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  • Wyoming Governor Makes a good Case to Protect the Wyoming Range

    Ralph Maughan

    Gov makes good case to protect Wyoming Range. By the Casper Star Tribune Editorial Board. Once the gas companies have a public land oil and gas lease, they have purchased not just the right to drill, but the right to develop; and now they have leases near the Hoback River on the Bridger-Teton National Forest.…

  • Freudenthal's opposition to gas drilling in the Wyoming Range

    Ralph Maughan

    As gas wells spread like cancer across across the upper Green River basin, Wyoming’s governor is listening to public opinion and seems to be hardening his stance against the drive to drill the adjacent mountains on the Bridger-Teton National Forest.  Freudenthal skeptical of Range drilling. By The Associated Press post 1076

  • Oregon State U. "Large carnivores promote healthy ecosystems by keeping browsers on edge"

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is a good article about the benefits of cougar populations in Zion National Park. The deer have nearly eliminated cottonwood reproduction in Zion Canyon, the main tourist attraction. It is full of people and deer. The large number of people in this congested canyon have scared away the cougar. There are a huge number…

  • Gannett Peak, WY may lose all its glaciers in 20 years

    Ralph Maughan

    The highest mountain in Wyoming, Gannett Peak, in the Wind River Range is famous for its snowy top and its many glaciers, but they are melting fast. Story in the Jackson Hole News and Guide. post 1031

  • Rocky Mountain Front gas lease ban is working

    Ralph Maughan

    So far just one place has been saved from all the gas development in the West. It’s the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana. Story in the Great Falls Tribune. Rocky Mountain Front lease agreement starts something good. – – – – Here is the earlier story from Dec. 10, 2006. Rocky Mountain Front (MT) finally…

  • Hiking adjacent to Pocatello today

    Ralph Maughan

    One of the great things about living in a public state, especially a serious public land state like Idaho, is the backcountry quickly available. This is uplands today at 4:30 PM above Lead Draw, a 5-minute drive from my house and a one hour hike. Since the Sierra Club, the Pocatello Trail Machine Assn., the…

  • Defending the West is virtue

    Ralph Maughan

    At Potamogeton Park, Madison Range, Montana. Gallatin National Forest. Photo by Ralph Maughan I believe that spending as much of your life as possible defending the Western lands, water, air and wildlife is an act of pure virtue.Your actions needs no other justification, but make sure you get plenty of time out on the land…

  • Sportsmen Unite To Save Wyoming Range

    Ralph Maughan

    The Wyoming Range is a beautiful and wildlife-rich mountain range in SW Wyoming. Some folks might think this storyline might be a reference to rangeland in the state of Wyoming. No it is the name of a mountain range 70 miles long and about 25 miles wide. At the headwaters of Lunch Creek and 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

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

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