Idaho
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Nevada wants to keep regulation out of federal hands for selfish reasons According to the Las Vegas Sun the battle over the huge mercury plume from the recently-closed (again) Jerritt Canyon mine is really over Nevada keeping control of regulating its gold mining industry. Closing mine part of bigger battle. State wants to keep feds…
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This area hasn’t been grazed by cattle for many years- I took this photo in late May on Pocatello’s West Bench at the base of the Bannock Mountain Range. Because it is a mixture of city land and Forest Service and no maintained fences, it hasn’t been grazed by cattle or sheep for many years.…
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Conflict of interest results in suppressed study ? Note: a more robust story than initially has been linked to below Marie Bulgin is Coordinator of the University of Idaho’s Caine Veterinary Teaching and Research Center, a prominent research facility that has investigated potential links between domestic sheep disease and bighorn die-offs. At the same time…
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Article below is about a mudflow near Ketchum, orginating from the Castle Rock Fire area, but there a numerous slides around southern Idaho- June is often a fairly wet month in Idaho, which is mostly an arid or semi-arid state. The end of May and continuing into June has brought a lot of precipitation into…
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Didymo, a disgusting slime on the rocks, is now in the South Fork of the Boise River- Invasive algae confirmed in South Fork of Boise River. Add didymo, aka rock snot, to the list of creepy stuff that we don’t want to spread in Idaho’s waters. By Roger Phillips. Idaho Statesman.
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Idaho will get more than any other state- This could do a lot of good for water quality and fisheries if the money is used to replace culverts with bridges that allow the passage of fish upstream. Here is the AP article on it by Matthew Daly. There is irony that Idaho has received more…
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The damn thing was closed. They started up again in March- Thanks to Justin Hayes (Idaho Conservation League efforts), the incredibly toxic Jerrit Canyon gold mine in northern Nevada was shut down in 2008. I thought that was the end of this particular source of mercury pollution (more mercury than many coal fired power plants…
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Idaho Values Alliance and sole employee leaves for state with no wolves- Bryan Fischer came to Idaho in 2006. He spent most of his time lobbying in favor of his vision of families and against a more inclusive view. Although he was just an one man operation, he also had time to rail against wolves…