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Brian Ertz

  • Censorship and Cop Brutality in the New Bison Wars

    Brian Ertz

    Eric Stewart of BFC has published an article in CounterPunch: Notes of a Buffalo Campaigner Censorship and Cop Brutality in the New Bison Wars By Eric Stewart It is certainly worth a read and may shed light on what BFC activists perceive coming from agencies.

  • Colony collapse disorder

    Brian Ertz

    Perhaps you’ve heard – the bees are missing… Being among other things a horticulturist, I am acutely aware of the implications. Entomologists, biologists, ecologists, and a host of other disciplines take note: The bees are missing ~ and no one knows why ~ Buzz Off The Economist Colony collapse disorder, as the phenomenon has become…

  • Letters from the West: Owyhee coalition still standing

    Brian Ertz

    Rocky Barker has written about the Owyhee Initiative in the Idaho Statesman: Letters from the West: Owyhee coalition still standing

  • Bold fight for control of rural West countryside

    Brian Ertz

    The Salt Lake Tribune has published an interesting story about public land disputes in Utah. Local authorities there are thumbing their noses at federal regulation of federal public land. The result of such localized insistance of authority is sadly predictable: State Rep. Mike Noel, a Republican from the southern community of Kanab, said: It gets…

  • Fluvial grayling denied species protection

    Brian Ertz

    FWS keeps on keeping on… purging ESA protections. Not surprising given the previous post. Wolves, Grizzlies, Slickspot peppergrass, Fluvial graylings, the list goes on and on – We are witnessing the political dismemberment of what is supposed to be an agency guided by science – instead plundered by political obstructionists and public land profiteers. Link…

  • Luthi removes self from wolf issue

    Brian Ertz

    Here’s a hoot from the Billings Gazette: Randall Luthi, a former Wyoming state House speaker who was recently appointed to the No. 2 spot at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said he will not be involved in the dispute between Wyoming and the federal agency over wolves. Luthi is barred from involvement with the…

  • Michigan men sentenced for killing wolves

    Brian Ertz

    The Mining Gazette out of Michingan tells of two men who get two sentences for killing wolves in Michigan. Both wolves were killed on the same day in different places. The two thousand and a bit of probation seems light to me, especially given their listed status – Men sentenced for killing wolves By KURT…

  • N. Arizona off-roaders fear near ban

    Brian Ertz

    ATV riders in northern Arizona’s Coconino NF are looking at a ban on off-roading as the scars of their less responsible take a toll on the land. N. Ariz. off-roaders fear a near-ban Published: Arizona Daily Star AP

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