October 2007
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Wolf hunt is part of the package for Montana delisting. Opinion. Daily InterLake Montana FWP is planning a wolf hunt after delisting, as the opinion happily indicates. However, FWP has invited wolf conservation groups for their views along with other groups. That is very unlike Idaho. I also get the impression that a first Montana…
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California’s age of megafires. Drought, housing expansion, and oversupply of tinder make for bigger, hotter fires. By Daniel B. Wood. Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. Many factors behind the current California wildlfires are similar to those last summer in Idaho and Montana, except, of course, the sprawl into the “fire plain” is worse,…
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CDV is passed through close contact from domestic and feral dogs causing epidemics that often result in mass mortalities – and is pushing some species to the brink of extinction. Rest of the story. How Canine Distemper Virus Jumps Across Species. Science Daily.
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Federal wildlife agents killed 1.6 million animals in ’06. By Matthew Brown. Associated Press. The federal agency Wildlife Services “serviced” 1.6 million animals last year. Numerically most of them were birds, but a lot of them were animals that many, perhaps most Americans, would rather not see killed to fatten the bottom line for ranchers…
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Off-road activist [Huck] says he’s tossed in the towel. He declares, after ruling, he’ll no longer fight wilderness designations. By Patty Henetz. (link expired) The Salt Lake Tribune. Note the SLT link died, but a found an active link at an off-road activist site. “It’s like battling the Borg: Resistance is futile,” Huck said during…
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In the view of Joan McCarter the problems of drought, lack of water for “traditional” uses and the fires have been aided and abetted by years of short-sighted political leadership in the West. She doesn need to say it, but Idaho has got to be a prime example. Fire, Water and Political Leadership in the…
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Groups have been trying to reform this for a couple generations. Bush has said he will veto it. House panel OKs bill imposing mining royalties. By Noelle Straub. Billings Gazette Washington Bureau Instead of the old nearly free mining clam/patent system, mining operations would have to pay a royalty on “hard rock minerals” like gold,…
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More Nevada gold mines spew more toxic mercury than they reported. By Rocky Barker. Idaho Statesman. Three years ago hardly anyone thought of this, but the fact is southern Idaho waters and part of Utah too is being poisoned by the emissions from the rapidly growing number of open pit gold mines in Nevada. Recent…