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Agreement ending 100 years of fighting over the uses of the Klamath River’s waters falls to a group of local malcontents-
After many years of fighting over salmon, dams, irrigation water, tribal treaty rights and ocean fishing matters came to an unpleasant head in 2001-2 when VP Dick Cheney sided with irrigators and let 70,000 [...]
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Did a Campaign of Fear and Intimidation Lead to the Gray Wolf’s Removal from the Endangered Species List?
There have been a number of analyses of the recent congressional wolf delisting in the Northern Rocky Mountains. One recent piece places much of the blame on “environmentalists.” It is [...]
Continue Reading →The word “conservation” and conservative are closely related, but there seems no room for conservationists in today’s radicalized Republican Party-
So-called “conservative” Republican activists are bent on tearing down protections for the land, water, wildlife, and human safety from toxic elements. Below the New York Times blog interviews the head of the group Republicans for [...]
Continue Reading →Notes on his speech-
I guess by now Beers needs no introduction, but the themes he expresses show the anti-wolf folks are really just part of tea party eruption with their efforts to nullify the laws of the United States. He would make the Southern Confederates of Civil War days proud, IMO.
The notes below [...]
Continue Reading →Billionaire tea party funders effort to kill CA emissions law-
We posted about this repeal effort earlier, but a good article about the Koch Brothers by a California minister.
Passing Prop. 23 would send California Reeling Backwards. Syndicated Columnist, Author, Pastor of the Resurrection Community Church Oakland, CA
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 [...]
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