From the daily archives: Monday, March 2, 2015

The Sonoran Desert National Monument Plan to continue grazing is ruled “arbitrary and capricious”

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Federal Court Finds the BLM Broke the Law in Permitting Desert Grazing-

News release

Contacts:
Greta Anderson, Western Watersheds Project (520)623-1878
Sandy Bahr, Grand Canyon Chapter of the Sierra Club (602)253-8633
Laurie Rule,  Advocates for the West (503)914-6388

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Phoenix, AZ.  Two conservation groups have won their legal claims against the […]

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Controversy in Idaho Legislature over the threat posed by the meningeal worm to elk, mule deer, and moose

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Elk breeders push to relax rules. Legislature close to rejecting the breeders-

White-tailed deer and the parasitic meningeal worm (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) coexist fairly well. They have fought each other to a near standstill in evolutionary conflict spanning perhaps a million years. The whitetails rarely get sick from these adult nematode type worms that live in […]

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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