July 2007
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Decisions on species to be reviewed. Methods of Interior official who resigned in question. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Here is yet another example of the Administration ignoring science to the detriment of our plants, fish and wildlife. This is not the first time Julie MacDonald, a former Interior Department official in charge reviewing ESA petitions has been…
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Yet another wildfire. This one is in Wyoming in Granite Creek, familiar to many people who love the nearby Grand Teton National Park. Updated July 25. News from Inciweb on the Granite Creek Wildfire.
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Blaze ignites criticism. Ranchers question rules of engagement in Murphy fire. Times News. By Nick Coltrain. This is very irritating. Some of the ranchers are blaming the fire on not enough grazing and BLM’s tiny attempts to rest a few areas. The years of abusive grazing are the reason for the cheatgrass spread. You don’t…
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Slickspot peppergrass and the sage grouse will be a step further toward extinction because of the huge Murphy Fire burning in SW Idaho. Huge fire ravages rare species habitat. By Cynthia Sewel. Idaho Statesman. The only place in the world that slickspot peppergrass grows is southwest Idaho. More Idaho fire news. Governor declares state of…
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So far Yellowstone has escaped this summer’s conflagrations because there has been almost no lightning, but you don’t have spend much time in the Park to see that it is every bit as dry as the summer of 1988. The first big fire is the Owl Fire in the backcountry at the NW corner of…
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Video of the recent Boise wolf hearing on the WWP blog. Look who’s going to be running the show for wolves in Idaho. Note: “management flexibility” means kill wolves without restriction. That’s the endangered species act under George Bush and Dirk Kempthorne. Note that Jim Caswell, in one of the video segments, is the new…
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Here is the story in the West Yellowstone News. By Carol Hoffman. When I was in YNP last week I pulled up some of this from along the Madison River (at “the Barns”) and also along the north part of the Grand Loop. I saw some on the edge of the road in Lamar Valley,…
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I missed this story while I was in Yellowstone last week. This incident involves the Mexican wolves. Barker’s blog. post 1355