These two fires to the south of Glacier NP (Ahorn mostly in the Bob Marshall Wilderness) exploded Monday. In the Great Falls News it said flames up to 500 feet high were reported to have been seen! Highway 2, which follows the southern boundary of Glacier NP is closed.
Skyland fire rages into […]
This is about the news conference these three had yesterday. It’s on the WWP blog with a short video of an especially revealing segment.
Story in the Idaho Statesman. Idaho politicians blast federal fire management. By Heath Druzin. The dynamic trio didn’t get quite the spin they may have expected in the Statesman.
Update. […]
Continue Reading →Gila mothers not afraid of wolves. Article Launched: 07/29/2007 01:00:00 AM MDT. By Denise Blake, Jennifer Bjornstad, Juniper Bowers, Jane Bruemmer, Dulcie Clarkson, Jamie Crockett, Teleah Dabbs, Carol Fugagli, Melanie Gasparich, Samira Johnson and Jennifer Sprague. SilverCity Sun-News.
These local women are responding to a fear-mongering ag lobbying who is using the standard, the […]
Continue Reading →In contrast to the sensible position of Utah’s governor, rumor is Idaho’s three will show up tomorrow to talk about how the big rangefire was caused by not enough grazing and too many government regulations (on their buddies).
Note: as you can see from the comments below, they had their session today.
Continue Reading →Finally an article in a major newspaper that almost gets it right about rangefires — it’s the cheatgrass! . . . the cheatgrass was
The Cheatgrass Menace. By Christopher Smart. Salt Lake Tribune.
A couple things that next to be emphasized. . . . larger seed banks need to be created and soon […]
Continue Reading →Wildlife took a beating in the Murphy Complex and other rangefires. The article says it may take 30 years to restore the sage grouse habitat. Giving the increasing incidence or rangefires, however, it is hard to imagine 30 years will pass before it burns again.
Unlike forest fires the flames moved so fast that a […]
Continue Reading →Highway reopened outside Glacier park; wildfire still growing. By The Associated Press
Continue Reading →The photos (from Western Watersheds project).
Continue Reading →Scientists are increasingly alarmed that global warming has removed any control that bitterly cold winters once had over the mountain pine beetle, which co-evolved with pine trees over millennia in the West.
This is umpteen article I’ve posted on the mountain pine beetle. I think the beetle, drought, heat and fire are doing just what […]
Continue Reading →Earlier I reported that Ken Salazar, Democratic Senator from Colorado, had put a hold on the nomination of Idahoan Jim Caswell to be the new national director of the Bureau of Land Management.
Today reading Randy Stapilus’ Blog (Ridenbaugh Press), I learned the Oregon’s Democratic Senator Ron Wyden has a hold on Lyle Laverty, whom […]
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