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 […]
This is from the Carnivore Conservation blog. Panther-vehicle fatalities.
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Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →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.
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →Barkers blog in the Idaho Statesman. June 26
Continue Reading →This is a good article because for once it makes clear the wolves were interested in the dog, not the person.
I’m amazed that a small dog could chase a wolf and survive.
Story by Jason Kaufman in the Idaho Mountain Express.
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Continue Reading →Story. Big Hole drops. By Nick Gevock of The Montana Standard.
A small snowpack last winter plus ranchers drawing out water to grow hay is drying up the river, the home of the river-dwelling grayling in the lower U.S.
Recently the Bush Administration refused to put the Big Hole River grayling on the endangered […]
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