Reader generated wildlife news. Starting on Dec. 29, 2019

By On December 29, 2019 · 198 Comments · In Wildlife News

Reader generated wildlife news beginning on Dec. 29, 2019

It is time to create a new page of “Reader Generated Wildlife News.” Do not post copyrighted material.

Here is the link to the “old” wildlife news page that began on July 25, 2019 From there you can access links to the many older pages […]

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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 […]

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Removing 21-inch Protection For Large Trees Isn’t Restoration

By On June 1, 2020 · Leave a Comment · In Forest Service, Logging, Oregon, Public Lands

 

Old-growth fir trees in the Lookout Mountain Proposed Wilderness, Ochoco National Forest, Photo by George Wuerthner

The Forest Service is proposing to remove the prohibition against logging trees larger than 21 inches that grow in national forests on the eastside of the Cascades in Oregon. The probation […]

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BLM Fuels Reduction and Restoration: License to Destroy Sagebrush Ecosystems

By On May 27, 2020 · 2 Comments · In B.L.M., California, Cattle, Domestic Sheep, Grazing and Livestock, Idaho, Invasive Species, Nevada, Oregon, Public Land Management, Public Lands, Utah

Juniper removal below Abert Rim, Oregon Photo by George Wuerthner

 

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is now taking comments on a massive vegetation project for the Great Basin and adjacent areas of the Colorado Plateau. The PEIS for Fuels Reduction and Rangeland Restoration in the Great Basin (the Fuels Reduction and […]

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Greatest Good Is To Preserve Forest Carbon

By On May 23, 2020 · 5 Comments · In Wildlife News

An ecologically ravaged forest ecosystem on the Deschutes National Forest, Oregon. Thinning the forest to allegedly preclude wildfires releases a tremendous amount of stored carbon. Photo by George Wuerthner

Gifford Pinchot, first chief of the U.S. Forest Service said: “Conservation is the foresighted utilization, preservation and/or renewal of forests, waters, […]

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Should federal public lands be prioritized for renewable energy development?

On May 22, 2020 By

The Wilderness Society just teamed up with Yale University to release a report promoting renewable energy development on public lands, and like the recent Michael Moore documentary Planet of the Humans, it’s stirring up controversy. The report suggests we should ramp up utility-scale renewable production on federal public lands, with a particular focus […]

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Lionhead Proposed Wilderness

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One of the most outstanding wildlands on the Custer Gallatin National Forest is the 43,759-acre proposed Lionhead Wilderness. The Lionhead lies along the Continental Divide and rises up above  Hebgen Lake near West Yellowstone. The Madison River and Quake Lake on the north, while Targhee Pass on the south and Raynold […]

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Medicine Bow NF Massive Logging Unacceptable

On May 19, 2020 By

The Medicine Bow National Forest is proposing to implement the  Landscape Vegetation Analysis (LaVA) Project, one of the most massive logging operations in the lower 48 states.  As much as 320,000 acres (an area bigger than Grand Teton National Park) will be “treated” by logging and other “vegetation” manipulations. http://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=51255

In the 1970s, the Targhee […]

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WildEarth Guardians Scores Big Protections for Wildlife in Montana

On May 18, 2020 By

Agreement with USDA’s Wildlife Services curbs killing of grizzles, wolves, other native wildlife

Sarah McMillan, WildEarth Guardians, (406) 549-3895, SMcMillan@wildearthguardians.org

Missoula, Montana—In a major win for Montana’s wildlife, WildEarth Guardians settled its lawsuit against USDA’s Wildlife Services (“Wildlife Services”) today, after the federal program agreed to severely curtail its […]

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Bozeman Watershed Project Spills Bad Blood

On May 15, 2020 By

Hyalite Reservoir in Bozeman watershed. Photo by George Wuerthner

 

Safeway in ruin at Paradise California despite being surrounded by parking lot–lack of fuel didn’t save the building Photo by George Wuerthner

 

Back in the Middle Ages, it was a common practice for “doctors” to bleed […]

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Emotion instead of reason drives Utah Legislature

On May 6, 2020 By

When it comes to wild carnivores these lawmakers look to their gut instead of their brain-

A couple months ago I went to the Utah Capitol to oppose House Bill 228 (the brainchild of state Rep. Casey Snyder), otherwise known as the Livestock Predators […]

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Landscape Amnesia And The Deschutes River

On May 2, 2020 By

Endangered Oregon spotted frog habitat dried up by changes in river flow to accommodate the irrigation district. Photo George Wuerthner

 

I took a run along the Deschutes River in Bend’s Riverbend Park the other day. The one thing I noticed is that the river is nearly opaque. You can see down maybe […]

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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