From the daily archives: Thursday, May 21, 2009

Hayes is finally confirmed to number two Interior Post

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Some concessions to Robert Bennett (R-Utah) on oil and gas leases was needed-

Here is the story. Senate GOP releases hold on Interior nominee. Politico. Salazar probably had to agree to look into offering tghe oil and gas leases next to the national parks that the courts and he had killed. Grrrrr.
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Former National Park Director gets appointment to Interior Post

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Robert G. Stanton will be Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Policy, Management, and Budget-

Stanton was National Park Director under Clinton

Here is the news release from the Department of Interior:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today appointed former National Park Service Director Robert G. Stanton as […]

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One of the worst poachers in Montana history goes to the Pen

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Steve Slavinsky will do five years in Montana State Prison-

‘Serial wildlife killer’. By Jodi Hansen Bozeman Chronicle Staff Writer.

Should he have received a stiffer sentence?

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Game management

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Brucellosis is perpetuated by Wyoming feed grounds

“If we could get rid of feed grounds and reduce population, we could solve much of our brucellosis problem,” Tom Roffe said.

Game management
By DANIEL PERSON
Bozeman Daily Chronicle

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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