From the daily archives: Monday, June 18, 2007

Colorado’s Rep. Udall to sponsor amendment to kill abusive use of RS 2477 law.

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RS 2477 is remnant of the mining law of 1866, which was repealed in 1976 when the Federal Land Policy and Management Act was passed. The intent of rs2477 was to grant access to miners on the public domain way back when, and its purpose had long expired.

Nevertheless, some crafty lawyers with help from […]

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Utah black bear rips open tent, carries off boy in sleeping bag, kills.

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About 11 PM last night, a rouge black bear tore open a tent an 11-year old boy was sleeping in. A half hour later searchers found his remains 400 yards away. Dogs are tracked down the large black bear and it was shot.

The killing took place in American Fork Canyon in the Wasatch Mountains […]

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Elusive and adaptable, coyotes thrive in Pa.

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It is estimated that 20,000 coyotes live in Pennsylvania today. A hundred years ago there were none.

Story in the Pocano Record.

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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