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  • Congress establishes a new Wilderness area, and in Idaho!!

    Ralph Maughan

    Wilderness in the Boulder and White Clouds mountains after 40 years of trying! Yesterday the U.S. Senate, just like the U.S. House did earlier this summer, passed a 275,000 acre wilderness bill for the scenic Boulder and White Clouds mountains. They rise on the east side of the famous Sawtooth Valley in central Idaho.  Of…

  • Idaho congressman addresses Governor Otter's concerns about Boulder-White Clouds bill

    Ralph Maughan

    Simpson writes Otter a letter- Rocky Barker has an important column on this many-years-in-the-making-“wilderness” bill. Simpson addresses Otter’s concerns about wilderness bill. Letters from the West. Idaho Statesman. By Rocky Barker. It looks to be that Rep. Simpson mostly just reassures the governor and promises him no changes in the language of the bill.  After…

  • Boulder-White Clouds Wilderness bill is finally introduced in US Senate

    Ralph Maughan

    Will 2010 finally be the year Idaho’s Boulder and White Cloud Mountains get Wilderness protection? Although Representative Simpson (R-Idaho) has not introduced his CIERDA bill this year in the House, Idaho’s two U.S. Senators yesterday introduced it in the Senate. If it moves, it will probably get attached to omnibus or other legislative and sort…

  • Idaho environmental pioneer Ernie Day dies

    Ralph Maughan

    This from Rocky Barker’s blog today, Idaho environmental pioneer Day dies.. I’m sad to learn of the passing of Ernie Day. Ernie taught me that premature compromise with the resource extraction industry never protected anything. I remember his anger when he found us sitting around in one of the early, and of course unproductive meetings…

  • Rocky Barker: Salmon, roadless and wolves will come to a head in 2008

    Ralph Maughan

    Rocky Baker at the Idaho Statesman makes some predictions about 2008. Salmon, roadless and wolves will come to a head in 2008 While I don’t cover the salmon issue a great deal, there is potential for real economic cost and benefit here (unlike wolves which are cultural issue).

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Edward Abbey

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