June 1, 2007

  • Bush's Climate-Change Feint

    Ralph Maughan

    You’ve probably all heard that the President suddenly is interested in climate change and he even wants to have an international conference to set caps on emissions to establish “aspirational goals” on the emission of greenhouse gases. Every week Washington Post’s Dam Froomkin writes a long and detailed column about the White House — White…

  • Alan Gregory seriously injured in bicycle mishap

    Ralph Maughan

    We have all enjoyed Alan Gregory’s conservation news, and Alan has been a regular poster to this blog. I’m very sad to report “Alan was struck while cycling by an elderly driver turning left who failed to look in his oncoming direction on 4/29. He was within several hundred yards of being back home. He…

  • NASA Administrator Questions Need to Fight Global Warming

    Ralph Maughan

    NASA Administrator Questions Need to Fight Global Warming. By Marc Kaufman. Washington Post Staff Writer. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin says that although global warming is changing Earth’s climate, he’s not convinced that is “a problem we must wrestle with.” The NASA chief — whose agency has come under fire in Congress for cutting several programs…

  • Copper Basin: A secluded bastion of the Old West

    Ralph Maughan

    Jason Kauffman wrote a fine story on Copper Basin, a beautiful mountain valley hemmed in between the Pioneer and White Knob Mountains about 20 miles east of Hailey, Idaho. Copper Basin could be Idaho’s Lamar Valley with similar wildlife, and even better scenery, but it has a big problem . . . cows, lots 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

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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