From the daily archives: Saturday, July 7, 2007

Clean air gone for the summer in Idaho?

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With the onset of the thunderstorm season in parched southern Idaho, the clean air is probably gone for the summer. I took the photo below June 9this year. It is of the Lost River Range from Copper Basin.

It is very hazy today in Pocatello, Idaho today due to all the wildfires lightning ignited yesterday. […]

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Center for Biological Diversity echoes Richardson's outrage over killing rare Mexican wolf

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Center for Biological Diversity Statement on Governor Richardson’s Call to Suspend Federal Wolf Killing Program. Published on Yuba.net

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Warm water due to hot weather, not hot springs, killing Yellowstone Park trout

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With the record high temperatures in the Rocky Mountain and Intermountain West, the temperatures of trout streams are soaring above, sometimes far above, that which kills trout.

It is plainly evident in Yellowstone Park. Heat kills fish in Yellowstone. Jackson Hole News and Guide. Yellowstone is more vulnerable than many mountain stream areas because […]

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Rocky Barker's blog: Summer means U.S. reporters start thinking about Idaho

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It is true that there seems to be more national news about obscure Idaho in the summer.

Barker’s blog. Idaho Statesman

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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