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  • Iowa’s Vilsack Likely Pick For Secretary of Agriculture

    Ralph Maughan

    WaPO says environmentalists and “food groups” reacted positively- Obama to name Vilsack for Agriculture. By Philip Rucker and Dan Morgan. Washington Post Staff Writers. Vilsack was a popular governor of Iowa. He has been a major politician. His expertise in agriculture seems to come more from being a governor than from intimate knowledge of policy.…

  • Environmental groups, scientists cheer Obama appointments

    Ralph Maughan

    The cheer in the story is for the Energy, Climate Change, EPA nominations- Environmental groups, scientists cheer Obama appointments. LA Times. By Jim Tankersley and Tom Hamburger

  • Congressional Dems eye reversal of recent and pending Bush anti-environmental regs

    Ralph Maughan

    Maybe we won’t have to wait for Obama- This would be incredible! Dems eye midnight regulations reversal. By Eria Lovely and Ryan Gram. Politico.

  • Bush's seven deadly environmental sins

    Ralph Maughan

    How Bush made a mockery of the nation’s environmental laws and values — and what Obama must do to get us back on track- Story in Salon.com (Salon Magazine). By Katharine Mieszkowski The article doesn’t just speak of Bush sin, but how Obama can redeem on the environment.

  • Obama's government transition web site

    Ralph Maughan

    Change.gov– We have been talking a lot about the new government, and today the government transition web site appeared. Maybe your ideas and objections can be sent there. APPLY FOR A JOB IN THE NEW ADMINISTRATION ! – – – – – – Updated (11-7). Transition Site Echoes Campaign Pledge of Open Government. Personal Democracy…

  • Regarding Kempthorne's last minute regs to weaken the ESA

    Ralph Maughan

    Obama has already said he will void it (but that is not always easy to do)- Feds Rush To Ease Endangered Species Rules. 15 reviewers, 200,000 comments, 32 hours to go through all of them. by Dina Cappiello. Common Dreams.

  • McCain, Obama Talk Sportsmen’s Issues with Field & Stream

    Ralph Maughan

    McCain, Obama Talk Sportsmen’s Issues with Field & Stream. By Matthew Frank. New West. Some folks will like to hear this . . . “[Obama’s] favorite piece of public land is Yellowstone.” All in all, too much talk about guns. This should be a minor issue for hunters now that the Supreme Court interpreted the…

  • What Westerners would love to ask the candidates

    Ralph Maughan

    They say the West is going to be in play for once and and maybe decide the 2008 presidential race. However, the candidates are not really talking about Western issues. Yes, Obama came out against the Cline coal pit mine that would pollute the Flathead River as its runs into the United States. He also…

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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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