State parks explore deal with The North Face, other companies, to ease budget crunch
You’ve probably seen it at a public school near you; Coca Cola score boards, exclusive to Pepsi product vending machines in the hallways between class. Now, Idaho managers are seeking to find ways to commercialize state parks in an effort to raise [...]
Continue Reading →Big Energy companies with criminal records given billions in stimulus funds to wreak havoc on our public lands and wildlife.
The Center for Public Integrity has issued a stinging report on how the Obama Administration has bypassed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) when issuing permits for energy and other projects which involve federal lands [...]
Continue Reading →Michael J. Connor, Ph.D.
California Director
Western Watersheds Project
Secretary of the Interior Salazar is about to initial a series of major giveaways of public lands in California to industrial-scale solar power producers. These “fast-tracked” power plant projects have had truncated environmental reviews in the current administration’s rush to place huge chunks [...]
Continue Reading →Ranch near Green Ranch which holds quarantined Yellowstone bison.
A yearling bison on Ted Turner’s Flying D Ranch has been found to have died from anthrax. The bison is not one of the quarantined Yellowstone bison transferred to Turner but this is nearby Turner’s Green Ranch where the quarantined bison are being held. This concern [...]
Continue Reading →Famed former Baca Ranch could emerge as national park after failed “free market” experiment-
I have never been to this famous New Mexico supervolcano area with its scenic, but degraded grasslands and forests. The area is notable for its elk, but the herd is much smaller than it could be due to the competition with [...]
Continue Reading →Nevada’s energy chief wants to take Federal Lands and hand them over to energy companies.
Jim Groth, an appointee of Governor Jim Gibbons, published a declaration which calls for turning the State of Nevada into an energy colony and he doesn’t think it should be subject to National Environmental Policy Act requirements.
“The greatest [...]
Continue Reading →1,142 acres of BLM Land in southeast Idaho could be sold to Simplot for phosphate mining
This would be a precedent setting decision that would eliminate access to this land and limit input into how it is managed.
Agency mulls selling public land for mine
TODD DVORAK – Associated Press
How Ted Turner Scored Yellowstone’s Bison Herd
A good overview of the buffalo issue and how they continue to be persecuted by Montana’s livestock industry and how the buffalo from the quarantine feasibility study ended up going to Ted Turner.
The Privatization of Wildlife: How Ted Turner Scored Yellowstone’s Bison Herd
AlterNet / [...]
Lawsuit Seeks to Secure Public Access to Bison and Prevent Privatization of Calves
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 23, 2010
Contacts:
Stephany Seay, Buffalo Field Campaign 406-646-0070, bfc-media@wildrockies.org
Summer Nelson, Western Watersheds Project, 406-830-3099, summer@westernwatersheds.org
Glenn Hockett, Gallatin Wildlife Association, 406-586-1729, glhockett@bresnan.net
GALLATIN COUNTY, MONTANA: Four conservation organizations [...]
Continue Reading →Fake outrage over memo on national monuments being used to gin up grab of our public lands-
I’ve been meaning to write something about this because it is as plain as day that they are up to this. However, RLMiller did it first on the Daily Kos, so here it is.
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