The Subsidized Destruction of the American West Continues. $1.35 per AUM
The Federal grazing fee for 2009 will be $1.35 per animal unit month (AUM) for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and $1.35 per head month (HM) for lands managed by the Forest Service. The grazing fee for 2009 is the […]
Continue Reading →Cheney to be guest of honor at American Museum of Fly Fishing-
Outdoor writer not happy about honoring the fish killer, former VP. On second thought, Mr. Cheney. By Ted Williams. Writers on the Range, High Country News.
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In fact, Cheney loves to fly cast. I’ve always thought a […]
Continue Reading →Status of Drift River terminal is not known due to homeland security secrecy-
Will a natural disaster trigger an oil spill disaster? We don’t know because of lingering secrecy from the Bush Administration.
Story: “Drift River Oil Terminal sits in harm’s way of volcano. SECRECY: Citing homeland security, officials give out little information about […]
Continue Reading →“Having the Department of Livestock manage wildlife is a direct conflict of interest.”
Here is the Bozeman newspaper’s take on the hearing to make bison “wildlife” in Montana. Note they have the bill number wrong. It is HB253, not 243.
Montana FWP did not support the bill.
Continue Reading →There is going to be a big fight over this rapidly growing development as its external costs become more widely known-
Environmentalists setting up anti-oilsands training camp in Calgary. By Kelly Cryderman, Canwest News Service
For more information, here is the blog “Oil Sands Watch.” It has interesting information like “Oil Sands […]
Continue Reading →Major volcano close to Anchorage and Seward could have major wildlife and economic impacts-
Alaskans brace for Redoubt Volcano eruption. By Dan Joling. AP
Continue Reading →Great news! Will it pan out?
Fish and Game forecasting the largest salmon returns in years. In other news, F&G will issue fewer moose tags and mountain goat permits in 2009 and 2010. By Roger Phillips. Idaho Statesman.
More money and more political battling have been used to restore salmon (and steelhead) than any […]
Continue Reading →Not a bad year for grizzlies in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, unlike the Greater Yellowstone-
Thirteen grizzlies were known to have died, eleven were human caused. Is it significant that the grizzly in the NCDE is still listed as a “threatened species” and the Greater Yellowstone population has been delisted?
Graphical display of […]
Continue Reading →Those who write for this blog don’t think, “beef, it’s what for dinner.” If you care about the future of humankind, at least it shouldn’t be.
This from the Scientific American.
Continue Reading →NW Montana wolf shows up in Southeast Idaho too.
Idaho wolf B-271M, which was born to the Steel Mountain Pack, has shown up again west of Cody, WY after disappearing from Yellowstone’s wolf watchers last summer.
Will he form a successful pack?
Also, there is a wolf from NW Montana in Southeast Idaho which is […]
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