News. Schmitt confirms your worst fears about how the Bushies ran the agency.

  • Some great posts from Demarcated Landscapes

    Ralph Maughan

    On W, the environmental Scrooge Balance Nature, Eat a Fetus. Related to the second story above is an interesting one I heard today. A  friend of mine reported to a livestock operator family that their heifer was stuck in a cattle guard. Their sympathetic response, “I guess we’ll have hamburger tonight.” One anecdote doesn’t prove…

  • EPA Moves to Ease Clean Air Rules for National Parks

    Ralph Maughan

    Another massively offensive attempt to gut the outdoors by the outgoing Administration- EPA Moves to Ease Air Rules for Parks. Regional Administrators Decry Decision. By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer. Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Trying to keep the air around and in the national parks has been a 30-year battle. One that is being…

  • Salon Magazine releases a shocking report on Bush's EPA

    Ralph Maughan

    The EPA’s Stalin era- “It’s absolutely shocking what’s going on,” say insiders. Secretive changes have diluted science and jeopardized public health. Will Obama overcome Bush’s toxic legacy? . . . Salon Magazine The EPA’s Stalin Era. By Rebecca Clarren

  • Bush, Kempthorne up to last minute mischief

    Ralph Maughan

    Beware, the long nightmare is not over yet- The New York Times describes and warns of anti-public land and anti-conservation actions underway or contemplated by the worst Administration in American history (my view) in their last 2 1/2 months in office. Last-Minute Mischief. Editorial by the New York Times. – – – – – Examples…

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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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