From the daily archives: Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Wyoming State AFL-CIO asks BLM to pull gas leases from scenic, wildlife rich part of the Red Desert

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Normally we expect to have organized labor in favor of developing big projects, but the “18,000-member union has sent a formal protest to the Bureau of Land Management concerning oil and gas leasing in Wyoming.”

Specifically, the AFL-CIO is protesting the leasing of 200,000 acre Adobe Town area in Sweetwater County near Rock Springs.

This […]

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Mexican wolf restoration update for October

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The Mexican wolf situation has improved slightly this year with more wild-born pups than in the past, although the population remains dangerously low.

Here is the latest update from Arizona Game and Fish.

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Fight begins over oil and gas exploration on the scenic Bridger-Teton National Forest

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In the southern part of the Salt River Range (Spring Creek). Bridger-Teton National Forest. Photo Copyright Ralph Maughan.

Ugly and environmentally disruptive natural gas wells will not necessarily stay out on the high desert near Pinedale, WY. The Bridger-Teton National Forest embraces the highlands around Pinedale and north to Jackson […]

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Two arrested for poaching an elk in Yellowstone Park

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They were just inside the Park’s northern boundary.

Story in the Bozeman Chronicle.

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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