Another roadblock to the use of Idaho Highway 12 and Montana highways as corridors for moving Alberta bound tar sand equipment-
This is good news, although likely temporary.
The turnouts constructed on the Montana side of Lolo Pass appear to be larger than the oil giant said and closer to Lolo Creek which already suffers […]
Continue Reading →Threshold Number of ESA Protected Desert Tortoise Killed In Construction of Solar Thermal Plant
We just received notice that the BLM has suspended construction of some of the the Ivanpah Solar Thermal Power Plant due to the project reaching its upper limit number of tortoise killed for the Biological Opinion and incidental take limits […]
Continue Reading →Note that this replaces the 27th edition. That edition will now move slowly into the depths of the blog.
Please do not post entire articles here, just the link, the title, and your comments. Posting other people’s writing is a violation of copyright law and takes up too much space.
Continue Reading →Anti-Wolfer’s Success In An End-Run Delisting of Wolves MUST Ultimately Backfire
George Wuerthner wrote this now apt essay over a year ago, published in New West last September, suggesting that should anti-wolf interests succeed in delisting wolves and fail to exercise restraint in killing wolves that it would ultimately backfire.
Continue Reading →Wolves will be removed from the Endangered Species List in Idaho, Montana, and parts of Oregon, Washington, and Utah within 60 days.
Wolves to come off endangered list within 60 days
Associated Press
President Obama will sign the bill into law and wolves will no longer enjoy the protection of the Endangered Species Act.
The House and Senate passed a budget bill which included the rider to delist wolves in Idaho, Montana and parts of Oregon, Washington, and Utah but leaves the status of wolves in Wyoming unchanged. […]
Continue Reading →There has been a flurry of press and opinion about the wolf delisting rider attached to the budget bill and the ongoing negotiations in Wyoming to change their wolf management plan in the last several days.
Some of the reporting is good and some misses important elements of the controversy but the issue has become […]
Continue Reading →I’m heading back home from a fruitless mission to find sign of sage grouse near leks (strutting grounds) along the Owyhee Front near Murphy, Idaho. We didn’t find any sign at all and fear that they are blinking out in this once productive stronghold.
We did find these dead coyotes though. There were actually […]
Continue Reading →Project already blading Mojave desert habitat
Google announces its private investment in Brightsource Energy, the proponent of the controversial Ivanpah Solar Thermal Project:
Google Solar Project: Google Invests $168 Million In Mojave Power Plant – Huffington Post
The commitment announced Monday is part of the financing that BrightSource Energy needs to build a solar […]
Continue Reading →So much for Harry Reid’s promise that the budget bill wouldn’t be used to carry anti-environment riders
Around Christmas, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that the administration would be pursuing a BLM Wild Lands initiative, vague direction to BLM to inventory lands which exhibit wilderness characteristics for future Congressional Wilderness designation consideration.
It was a […]
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