From the daily archives: Wednesday, March 11, 2009

House Votes Down Omnibus Public Lands Bill

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Its consideration under the “suspension of the rules” procedure was its downfall. A 2/3 vote is required-

House Votes Down Omnibus Public Lands Bill. House rules requiring a two-thirds vote proved to be its undoing. By Bill Schneider. New West

The vote was 282 in favor and 144 against.

I still don’t know why […]

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Hear The Buffalo

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Yellowstone bears emerging from slumber

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It’s that time of year again.

Yellowstone bears emerging from slumber
Associated Press

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Yellowstone Alga Found To Detoxify Arsenic

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Biodiversity anyone?

Yellowstone Alga Found To Detoxify Arsenic
Science Daily

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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