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Activists Take Over OCA Meeting and Call Attention to Anti-Wolf Legislation
Corvallis, OR – On Friday, February 10th, activists from both Seattle and Portland Animal Defense League and Cascadia Earth First! infiltrated the spring board meeting of the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association to confront the group on its anti-wolf propaganda and recent [...]
Continue Reading →Oregon Wild announces contest to name the wolf, now just “OR7″, that has crossed the state, maybe headed for California-
The conservation group Oregon Wild just announced a two-part contest for Oregon children and teenagers to suggest names for “OR-7”. This lone wolf’s 300 journey across Oregon has captured the imagination of many. Here is [...]
Continue Reading →The “99%” beats international oil lobby for the time being!
The #Occupy movement — Americans figuring out they they are being pushed, stolen from, and disrespected by the top 1% is beginning to score victories, and today a big one came, although it is not yet permanent. It could evaporate after the 2012 election, but [...]
Continue Reading →Should public land and wildlife advocates stand in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street movement ?
The Occupy Wall Street (#OWS) movement is growing across the country and world despite the Mainstream Media’s best executed attempts to ignore, minimize, and obscure its common voice. Similarly, messaging from the powers-that-be continues to suggest that the demonstrators aren’t [...]
Continue Reading →Last year, due to the constant disruption of the Japanese whaling fleet by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the massive earthquake, and the resulting tsunami, it looked like the whalers had given up. Unfortunately they plan on returning to the Southern Ocean to hunt whales again this year and Paul Watson of the [...]
Continue Reading →There is a fight going on in Oregon between wolf advocates and ranchers. Nothing new right? Well, this one has a twist. As it stands now, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) biologists are who make the determinations as to whether a wolf is responsible for killing livestock or not. Ranchers don’t like that [...]
Continue Reading →It’s whether he turns down the Keystone XL pipeline-
Exploiting the tar sands of Alberta is so bad that famous NASA climatologist James Hansen said that if they are fully exploited for their oil deposits, “it is essentially game over” for the planet. So will he make nice with the oil companies and the Republicans [...]
Continue Reading →Environmentally destructive programs identified by activists from the left and the right-
Viewpoint: Spending Cuts Are Great When the Spending Is Stupid. By Michael Grunwald . Time Magazine
This proposal is being made by the deficit-hawk Taxpayers for Common Sense, free-market Heartland Institute, the environmental group Friends of [...]
Continue Reading →Mike Hudak interviews Don Oman, a 35-year veteran of the U.S. Forest Service, about his experience working with the agency as a part of Hudak’s series of interviews compiled for Western Turf Wars: The Politics of Public Lands Ranching
Don Oman, a 35-year veteran of the U.S. Forest Service explains how political pressure initiated [...]
Continue Reading →Montana judge’s ruling saves Lochsa River and local Idaho and Montana residents-
Imperial Oil, Canadian spawn of ExxonMobil has announced they are going to try to break down the size of their tar sands-bound megaloads so that they won’t have to use narrow, winding, scenic U.S. Highway 12 through North Central Idaho and then [...]
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