If you listened to President Obama’s State of the Union Address you may have noticed that the President had some things to say about how this administration values public land:
[...] I’m directing my administration to allow the development of clean energy on enough public lands to power 3 million homes.
For groups working to [...]
Continue Reading →In 1988, beer maker conglomerate Anheuser-Busch purchased the Cabin Bar Ranch in California’s Sierra Nevada to obtain water rights that would insure a backup water supply for the company’s Van Nuys brewery. Associated with the ranch were public lands permits to graze cattle within the Golden Trout Wilderness, home to California’s state [...]
Continue Reading →H.R.1581
Bruce Babbit, former Secretary of the Interior in the Clinton Administration, claims that the wolf delisting rider was the wake-up call that brought him back into the foray on public land and wildlife issues. Now he’s taking aim at a piece of legislation that would capitalize on Congress’s slow action and open up greater [...]
Continue Reading →Obama and Salazar take back the crumbs they kicked Wilderness advocates
‘Wild lands’ order revoked - BLM can no longer grant wilderness-like protection – Idaho Mountain Express
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar wrote a memo to bureau Director Bob Abbey on Wednesday confirming that the BLM is not authorized to designate any of its [...]
Continue Reading →Like an oak. The stubborn Brandborgs and the fight for wilderness
by Jessica Mayer. The Missoula Independent.
I have heard tales of Stewart Brandborg since I was a young man. I’ve never met him. He still lives in the Bitterroot Valley and fights on. It isn’t just [...]
Continue Reading →The new “Black Creek Blowout” could be the biggest rapid on the river-
This is big news for all who float or boat the main fork of the Salmon River below the Corn Creek put-in. I’d like to know more about what caused this blowout on April 1.
So much for Harry Reid’s promise that the budget bill wouldn’t be used to carry anti-environment riders
Around Christmas, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that the administration would be pursuing a BLM Wild Lands initiative, vague direction to BLM to inventory lands which exhibit wilderness characteristics for future Congressional Wilderness designation consideration.
It was a [...]
Continue Reading →Their origin is not known-
The Eagle Cap Wilderness in the Wallowa Mountains is large and rugged. It’s in extreme NE Oregon near Washington and Idaho. This herd of 25 bison is of unknown origin. What a happy discovery!
The Eagle Cap Wilderness, the nearby Wenaha-Tucannon [...]
Continue Reading →Idaho’s fact free governor testifies about Idaho Wilderness-
Clement “Butch” Otter has always made his way catering to most backward power groups in his unequal, economically poor, but wilderness rich state. The poorly paid teachers, educationally deprived students, overflowing prisons, and dispirited population are fine by him, but he has never liked wild backcountry, and [...]
Continue Reading →Motorbikes, ATV interests rebuffed for large roadless area between Glacier N.P. and Bob Marshall Wildlerness-
Judge upholds ban on motorized travel in Badger-Two Med. By Karl Puckett. Great Falls Tribune Staff Writer.
I’ve only been there twice, and just into it a little way. My impression [...]
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