From the daily archives: Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Montana DOL in complicity with Yellowstone Park is at it again, corraling bison, from inside the Park, and sending most to slaughter. Rather than repeat my past reasoning about this, or my rants, there is a good article by George Wuerthner in New West.
Yellowstone Bison Slaughter a Sham. By George Wuerthner. New West.
Continue Reading →This is a long summary of where the bighorn sheep controversy in Idaho stands and who is saying what. I think it’s a useful article for bringing folks up to date.
Bighorn advocates butt heads. By Lynea Newcomer and Kathleen Turner. The Wood River Journal
Continue Reading →Climate Change Impacts More Than Glacier’s Glaciers. By Peter Metcalf. New West.
Continue Reading →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 [...]
Continue Reading →ICL scolds Otter for bighorn sheep policy. Environmental group calls it a ‘top down approach’. By Matt Christensen
Times-News writer.
The governor’s bighorn sheep policy is supposed by announced Feb. 15.
Continue Reading →This is surly true a lot of other places too with the deep snows, . . . and we should remember the vast wildfires that burned not just summer range, but winter range as well last year.
Wildlife showing strains of winter. Deep snows are pushing big-game species into harm’s way. By Jason Kauffman. [...]
Continue Reading →A stupid program designed to help a tiny number of people in a vain attempt to “help to safeguard the County’s economic and cultural viability” (the purpose, according to the County Commissiors).
If these people wanted to safeguard their economic and cultural viability, they should have opposed the massive natural gas industrialization of Sublette County. [...]
Continue Reading →Felice Pace argues that fear of predators in the rural West is real due to constant propaganda. Wolf Tales. Goat, a High Country News blog.
I think Pace is right. Based on my long experience in Idaho, while there are those who stand out in any community, faint-heartedness seems to be the norm in [...]
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