From the daily archives: Monday, May 14, 2007

Glaciers are gone; so why not rename Montana's Glacier National Park?

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Group wants to rename Glacier. By Bill Schneider. New West.

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230 plus US scientists sign letter opposing wolf delisting in Northern Rockies

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Scientists oppose delisting. By Cory Hatch. Jackson Hole News and Guide.

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Cattle vs. wildlife at Whisky Dick Wildlife Area

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The news about Gov. Gregoire’s deal with the cattle association to put cattle as a “wildife habitat improvement” technique into the state wildlife areas (purchased with public money) for free grazing is now reached westward across the Cascades.

Here is a story by Joel Connelly, the well-known columnist at the Seattle Post Intelligencer. “Cattle […]

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Sonoran pronghorn makes a comeback.

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Their numbers have grown from just 21 to over 100.

Using the Kempthorne/Otter logic, I guess we should butcher 4/5 of them now.

Story. Associated Press. (with the original silly headline). Deer-Like Animal Rebounds in Arizona. By Arthur R. Rotstein.

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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