It took a long time, but Western Watersheds and Advocates for the West seem to have a final victory
As a note, I am pleased to have been a plaintiff for the National Wildlife Federation in fighting this Bush era effort to exclude the public from having influence in grazing decisions, improperly grant property rights […]
Continue Reading →No one dead this time; relatively shallow water-
This well was in production, unlike the Deepwater Horizon, BP disaster. It tells me that major oil pollution might have become a permanent feature of the Gulf of Mexico.
Oil sheen spreading from Gulf platform explosion. By Alan Levin and Julie […]
Continue Reading →Defenders of Wildlife answers Butch Otter’s “political grandstanding”-
The writer of the Defender’s response is Rodger Schlickeisen, president of Defenders of Wildlife.
Ranchers will still get money for livestock losses. Rodger Schlickeisen guest editorial in the Idaho Statesman.
I can’t help but compare Otter’s red-faced response on this relatively small amount of money to […]
Continue Reading →Gradual purchase of private lands made the dam pointless-
You have probably crossed Spread Creek if you visited Grand Teton National Park. It is a broad swath of gravel with a tiny stream running through the sun-baked rocks.
I didn’t know the cause of this for many years. Finally I was shown the crumbling old […]
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