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 […]
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