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wildlife refuges

  • Wildlife refuges can provide shovel-ready green jobs

    Ralph Maughan

    20,000 jobs in 90 days for a billion dollars doing what has needed to be done for decades- A proposal from Defenders of Wildlife. * $443 million for removing non-native, invasive species and restoring native habitat: 5,644 jobs * $243 million for dramatically improving the energy efficiency of existing facilities: 5,103 jobs * $201 million…

  • Report touts wildlife refuges

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is another story touting the economic benefits of nearby public lands. Report touts wildlife refuges. By Brodie Farquhar. Casper Star Tribune. These stories continually telling of the benefits of the public lands have in recent years help stave off the privatizers, but beware because their methods are getting more and more sneaky.

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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.”

Raveena Tandon

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