George Wuerthner wrote a letter to the editor making a great point about the double-standard regarding livestock/wolf conflicts – especially on public lands :
In our national parks it’s illegal to leave out picnic baskets because it will lead to human-bear conflicts. To save bears, humans are fined if they fail to put away food.
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I found this video that shows solar power underway with a deemphasis on remote solar collection in land-destroying mega-farm and vast transmission lines to electricity load centers.
Orchards of the sun on space.com. Let’s hope Obama will go this route. Not only is it better for our […]
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Click on “highest influence” in the left hand column at BlogNetNews Idaho
Continue Reading →Today is the 35th anniversary of the ESA. Michael J. Robinson wrote the essay below for this forum-
Thirty five years ago today, on December 28, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon signed into law the Endangered Species Act, intended not just to stave off extinction, but more broadly to conserve the ecosystems on which endangered […]
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