“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And unfortunately, most Utah residents have always seen thick, green grass as drop-dead gorgeous. It is that, but the allure is also hideously unnatural.”
Utahans live in a desert. Green lawns are a huge waste of scarce water. Editorial by the Salt Lake Tribune.
Continue Reading →Bison Advocates go for space. By Jeff Martin, USA TODAY
Continue Reading →Bison Brawl. Horse Butte residents seeks to shield animals from over-reaching lawsuit. By Matthew Brown.
Brown writes that the plaintiffs in this lawsuit, the Montana Stockgrowers Association who filed the suit on behalf of rancher Bob Myers and the Sitz Angus Ranch, run cattle near Horse Butte.
I did a Google search. The Sitz […]
Continue Reading →For a long time we had a link to “Idaho Wolves: Myths and Facts.” Many people used it to get accurate facts on the number of livestock killed by wolves, effects on big game herds, etc.
Because of its success a new, much more ambitious web site of a similar nature has replaced it. It […]
Continue Reading →This article is about the difference between the Big Wood River Valley and the adjacent Sawtooth Valley.
Regarding the large effort being made so keep the Phantom Hill Pack out of trouble, I want to add that our organization, the Wolf Recovery Foundation, is a financial supporter of this project.
Protecting the remaining roadless areas on the national forests is not nearly as controversial as designating Wilderness areas, but these areas have no real protection under the Bush Administration, or before until the executive order by President Clinton.
The New York Times says “There Ought to be a Law” to protect them.
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Continue Reading →Open up the 1922 Colorado River Compact? Fighting words!
This is probably the best piece on the implications of McCain;s statement.
Diary of a Mad Voter: Joan McCarter
McCain’s Water Woes
“For a Senator from a Western state, John McCain is showing some serious disconnectedness from the issues that matter out […]
All last summer Montana’s air was filthy from forest fires in Idaho. This year has been much better, but enough fires have now been started by lightning in central Idaho and central Oregon that Montana is getting pretty hazy.
Smoke from wildfires turns air ‘unhealthy’ in region. By MICHAEL JAMISON of the Missoulian
You […]
Continue Reading →This is very good news!! They were almost extinct 15 years ago.
Sockeye numbers reach highest level in decades. A total of 386 sockeye salmon had arrived in the Sawtooth Valley by Tuesday [August 19]. By JASON KAUFFMAN, Idaho Mountain Express Staff Writer
Continue Reading →Rocky Barker has written extensively about the Yellowstone fires and fire policy in general with a book (Scorched Earth) on the role of forest fires fighting and the history of the public lands.
Today he has a feature article on how the lessons from ’88 have been learned […]
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