Should federal public lands be prioritized for renewable energy development?

On May 22, 2020 By

The Wilderness Society just teamed up with Yale University to release a report promoting renewable energy development on public lands, and like the recent Michael Moore documentary Planet of the Humans, it’s stirring up controversy. The report suggests we should ramp up utility-scale renewable production on federal public lands, with a particular focus […]

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Lionhead Proposed Wilderness

On May 20, 2020 By

 

 

 

 

One of the most outstanding wildlands on the Custer Gallatin National Forest is the 43,759-acre proposed Lionhead Wilderness. The Lionhead lies along the Continental Divide and rises up above  Hebgen Lake near West Yellowstone. The Madison River and Quake Lake on the north, while Targhee Pass on the south and Raynold […]

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Medicine Bow NF Massive Logging Unacceptable

On May 19, 2020 By

The Medicine Bow National Forest is proposing to implement the  Landscape Vegetation Analysis (LaVA) Project, one of the most massive logging operations in the lower 48 states.  As much as 320,000 acres (an area bigger than Grand Teton National Park) will be “treated” by logging and other “vegetation” manipulations. http://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=51255

In the 1970s, the Targhee […]

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WildEarth Guardians Scores Big Protections for Wildlife in Montana

On May 18, 2020 By

Agreement with USDA’s Wildlife Services curbs killing of grizzles, wolves, other native wildlife

Sarah McMillan, WildEarth Guardians, (406) 549-3895, SMcMillan@wildearthguardians.org

Missoula, Montana—In a major win for Montana’s wildlife, WildEarth Guardians settled its lawsuit against USDA’s Wildlife Services (“Wildlife Services”) today, after the federal program agreed to severely curtail its […]

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Bozeman Watershed Project Spills Bad Blood

On May 15, 2020 By

Hyalite Reservoir in Bozeman watershed. Photo by George Wuerthner

 

Safeway in ruin at Paradise California despite being surrounded by parking lot–lack of fuel didn’t save the building Photo by George Wuerthner

 

Back in the Middle Ages, it was a common practice for “doctors” to bleed […]

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Emotion instead of reason drives Utah Legislature

On May 6, 2020 By

When it comes to wild carnivores these lawmakers look to their gut instead of their brain-

A couple months ago I went to the Utah Capitol to oppose House Bill 228 (the brainchild of state Rep. Casey Snyder), otherwise known as the Livestock Predators […]

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Landscape Amnesia And The Deschutes River

On May 2, 2020 By

Endangered Oregon spotted frog habitat dried up by changes in river flow to accommodate the irrigation district. Photo George Wuerthner

 

I took a run along the Deschutes River in Bend’s Riverbend Park the other day. The one thing I noticed is that the river is nearly opaque. You can see down maybe […]

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Ochoco NF Chainsaw Medicine

On May 1, 2020 By

Forest on the Ochoco National Forest. Photo by George Wuerthner

 

Hurray for Central Oregon Land Watch and Oregon Wild for suing the Ochoco National Forest over its proposed Black Mountain Vegetation Management Project near Big Prairie.

As is typical of the Forest Service today, they use euphemisms to conceal what they […]

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New National Parks article

On April 23, 2020 By

https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/national-parks-were-one-of-americas-greatest-ideas.-lets-expand-on-that/

 

National Parks Were One of America’s Greatest Ideas. Let’s Expand on That. To fully protect the values for which they were established, we need to add new national parks and expand many existing ones.

GEORGE WUERTHNER AND MICHAEL KELLETT

April 23, 2020   

One of United States’ greatest contributions to the global marketplace […]

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The public shows ranchers the door at Point Reyes National Seashore

On April 23, 2020 By

The National Park Service recently released the public comments on how Point Reyes National Seashore should be managed and they show that the vast majority of the public wants beef and dairy operations booted off Park Service lands. Contrary to prevailing assumptions that local food culture overrides conservation concerns in the local area, some […]

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey