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  • Savage Rapids Dam gone. Oregon's Rogue River closer to freedom

    Ralph Maughan

    All sides win as 90-year-old salmon killer is demolished- When Gold Ray Dam (further upstream) is taken out next year, over 150 miles of the magnificent Rogue River of SW Oregon will have been returned to freedom. Story in the LA Times. Oregon dam’s demise lets the Rogue River run. By Kim Murphy.

  • Throng hails Wyoming's first wild and scenic rivers law

    Ralph Maughan

    This was part of the omnibus public lands bill that passed earlier this year- Throng hails wild river law. Jackson Hole Daily. By Angus M. Thuermer Jr., Jackson Hole, Wyo.

  • Owyhees bill hits a new snag

    Ralph Maughan

    Owyhees bill hits a new snag. By Rocky Barker. Idaho Statesman. Efforts to move the headwaters of the Snake River into the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System could derail Idaho Senator Mike Crapo’s Owyhees bill. Once again the person troubling Crapo is Idaho’s other “more famous” senator, Larry Craig. Craig who voted against protecting…

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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

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

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