The Real ID Act of 2005 set aside all laws that might delay construction of the border wall along Mexico-
The hysteria about illegal immigration might have subsided a bit because an effective policy has finally been devised that works better than the great border wall in keeping illegal, undocumented, or whatever you call them out. It [...]
Continue Reading →In May of this year, the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed creating a Distinct Population Segment (or “DPS”) of wolves in the Great Lakes Region, and removing wolves in this DPS from federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections (76 Fed. Reg 26086). The “delisting” of wolves in the Great Lakes was recently discussed [...]
Continue Reading →Wolf delisting rider and most of the highly unpopular giveaways to polluters and abusers of our public lands are defeated-
The conference report on the 2012 appropriations bill for most non-defense expenditures has been finalized. Instead of merely appropriating more or less money for agencies many ideologically loaded amendments or riders were added, mostly by [...]
Continue Reading →Famed physicist advocates new populations of humans be established to avoid our extinction-
What? At 7-billion “strong” we need to establish new populations? Yes! Stephen Hawking, the great astrophysicist, recently wrote that humans need to spread into outer space or else. (ABC News).
While he [...]
Continue Reading →U.S./B.C. herd of 50 to finally get critical habitat-
Woodland caribou, far more rare than the well known barren ground caribou, have kept a tiny toehold in the United States in the Panhandle of Idaho. Even that sometimes slips and the herd spends its time just to the north in British Columbia. About 600 square [...]
Continue Reading →The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturns the delisting of Grizzly Bears
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld in part, and overturned in part, a Montana federal district court’s decision maintaining Endangered Species Act protections for Grizzly Bears.
Court says Yellowstone grizzlies still threatened - AP
The ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of [...]
Continue Reading →In an implicit acknowledgement that public lands ranching is often incompatible with native species viability on public lands, Margaret Soulen Hinson provides more hyperbolic rhetoric at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands:
Public Lands Council Press Release:
RANCHERS WARN U.S. FOREST POLICIES THREATEN LIVESTOCK GRAZING
Nov. [...]
Once thought extinct, reintroduction to Utah just one of a growing number-
The black-footed ferret, closely related to the weasel, but a predatory specialist that eats prairie dogs almost exclusively (about 92% of their diet), was thought to be extinct back in the 1970s. Amazingly a pet dog discovered a colony near Meeteetse, Wyoming in [...]
Continue Reading →Couple near Joseph, Oregon have plans for a bed and breakfast rejected because they associate with enviros and might enjoy wolves-
A couple owning 16 acres of land deemed unsuitable for agriculture have lost their first round in an attempt to build a tiny bed and breakfast on their land because local folks believe they [...]
Continue Reading →9th Circuit Filings – Constitutional Challenge to Wolf Delisting Rider
^Update 10/18/11 – Posted: Alliance for the Wild Rockies et al’s Emergency Motion for Injunction Pending Appeal, Motion for Summary Judgement Response Briefs (Appellees US Fish and Wildlife Service; Intervenors RMEF, NRA, & Montana/Idaho Farm Bureaus; Montana Amicus Brief)
**Update 8/24/11 – Posted: Alliance for [...]
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