Salazar

  • Speculation on why Salazar?

    Ralph Maughan

    George Wuerthner analysis why Ken Salazar got the nod- Why Salazar?  By George Wuerthner, New West. One interesting thought is that with senator Ken Salazar gone, the much more progressive Mark Udall will become Colorado’s senior senator. I should add that for progressives to improve their senatorial lot in Colorado, Ken Salazar’s appointed replacement cannot…

  • Interior decorating: Obama, Salazar and the Future of America's Public Lands

    Ralph Maughan

    Consensus decision-making is incompatable with the rule of law- Obama, Salazar and the Future of America’s Public Lands. Interior Decorating. By Dr. Brian Horejsi. Counterpunch.

  • Interior nominee Salazar likely to push update, not overhaul, of mining law

    Ralph Maughan

    The 1872 Mining Law is a long-standing embarrassment, but Obama has shown no interest in dumping it- During the primary election season when Obama first came out against significant reform of this land destroying, trillion* dollar give-away, I thought he had merely received bad advice. Raúl Grijalva’s fervent desire to end this law probably weighed…

  • Environmentalists Wary of Obama’s Interior Pick

    Ralph Maughan

    Reaction to Salazar pick in NYT- Environmentalists Wary of Obama’s Interior Pick . John M. Broder. Oh god! Salazar showed up wearing a cowboy hat. Makes you sick. Well everyone should hold their breath and count until the “lesser” nominations.

  • Obama Names Salazar As Secretary of Interior

    Ralph Maughan

    Salazar decribed as a “moderate” and a “broker”- From WaPo. Obama Names Salazar As Secretary of Interior. By Juliet Eilperin, Phil Rucker and Dan Morgan. That is so offensive to hear him described as “a fifth-generation Coloradan whose family settled in the West before the United States’ founding and has ranched and farmed on the…

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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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