From the daily archives: Monday, November 12, 2007

Whose Sheep? How wild sheep lose out to their domesticated brethren

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Earlier I linked to the WWP blog story “Bighorn Sheep Threaten Western Way of Life?”

Now the Boise Weekly has reprinted an article from High Country News giving more background into the controversy that led to the successful lawsuit this spring that kept the Payette National Forest from ignoring its court ordered duty to […]

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Yellowstone Volcano Inflating With Molten Rock At Record Rate

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For the last 3 years the floor of much of the Yellowstone caldera has been rising at 3 inches a year, much faster than previous uplifts. In the past, of course, the uplift has always stopped and then fallen.

This time will probably be the same.

There have been many versions of the story the […]

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Motion triggered cameras show benefits of timber road obliteration on Clearwater N.F. in Idaho

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Story by John Cramer. Missoulian.

One of keys to restoring the elk population in the upper Clearwater may be removing unneeded and “bleeding” logging roads than killing native bears, cougar and wolves.

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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