From the daily archives: Friday, July 1, 2011

Daniel Ashe confirmed by U.S. Senate as the new Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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Career professional in agency to assume duties immediately after a long series of Republican “holds” on his nomination-

The Fish and Wildlife Service has been led since January 2009 Acting Director Rowan Gould.

“Holds” in the U.S. Senate on bills and nominations have become a kind of one-person filibuster. It is becoming difficult for any […]

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First photo in 40 years of grizzly bear in Washington State’s North Cascades

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Though USFWS has long estimated 5-10 grizzlies in area, there have been no photos-

Grizzly bear photographed in the North Cascades. Seattle Post Intelligencer

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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