From the daily archives: Thursday, June 9, 2011

May 2011 Riparian Assessments of Jarbidge Resource Area

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Recently, Western Watersheds Project won a court victory halting corporate livestock ranching on 450,000 acres on the Jarbidge Field Office, BLM in southern Idaho. It was a sweet victory for sage grouse, wildlife, and other environmental values in southern Idaho – but it may or may not be short-lived.

Later this month, the Idaho […]

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U.S. Department of the Interior solicits design ideas for a new logo

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The U.S. Department of the Interior is looking for a new logo and has submitted its request to an online forum in where anyone can sign up to submit their ideas and compete for the $1000 award should their logo design be selected by the agency.

Logo: U.S. Department of the Interior – crowdSPRING

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Wallow Fire will have big impact on wildlife

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Giant fire is killing and maybe renewing-

The Wallow Fire continues its sweep across a mountainous region of Eastern Arizona, and is now reported burning into New Mexico. Wildlife are fleeing the flames and the smoke.  During the great Yellowstone Park area fires of 1988, animals died, but surprising few large animals died for the […]

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‎"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