Regional Web Cams

By On November 28, 2015 · Leave a Comment · In Wildlife News

We have made links to web cams in Idaho, Western Montana and Western Wyoming-.

Alpine, ID/WY web cam. Located on the Idaho-Wyoming border looking east to the mouth of the Snake River Canyon.

Big Piney, WY air quality cam. Near Big Piney looking ENE across the desert to the Wind River Mountains.

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Bi State Sage Grouse Reinstated As Proposed Threatened By Court

By On May 19, 2022 · 4 Comments · In Wildlife News

Male sage grouse strut on a lek to lure females into breeding. Photo by Bob Wick, BLM

One often doesn’t get good news, but this week, the U.S. District Court agreed with conservation groups that the Bi-State Sage Grouse was illegally removed from its listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Efforts […]

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BLM Fails To Protect Public Patrimony Through Renewal of Grazing Privileges Without Environmental Review

By On May 17, 2022 · 10 Comments · In Wildlife News

 

BLM lands in Oregon. This kind of abuse of public patrimony is legalized vandalism. Photo George Wuerthner 

Western Watershed Project (WWP) recently completed a review of Bureau of Land Management livestock grazing permits that are supposed to be regulated under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976.

With […]

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Conservation Groups Threaten To Sue On East Paradise Grazing Decision

By On May 12, 2022 · 6 Comments · In Wildlife News

 

Emigrant Peak and Yellowstone River Valley. Several of the East Paradise Allotments include the Six Mile drainage which lies to the right of the peak in this photo. Photo Georger Wuerthner 

The Custer Gallatin National Forest (CGNF) in Montana recently completed an evaluation of six grazing allotments known as the East […]

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Gratitude for National Parks

By On May 11, 2022 · 18 Comments · In Wildlife News

Yellowstone National Park brings out the best in society. Photo George Wuerthner 

I spent the past week in Yellowstone National Park. I was grateful to the people who had the courage and foresight to establish Yellowstone in 1872.

It was with gratitude that I watched grizzly bears playing among the meadows. Gratitude […]

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Jimmy Carter Supports Protection of Izembek NWR Wilderness

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Izembek National Wildlife Refuge is a 315,000 acre protected landscape located on the Alaskan Peninsula, a chain of volcanos that eventually leds to the Aleutian Islands.

Former President Jimmy Carter has filed an AMICUS CURIAE supporting a rehearing of a District Court decision to allow a road to be constructed across […]

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Good News–Grazing Allotments to Remain Closed on Bridgeport Ranger District

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The Hoover Wilderness lies on the Bridgeport Ranger District. Photo George Wuerthner 

Photo George Wuerthner 

There is not often good news to report when it comes to livestock grazing on public lands; but I finally have something positive to convey: four vacant grazing allotments will remain closed by a […]

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Izembek Refuge and Wilderness Threatened by Road

On April 28, 2022 By

King Cove, Alaska. Photo Center for American Progress

Recently Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland visited the isolated  Aleut community of King Cove on the Alaskan Peninsula southwest of Anchorage, Alaska, to see and hear firsthand whether to approve the construction of a road across the Izembek Wilderness and National Wildlife Refuge. […]

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Montana’s Bitterroot Front Project More FS Snake Oil

On April 23, 2022 By

The Bitterroot Mountains rise up above the Bitterroot Valley in western Montana. Photo George Wuerthner 

Montana’s Bitterroot National Forest is proposing the Bitterroot Front Project (BFP), encompassing 144,000 acres. This action will impact an area more than four times the size of the 34,000-acre Rattlesnake Wilderness north of Missoula.

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Wild Rogue Wilderness Legislation Introduced

On April 15, 2022 By

The Rogue River cuts through the coastal Siskiyou Mountains. Photo George Wuerthner 

Congressman Peter DeFazio (D) from Eugene, Oregon, has introduced into the House the Wild Rogue Conservation and Recreation Enhancement Act. It is a companion bill to earlier legislation in the Senator supported by Senators Wyden and Merkley.

Rogue […]

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Escudilla Revisited, Aldo Leopold-Restoring the Grizzly to the Southwest

On April 14, 2022 By

Escudilla Mountain rises above the landscape and dominates the views in northern Arizona. Photo George Wuerthner 

“Life in Arizona was bounded underfoot by grama grass, overhead by the sky, and on the horizon by Escudilla.” So begins Aldo Leopold’s memorable essay Escudilla in Sand County Almanac, where he describes the killing of […]

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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