From the daily archives: Friday, May 1, 2009

Paying a Price for Loving Red Meat

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Once it was a luxury. Too bad for us it didn’t stay that way-

Paying a Price for Loving Red Meat. By Jane E. Brody. New York Times.

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Hazing Begins: Helicopter Harasses Bison, Grizzlies

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From Buffalo Field Campaign’s Update from the Field

It has been an intense week for buffalo. BFC volunteers are out in the field and on the road with the buffalo nearly 24 hours a day. If you are able to join us on the front lines, please see our call for volunteers below. The buffalo […]

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Earth satellites tell the truth: Grazing threatens wildlife habitat in West

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“. . . ubiquitous public lands grazing has contributed to the decline of native wildlife,” concludes the report entitled ‘Western Wildlife Under Hoof’.”

Wildearth Guardians has used satellite images and public land records to show the massive damage grazing of sheep and cattle does to the soil, water, forage, and wildlife of our public lands, […]

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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