From the daily archives: Saturday, August 18, 2007

Bush Administration tries again with new Forest Service regulations

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The Administration’s earlier attempt to revise the rules for national forest planning were quickly shot down by a federal court because they made the forest plans no longer subject to serious public comment and attempted to avoid NEPA for what had been the guiding document as to how a national forest would be managed for […]

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Some photos of the Idaho fires near Warm Lake (South Fork Salmon River headwaters area)

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These were sent to me by a local resident. The photographer told me these are typical of “what I saw in that area and it is what burned on Monday.”

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Feds, Conservationists Offer Reward for Oregon Wolf Killer

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PORTLAND, Oregon, August 17, 2007 (ENS) – Two conservation groups have sweetened the pot for anyone who has information about the illegal shooting of a female endangered gray wolf in eastern Oregon last October.

Oregon Wild and the Center for Biological Diversity Thursday offered a $4,000 reward to anyone who can provide information leading to […]

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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