Politicians claim states will make money managing federal lands. They conveniently avoid the “elephant in the room”
The renewed effort to move the national forests, BLM lands, and maybe national parks and monuments into state management or ownership likes to talk about economics. However, these people don’t use hard economic figures in their quips to […]
Continue Reading →Allan Savory is an advocate for the livestock management system known as, Holistic Management (HM). He is a former member of the Rhodesian Parliament (now Zimbabwe) and has made his living as a consultant with the Savory Institute. He is best known for his recent appearance as a TED speaker where he made […]
Continue Reading →Lory State Park west of Fort Collins, CO, burns-
Drought conditions across the U.S. have not changed much since last year’s near record. This is especially true in the mid-West and the Western U.S. There have already been several. One was in Idaho near Boise. It threatened homes. Now a thousand acre wildfire has burned […]
Continue Reading →Is this a portent of things to come this summer?
The wind-driven fire was on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation that follows the east boundary of Glacier National Park up the the Canadian border. There is no snow this winter in this normally wickedly cold place.
Continue Reading →In the old Soviet Union, being a scientist was a dangerous thing unless discoveries upheld the Party’s ideology-
Doubt GOP will be put scientists in a gulag. They will just be investigated and badgered out of a job.
GOP plans attacks on the EPA and climate scientists. By Neela Banerjee. Los Angeles Times
Continue Reading →The very rich funding political causes is not new, but the billionaire Koch Brothers are finally getting much deserved publicity-
That money is the “mothers milk of politics” is well known, but the identify of the mothers often isn’t. In recent years the role of really rich people funding their causes has mushroomed. Rightwingers will […]
Continue Reading →George Wuerthner challenges biomass energy.
If biomass energy production were fully implemented, it would become the single largest human impact to land in the country, requiring the near full utilization of all the U.S. forests and much of its agricultural lands for fuel production, contributing to what one TNC scientist has termed “energy sprawl.”
If not worse then just as bad.
A lot of energy has been expended to try to make natural gas look “green”. In fact many “green” groups and others are touting it as the “bridge fuel to a 21st-century energy economy” and claim that it is “cleaner” than coal. Well, it turns out that it […]
Continue Reading →Questions remain unanswered
With very few systematic surveys of pikas there is not much to compare the results of this most recent survey to. The questions that still needs to be answered are what impact is climate change having on the survival of pikas in, especially, the isolated ranges of the pika’s range? Are the […]
Continue Reading →Could be the first animal listed as threatened or endangered because of climate change
Decision expected tomorrow.
Two previous stories on the pika listing process:
Formal Protection For Pika Due To Climate Change
May 7, 2009
U.S. agrees to consider protections for pikas
February 15, 2009
