This is on Idaho’s deep, deep drought from the Idaho Mountain Express. By Jason Kaufmann.
The last week, the flow of monsoonal moisture coming up from the south (typical of August) has begun with thunderstorms, some quite wet. These have dampened some of the fires, but have little effect on the dry forests. These […]
Continue Reading →This video shows some of the rangefire damage, and they talk about damage to sage grouse leks and big game habitat. The best is at the end when they indirectly counter Larry Craig and the ranchers with quotes such as “Fuel moisture was at an all-time low…. fire burned right through grazed areas …”
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Continue Reading →“U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that he’ll do everything I can to stop construction of three major coal-fired power plants in his home state of Nevada and will push for more alternative energy development.”
Reid had seemed to be neutral to leaning toward the coal plants. They are being proposed not because […]
Continue Reading →This is from the Western Watersheds Project blog.
I’m not a great enthusiast for feral horses, although they are lovely to watch . . . prettier than cows. The horses can lead to overgrazing, but they are usually not the real culprit because the BLM does keep their numbers down, a minor factor compared to […]
Continue Reading →Although the nomination of Jim Caswell, aide to former Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne has now passed the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Colorado’s U.S. Senator Ken Salazar (Democrat) says he will keep “a hold” on the nomination and not let it come to a vote before the full Senate.
The hold is there because […]
Continue Reading →The one big fire in Yellowstone keeps growing, and now at over 2000 acres has burned out the middle of Specimen Creek, a major drainage in the NW Corner of the Park.
My earlier stories on the Owl Fire.
Update, from Inciweb on Saturday, July 28. Today 12 handcrews were assigned to the fire […]
Continue Reading →Rocky Barker’s blog: Nampa man blows up dam in Oregon to aid salmon. Idaho Statesman.
Although I don’t write prolifically about salmon and steelhead (prized NW anadromous fish), their management and fate is one of the longest and divisive wildlife controversies in Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
One of the major points of contention is […]
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