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  • National Forests to get $228-million of stimulus funds to fix forest roads and bridges

    Ralph Maughan

    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…

  • Idaho wildlife refuges, hatcheries get stimulus

    Ralph Maughan

    Salazar has annonced $275,000,000 (275-million) of the stimulus money for National Wildlife Refuges and fish hatcheries. It’s good news that $1.7 million went to Idaho. Over a million of it went to a fish hatchery built to replace spawning beds destroyed by the Dvorshak Reservoir on the North Fork of the Clearwater. Montana got $3-million.…

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Edward Abbey

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