From the daily archives: Thursday, April 12, 2012

Rocky Barker: Idaho Fish and Game releases details of its wolf-trapper investigation

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ID F & G does report on Bransford-

Rocky Barker has done a story on their report.  Among other things they found he did nothing at all illegal but showed bad judgment posing for and posting a photo like that.

I thought it […]

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After 18 years of trespass BLM still hasn’t rounded up cattle in southern Nevada

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Even after 18 years, the Nevada BLM won’t round up trespassing cattle citing “safety concerns”.   I’ve seen the lack of enforcement of rangeland standards on many occasions but when faced with even the most egregious lawlessness, the BLM does nothing.  The lawlessness of public lands ranching is displayed in its full grandeur and leaves […]

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Alberta’s tar sand pits create deer, wolves and decimate mountain caribou

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Oh, the many effects of extracting the world’s dirtiest oil!

Despite the huge PR offensive by big oil, Alberta, and Canada’s right wing government, it is hard to overwhelm the public into thinking digging big holes to get out the bitumen is a great idea. Scientists, bloggers, conservation groups, and even segments of the Democratic […]

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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