On July 6, the US Fish and Wildlife Service will publish a new proposed rule 10j in the Federal Register, that will make it every easy for state agencies and even private persons to kill wolves even without them being delisted. They won’t have to scientifically prove that wolves are depleting elk herds, essentially they […]
Continue Reading →The Sierra Club sent this out today as one of their emails to activist members (the RAW newsletter)
Dept of Interior: Illusory Integrity and Other Idiocy
Josh Dorner
As faithful RAW readers know, the Department of the Interior has been buffeted by scandal after scandal at its highest levels. Apparently Sec. of the Interior […]
Continue Reading →While Congress has largely disappeared as a threat to the ESA with the defeat of Richard Pombo and change in party control, the Bush Administration is still trying to gut the act.
Their methods are 1. to reduce the administrative protections governing the species (that is, weaken the details because it is often the details […]
Continue Reading →As folks may recall, Wyoming’s US Senator Craig Thomas died recently. Thomas was moving to protect the Wyoming Range mountains from oil and gas leasing and development.
His replacement is appointed Republican John Barrasso. Barrasso responds in the article below, saying that he too wants to protect the area, but worries about the oil companies […]
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