June 2011
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Salazar extends ban on filing new mining claims on a million acres of public land near the canyon- Addition: Sierra Club happy (see bottom) Salazar put the ban in place in 2009 after worry he would not. Now he has extended it six months. The Bush Administration had encouraged filing claims. which are property rights.…
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President Obama’s recent nominee for assistant secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks for the Department of the Interior is catching criticism from some of the industry groups she would be charged with regulating. Rebecca Wodder, CEO of American Rivers and former Wilderness Society official would be Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s second in command. As head…
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Canadian tar sands are not just about turning Alberta’s boreal forest into a wasteland. Transport of the product has many dangers, ill-effects. ____________ They haul their giant equipment around the world disrupting the roadside environment to dig tar sands in Alberta, turning hundreds of square miles into lifeless pits. Ah, but they produce oil! They…
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Unprovoked attack leaves grandma dead while protecting one year old grandson- I wonder if the cows will be showing up at bus stops sizing up which children (or seniors) they can stomp to death 😉 For sure, cows kills far more people than wolves do. Maybe shelters should be built for the children. Family says…
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To Convene a ‘Wildlife Congress’ in 2012 Some in the state (see: groups like Sportsman for Fish and Wild[sic]life) like to suggest that the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) operations are paid for exclusively by sale of hunting and fishing licenses and tags and so, the logic goes, hunters and anglers ought have…
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The Campbell-DeFazio amendment, which would have cut Wildlife Services’ “Livestock Protection” program by $11 Million, failed 132-287. Only 30 Republican’s voted for it.
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Protection of this fabled international stream has emerged over the last few years without any formal designations- There have been many threats over the years the North Fork and its vast drainage, most seeming to emerge up in British Columbia, the headwaters. B.C. conservation groups have hoped for enlarged provincial parks, and Americans have had…
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It turns out the size of these monster loads of oil equipment can be reduced- We kept hearing that they had to come over Highway 12 and they were “X” big, . . . end of discussion. That wasn’t so. Permits have now been issued for smaller, giant loads. However, will this mean twice as…