December 2010
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Another 2010-was-a-deadly-year-for-bighorn story- The culprit is almost entirely pneumonia, and almost all of it, maybe all of it, comes from domestic sheep and goats. The Western Watersheds Project, and closely related groups like Advocates for the West, are just about the only organizations that are willing to step forward, tell the truth, and go after…
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Finally, it looks like a real effort to keep antelope bottlenecks west of Pinedale from closing- Over the years, we have written about the Trapper’s Point pronghorn migration bottleneck a number of times. There has been growing awareness that the thousands-of-year-old antelope migration from the Wyoming high desert over the Gros Ventre each year, down…
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The next 200 or so loads are still on the table- Boise attorney Merlyn Clark, hearing officer on the oil megaloads that will use U.S. Highway 12 across north central Idaho into Montana has ruled that the first 4 megaloads could be transported safely with “minimum inconvenience” up narrow U.S. Highway 12 to the Montana…
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Plan might copy relatively successful effort to conserve Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front- Given the very scenic nature of much of the A-B Front, in a way it is surprising this proposal didn’t emerge earlier. Personally, I think it is a great idea. Story in the Billings Gazette on plans to conserve the Absaroka/Beartooth Front.
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Stronger winter storms are the indirect result of global warming- There are a lot of people who tend to think snowy weather means there is no global warming (they tend to watch Fox News). Actually, the opposite is true, at least under the current level of warming. What does a blizzard on the U.S. East…
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Dry country elk herd’s major difficulty said to be agricultural damage- I didn’t know anything about the elk in this part of Washington state. I’m glad learn that a herd of 600-700 was established 30 years ago and does well. Elk continue to thrive in Mid-Columbia desert. By Annette Cary, Herald staff writer
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An annual grass worse than cheatgrass Medusahead grass has the ability to take over a landscape like cheatgrass but nothing will eat it after it dies and dries out in the early summer months. It is becoming a huge problem in some areas and I’ve seen allotments with vast expanses where it is about the…
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Idaho activists successfully delay megaloads into 2011- Hearing officer does not issue a decision on the international oil company megaloads sitting at the Port of Lewiston, Idaho. Decision will be coming out at an undefined future date. No ruling before Christmas on megaloads. Lewiston (ID) Tribune on-line