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  • Supreme Court rebuffs ranchers on Mexican Spotted Owl

    Ralph Maughan

    A welcome surprise- High court rejects appeal in spotted owl dispute. “The Supreme Court has decided to let stand a Bush administration designation of 8.6 million acres in four Western states as critical habitat for an endangered owl.” Associated Press.

  • 9th Circuit makes it easier for citizens to temporarily stop a gov't project

    Ralph Maughan

    Court of Appeals limits scope of Supreme Court decision and overturns Judge Molloy- A couple years ago in Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council the U. S. Supreme Court continued its trend toward make it harder to temporarily stop government actions before irreparable harm was done. Applying this viewpoint, Montana federal district Judge Molloy let…

  • Enviros back Sotomayor for Supreme Court

    Ralph Maughan

    Likely new Justice expected to help stem anti-environmental trend by the Court’s activist conservative justices- The last term of the Supreme Court was the most anti-environmental in memory, ruling against conservation groups in all cases. New Chief Justice Roberts joined with Justice Scalia and other conservative justices to ignore settled law, and precedent,* so to…

  • Judge Sonia Sotomayor: an environmental pragmatist

    Ralph Maughan

    Will she bring some balance back to a Supreme Court dominated by conservative judicial activists? Judge Sonia Sotomayor: an environmental pragmatist. By Jean Williams. Examiner.com

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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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