Western Watersheds Project wins initial court victory
Western Watersheds Project (WWP) has won a federal court order overturning the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Resource Management Plans (RMPs) for the Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve in Idaho and the Pinedale Field Office in Wyoming. These two plans affect management on over 2.5 [...]
Continue Reading →Lummis shows bad faith the day before meeting with Secretary Salazar and Governor Mead-
Salazar should have cancelled the meeting in response to Lummis’ actions. Democrats need to to understand they are dealing with opponents with ethics and values worse than Somali pirates.
Story: Salazar [...]
Continue Reading →Just a generation ago . . . cleanest air the West set against the highest mountains in Wyoming-
It was wonderful to backpack, fish, and climb in the Wind River Mountains in the day when they did not overlook a miasma of gas field air pollution.
Wyoming folks love the Wyoming Range and fear fracking-
An unprecedented number of comments came in on the Plains Exploration & Production Co.’s (PXP) plan for up to 136 gas wells south of Bondurant near Noble Basin. Most of the Wyoming and adjacent Salt River Range has been withdrawn from oil and gas leasing/drilling by [...]
Continue Reading →Heavy snowfall sends elk to refuge. By Cory Hatch. Jackson Hole Daily.
It is shaping up to be a snowy winter in southern Idaho and Western Wyoming.
Continue Reading →Park County bison tests positive for brucellosis
By BOB MOEN – Associated Press.
Herd tests positive for brucellosis
By BRENNA BRAATEN – Cody Enterprise.
Western Democrats want to gut the Endangered Species Act
Jon Tester, the Democratic Senator for Montana, is facing a tough re-election battle in 2012 which may hinge on the wolf issue. He is desperate to find a solution which allows the State of Montana to manage wolves and wants to get something passed in the [...]
Continue Reading →Salazar can’t just change the rules without an open, public process under NEPA.
The governors of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana are meeting with Ken Salazar in Denver on Monday to talk about wolves. It will be interesting to see what comes of this. Really, there are very few options for the Department of Interior short [...]
Continue Reading →U.S. District Judge Alan Johnson Rules that USFWS was not justified in rejecting Wyoming’s woefully inadequate wolf management plan.
Recall that Judge Molloy ruled in 2008 that the USFWS arbitrarily accepted Wyoming’s wolf management plan without justification after initially rejecting it. Specifically Molloy said that the USFWS “acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it approved [...]
Continue Reading →. . . and another transplant to this obscure mountain range planned-
We’ve been following this for about a year now, and it’s good to hear good news on bighorn sheep because so much has been bad.
Article on the transplants. By Jeff Gearino. Casper Star-Tribune in the [...]
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