Day: November 15, 2007
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At Banff highway underpass fences designed to help predators kill elk
There is a huge problem at Banff NP because of the 4-lane Trans-Canada highway that bisects the Park. There are also way too many elk in the Bow River Valley near the town of Banff. An experiment is underway to try to make fences and highway underpasses tilted in favor of elk predators. Use of…
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Rocky Barker: gold glitters into the billions for mercury emitting Nevada mines [and maybe poisoning Idaho]
Yesterday it was announced that one of Idaho’s most famous fishing streams, Silver Creek, had high levels of mercury contamination in its fish. This is a real shocker because Silver Creek is a spring fed creek, indicating to me that the mercury blowing up from Nevada’s gold pits into Idaho (and over to Utah) might…