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  • Oil Companies Get OK To Annoy Bears

    Brian Ertz

    As suggested in an earlier post (or two), the Bush Administration’s Fish & Wildlife Service is doing its best to take its decision to list polar bears and extend federal protections to oil companies with it : Oil Companies Get OK To Annoy Bears – AP

  • Groups file suit to overturn use of "4(d) rule" on Polar Bear listing

    Brian Ertz

    Earlier we noted Secretary of Interior, Dirk Kempthorne’s decision to list the Polar Bear as a threatened species.  Kempthorne was spreading around the idea that the ESA was not intended to regulate greenhouse gases, the principle threat affecting polar bear habitat. Now, we learn of the “4(d) rule”, a waiver of protections normally afforded species…

  • Alaskan gov't wants to find scientists who will study polar bears to prove they're not threatened by global warming

    Ralph Maughan

    Alaskan gov’t wants to find scientists who will study polar bears to prove they’re not threatened by global warming. UPI Would these scientists be paid no compensation if they didn’t find what the Republican legislators want? That is not how real science is conducted — EVER.

  • Judge Orders Bush Administration to Decide Polar Bears' Status by May 15

    Ralph Maughan

    Judge Orders Bush Administration to Decide Polar Bears’ Status by May 15. VOA. The Bush Administration was pressured into considering the polar bear for endangered species status, and their strategy has been to prolong the consideration while the bears decline, oil leases are let, and their own time in office runs out. A federal judge…

  • Three polar bears wander into town hundreds of miles south of their normal range

    Ralph Maughan

    Grizzly bears are showing up in the high arctic and polar bears wandering south of the Arctic Circle. These 3 starving polar bears were shot when they discovered food in a village far inland. Lost polar bears hit NWT town. Animals’ arrival hundreds of kilometres south of habitat seen as sign of climate change. By…

  • Oil politics alleged in polar bear decision

    Ralph Maughan

    Oil politics alleged in polar bear decision. San Francisco Chronicle. This story is up on many on-line places today.

  • Grizzly found in polar bear country

    Ralph Maughan

    A grizzly bear has been found in what is polar bear country, and he is thriving. Folks may recall that about a year ago a hunter shot a grizzly/polar bear hybrid. This may be yet another effect of the rapid warming at the poles. Story in the Edmonton Journal. Ed Struzik. Grizzly found in polar…

  • Public Lands Tag Sale

    Ralph Maughan

    Diary of a Mad Voter: Joan McCarter. Public Lands Tag Sale. By Joan McCarter. New West. While media talks about the horse race for President, it’s going to be a year of plunder on the public lands, and most it will not be covered. McCarter writes about what is going on, starting with the Bush…

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