Privatization
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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 of public land…
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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…
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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…
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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 thing…
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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
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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 / By Joshua…
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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 filed a legal challenge today against the…
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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. Return of the Sagebrush…