Map. Oh my !!
The Zena-Loon is the bulk of the “East Fork Fire Complex” which is now 217, 263 acres. Here is a color coded fire progression map. They seem to update it daily.
Another map I would like to see someone produce is how much of the country surrounding this fire […]
Continue Reading →Idaho has no coal-fired power plants, notorious spewers of the toxic element mercury (which is a natural “contaminant” of coal). The emissions cap and trade program is a pollution control method designed for states with sources of atmospheric mercury (mostly coal plants). If Idaho were to opt into the program, that is basically saying “build […]
Continue Reading →Enviros: northern Arizona could be home to jaguars. By Cyndy Cole. Arizona Sun Staff Reporter.
This certainly makes sense from the perspective of climate change, as the topics extend further and further north.
Continue Reading →Craig has been just about enemy number one of preventing extinction of salmon runs in Idaho. Barker doesn’t say “enemy of salmon.” He takes the lighter, “leading defender of the BPA” (Bonneville Power Administration, which “wheels” the electricity from many of the salmon-killing dams on the Columbia River and the Snake River (both in the […]
Continue Reading →No doubt similiar situations are taking place all over the burning parts of Idaho (the Castle Rock fire is not nearly as large as the East Zone fire complex, east of McCall, for example).
No doubt many wolf packs have moved too, out of the necessity of avoiding the flames and to follow the elk […]
Continue Reading →Castle Rock Fire battle ends where it began. Majority of remaining fire activity is along Warm Springs Creek. By Jason Kauffman. Idaho Mountain Express Staff Writer.
The fire began in Warm Springs Creek, burned all over the place, and now the last major flames are back in Warm Springs Creek.
Continue Reading →Salle Englehart, WRF’s Vice President, was kind enough to email me this report from Aug. 27 (or 28?). People are seeing the Agates. Kathie Lynch told me the same.
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Wolfwatching on Dunraven
by Salle Engelhardt
Yesterday I was given the day off and decided to take […]
Continue Reading →Invasive weed a fuel for West’s wildfires. By Patrick O’Driscoll, USA Today.
This is a fine and an easy-to-understand article on the role cheatgrass plays in the range fires of today’s West.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way — conservationists were to be held to blame for the fires and Larry Craig was […]
Continue Reading →Scarcity of wild food and ample food in town, led 3 bears into Jackson on Aug. 28 (at least I guess because the story is written in an unusual tense).
Story in the Jackson Hole News and Guide. By Corey Hatch.
Continue Reading →Senator Larry Craig’s predicament is hardly news, so most of this story is now old news. U.S. Senate Environment Committee Member Fined for Lewd Behavior. ENS. However, the story describes some of the recent actions the Senator has taken against protecting our environment. This and the WWP blog have also chronicled his attempt to […]
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