July 2010

  • About $15-million on Yellowstone- My opinion. Anyone who has traveled extensively will find many Park and public land projects were originally built with stimulus funds from the Great Depression. You will often find a cabin, amphitheater, trail, etc. was built by the New Deal’s CCC or WPA.  Despite the controversy over the stimulus funds for…

  • There have been many large scale changes to the land in recent years, including wolf restoration , but not just wolves- Predator puzzle. Study raises questions over what’s killing Bitterroot elk. By Alex Sakariassen. Missoula Independent. People tend to approach these questions with their minds made up.  What I see when I visit compared to…

  • [vodpod id=Video.4103606&w=512&h=328&fv=video%3D1550347813%26amp%3Bplayer%3Dviral] Grousing at windmills | Need to Know | PBS

  • Kathie says mid-summer watching is better than she expected- Here is Kathie Lynch’s latest wolf update. Ralph Maughan – – – – – – – – Copyright © Kathie Lynch Watchers must rise very early on the long summer days in Yellowstone to try to see wolves before they bed down in the shade to escape…

  • Great news!  Moose were already spreading southward, but they got an assist- Moose on the rise in Colorado, Summit County. Colorado’s moose populations are growing, thanks to sky-high reintroduction operations. By Julie Sutor. Summit Daily news

  • Most scenic highway in Idaho is not the place for an industrial transportation corridor for tar sands monster modules- (opinion) Put the brakes on massive trucks on the U.S. 12 corridor in N. Idaho. Pete Zimowsky. Idaho Statesman. Link fixed – – – – My view. Butch Otter thinks this is the way to perk…

  • Its monies come from royalties paid by offshore oil and gas producers in federal waters- The money for land and water acquisition has never been needed so much. The money comes from the oil companies, and they have been paying it for years. The only thing stopping its full authorized expenditure level has been Congress…

  • Oregon Fish and Wildlife hires a rider to keep wolves and livestock apart- This worked in Idaho and Montana back in the days before state wolf management. The states don’t even try.  Defenders is still doing something a bit like this in Idaho with the Phantom Hill Pack under the grudging toleration of Idaho Fish…

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