From the daily archives: Monday, February 15, 2010

ID Fish and Game shows they are turning Idaho's wolf plan into one like Wyoming's

On February 15, 2010 By

Leaked memo shows massive effort coming to kill off Idaho wolves-

The memo below from Cal Groen, Director of the Idaho Fish and Game Department confirms my call about six months ago that the Department was working with, or told to work with livestock interests to devise a method for a massive wolf reduction program.

[…]

Continue Reading →

Have you run across any interesting news, February 11 to 19, 2010

On February 15, 2010 By

If so, post the URL, name of the story and the newspaper, magazine, etc. it comes from and a few of your thoughts-

Note that this replaces the first edition. That edition can be found slowly moving down into the “bowels” of the blog.

Continue Reading →

Researchers turn up the noise to battle bark beetles

On February 15, 2010 By

Is artificial bark beetle noise a silver bullet?

Except at great expense and on a small scale, insecticides, logging or pheromone traps haven’t touched this beetle epidemic that extends from the Yukon to New Mexico.  Here is some thinking outside the box that might work. Of course, it too might only work over small areas.

[…]

Continue Reading →

Calendar

February 2010
S M T W T F S
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28  

Quote

‎"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