From the daily archives: Saturday, June 6, 2009
This area hasn’t been grazed by cattle for many years-
I took this photo in late May on Pocatello’s West Bench at the base of the Bannock Mountain Range. Because it is a mixture of city land and Forest Service and no maintained fences, it hasn’t been grazed by cattle or sheep for many years.
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Continue Reading →Homer Lee Wilkes withdraws-
Obama pick to oversee forests withdraws. AP. Updated story.
There had been some controversy over the nomination, and disappointment from conservationists.
Continue Reading →Report issued due to the 2008 spike in Greater Yellowstone grizzly deaths-
Numerous methods are identified, but a smaller number give more “bank for the buck” (the buck being not so much money as political or cultural resistance).
Yellowstone Mortality and Conflicts Reduction Report. IGBST. June 5, 2009
Note: I hope discussion of this […]
Continue Reading →I read this article a couple of weeks ago. Someone had slipped it beneath the office door and upon returning from lunch, I sat down and took the time to read it.
The World at Gunpoint – Derrick Jensen, Orion Magazine
Finally we get to the point. Those who come after, who inherit whatever’s […]
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We did our best, but these Foresters in Washington state are well-schooled in The Way of the Bureaucrat. Despite the sole known Washington wolf pack’s rendezvous site being at the best, most available water source for public land cattle on the unit, livestock described by Don Johnson as looking feeble and “like bait”, the Okanogan-Wenatchee […]
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