From the daily archives: Friday, June 19, 2009

Mike Hudak's Podcast: Politics Trumps Science in Rangeland Management

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How they do it.

In this 15-minute audio presentation, Mike Hudak explains how ranchers use politicians to intimidate land managers from the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management into providing rancher-friendly livestock management that is often detrimental to wildlife. Hudak cites passages from his book Western Turf Wars: The Politics of Public Lands Ranching [...]

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New FS Chief Tidwell gives thoughts in Missoulian interview

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New USFS chief to address climate effects, watersheds. By Rob Chaney of the Missoulian.

Earlier. Gail Kimbell out; Tom Tidwell in as new Forest Service Chief. June 17, 2009

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A Big Bonehead

(Cartoon by: Matt Wuerker | Date: May. 24, 2012)

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey