Politics
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HB253 Will Remove Department of Livestock’s Management Authority The Buffalo Field Campaign just sent out this press release. For full disclosure, I am a board member of BFC. KC ========================================= Buffalo Field Campaign P.O. Box 957 West Yellowstone, MT 59758 (P) 406-646-0070 (F) 406-646-0071 bfc-media@wildrockies.org http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org Press Release BUFFALO FIELD CAMPAIGN SUPPORTS MONTANA BISON BILL…
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Kathie Olsen, a Bush climate change denier in the National Science Foundation “burrows” into a civil service position. A Loyal Bushie Burrows Into Obama’s System By Elana Schor Talking Points Memo
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The former Idaho governor’s name turns up in a blog, and his wife and spokesman don’t deny it. Is Kempthorne planning a run for president? BY ROCKY BARKER and BRIAN MURPHY Idaho Statesman Now that Dirk Kempthorne is now the Former Secretary of Interior there is speculation that he may run for president in 2012.…
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Bush’s EPA criticized Obama’s new EPA choice for her bad record in New Jersey on toxic waste- Likely EPA pick hit for Jersey record. Politico “In a report released this summer, the EPA’s inspector general slammed New Jersey’s failure to clean up several toxic waste sites in a timely manner, and accused the state’s environmental…
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Ranchers worry about meat packing consolidation. Rocky Barker’s blog, “Letters from the West.” Idaho Statesman So much of politics is about diverting the attention of those affected by policies onto something not very relevant. The wolf is pointed to in order that hunters won’t see the destruction of habitat by livestock, mining, oil and gas…
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Earlier, we ran an exclusive story that the livestock industry and various officials were having a secret meeting at the request of Idaho’s governor to counter the federal courts because they were insisting that sheep operations keep their disease-ridden bands away from bighorn sheep in Hells Canyon (Idaho/Oregon border) and on the lower Salmon River…
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Conservation groups have taken action after the story about ranch hands luring wolves in so they will kill calves, so the wolves will then killed by the government “to protect the livestock.” For Immediate Release, January 3, 2008 Contact: Michael Robinson, (575) 534-0360 Conservationists Request Investigations of Reported Wolf Baiting SILVER CITY, N.M.— Fifteen conservation…
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A Divide as Wolves Rebound in a Changing West. New York Times. By Kirk Johnson The New York Times article today writes of how the West has changed since wolves were introduced 13 years ago with an influx of people who do not have the old fashioned ideas about wolves and are more likely to…