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I’ve been studying fire ecology for decades, an interest which led to the publication in 2006 of my book WIldfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy. My interest in wildfire did not end with the book and I have continued to read and digest the fire-related literature, attend conferences, and most importantly visit and observe [...]
Continue Reading →Lawsuit aims to take back majority of marsh land used to create the Refuge-
A lawsuit by landowners who helped create the Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge in 1965, now threatens is dismemberment.
One of the best known features of the obscure country between the eastern edge of the Snake River Plain and the Wyoming [...]
Continue Reading →Ten photos of jaguar near at site of 6,990-acre Rosemont mine project area-
Arizona is pockmarked with abandoned copper pit after pit and associated toxic tailings. There are also some active pits and old ones starting back up. Finally there are plans for another new giant pit on the north end of the Santa Rita Mountains [...]
Continue Reading →Reliable spring time snow appears to be vital for wolverine kits to survive-
Wolverines are legendary for traveling huge distances and eating just about anything. However, a study in the recent Journal of Mammology shows that this is hardly true when it comes to baby wolverine and their mothers.
Wolverine females den in the snow [...]
Continue Reading →Emma Marris, the author of Rambunctious Garden (RG), loves the nature hiding in back street alleys and along the highway median strip. Marris believes it’s time to abandon (or de-emphasize) what she sees as outdated and naïve conservation strategies such as creation of national parks and wilderness reserves. She feels the biggest obstacles to a [...]
Continue Reading →A disgrace for the Salmon Challis National Forest
Basin Creek is a headwater tributary of the Little Lost River drainage in Idaho. It was home to bull trout and had a series of wet meadows which are in the process of eroding away and becoming biological wastelands.
Western Watersheds Project staff and supporters visited this [...]
Continue Reading →Extractive Industry Determines the Fate of Sage Grouse in Idaho.
On Monday, March 12, 2011, the Idaho Governor Butch Otter’s Sage Grouse Task Force had its first formal meeting. Originally the meeting was to be organized by the Idaho Governor’s Office of Species Conservation (OSC) but something happened and rather than have OSC organize the [...]
Continue Reading →Tiny herd spends most of its time in British Columbia-
The woodland caribou have been on the endangered species list for a long time, several million dollars have been spent on their conservation. That might sound like a lot, but it is a total over many years. They depend on old growth rain forest, living [...]
Continue Reading →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 →The effort to list the Greater Sage-grouse via the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has been an uphill battle. However, even as the end-game has yet to be realized, the effort itself has been remarkably successful at prompting bureaucratic backflips and a whole lot of paper-shuffling to accommodate consideration of the species. Unfortunately, many of the existing and developing [...]
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