From the daily archives: Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Brucellosis Zone Could Expand Beyond Yellowstone

On June 22, 2011 By

The state of Montana is considering expanding the area around Yellowstone where livestock must be vaccinated and tested for the livestock disease brucellosis after several elk tested positive for the disease in the Ruby Mountains.

Montana animal disease zone could expand – AP

What this may mean for wildlife in the area is still […]

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A new, sometimes lethal, tick bite infection spreads

On June 22, 2011 By

Babesiosis, spread by deer ticks, could come to rival Lyme disease-

Ticks are an incredible reservoir of nasty diseases, and it seems like new ones are frequently discovered. Unfortunately, all too many are transmitted by the hard-to-see, small deer tick, which is much more common in the Eastern U.S.  The larger, creepy-looking Rocky Mountain wood […]

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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