Month: June 2007
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Grouse summit: Status quo won’t do
The scientists say: “Speaker after speaker emphasized that the status quo approach was not tenable — conserving sage grouse and sage grouse habitat while also developing the rich gas, oil and coal-bed methane fields of Wyoming.” Industry turns it into: “Ranchers, oil and gas men, biologists, conservationists and state and federal officials are meeting to…
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Bloodbath in Florida: Panther-vehicle fatalities hit record high
This is from the Carnivore Conservation blog. Panther-vehicle fatalities. post 1267
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Notice about this blog during the rest of the summer
From now on, I will be gone an increasing amount of time. During that period, this blog might have a guest editor such as “BE,” who will actively run it and post material. It will also be unedited from time to time. If the blog is not being actively edited, the default setting is that…
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Mountain Express picks up story on the illegal killing of Basin Butte wolf B313F
I told the story back on June 20. Now the Idaho Mountain Express has done a report on it. Stanley wolf killed illegally. Lost River Valley resident charged with shooting. By Jason Kauffman. Idaho Mountain Express.
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Cheney: Amending environmental laws to help business. Cheney left no tracks. . .
Vice President Cheney has been in the news a lot lately. One major reason is that he thinks he discovered something about his office that others have failed to see in over 200 years — it is not really part of the executive branch of government. As a result, laws applying to the executive branch…
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Corrupt former number 2 in Interior will do time.
Despite pleas from his buddies, such as Idaho’s governor Butch Otter, J. Steven Griles, the former second-ranking official in the U.S. Dept. of Department has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for lying to a Senate committee about his relationship with former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who himself is now in prison. Abramoff snitched on…
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Tahoe flames resume march. Fireline is breached.
Jumping a containment line, the fire forces another evacuation. By Tim Reiterman and Lee Romney, Times Staff Writers. This fire will, as it should, increase the public perception of the problem of people building in areas where fires are expected and normally burn without great loss of property. Update: Indeed the debate has already begun.…
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Rocky Barker says salmon have swimmed back into the consciousness of Idahoans
Barkers blog in the Idaho Statesman. June 26