Mining

  • Jaguar photographed on site of planned copper pit mine south of Tucson

    Ralph Maughan

    Ten photos of jaguar near at site of 6,990-acre Rosemont mine project area- Arizona is pockmarked with abandoned copper pit after pit and associated toxic tailings.  There are also some active pits and old ones starting back up. Finally there are plans for another new giant pit on the north end of the Santa Rita Mountains…

  • 1 Million birds might be dying each year due to PVC mining claim markers.

    Ken Cole

    The American Bird Conservancy notes in a press release that a million birds may be dying each year after becoming trapped inside PVC pipes used to mark mining claims throughout the country, but mainly in the west. Small birds apparently see the opening of PVC pipes used to mark mining claims as a hollow suitable…

  • Collaboration on natural resource management is divide and conquer

    Ralph Maughan

    Collaboration is all the rage. How it has worked in Montana- Past stories here at The Wildlife News have not been very friendly to the process called “collaboration”  although we have not written about it for a while.  That does not mean it has disappeared nor become friendly to conservation of our forests, grasslands, sage…

  • Two-headed fish and more. Controversial report issued on effects of giant phosphate mine on the Idaho-Wyoming border

    Ralph Maughan

    Simplot Company report to justify lower water quality standards provokes big controversy- Anglers don’t like pulling fish off their lure that look like mutant monsters. The accusation that selenium poisoning from the Smoky Canyon phosphate mine is killing fish, creating awful deformities, and being picked up into the ecosystem in general has greeted  a 700-page draft…

  • Assessing the Regulatory Landscape for Greater Sage-grouse

    Brian Ertz

    The effort to list the Greater Sage-grouse via the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has been an uphill battle.  However, even as the end-game has yet to be realized, the effort itself has been remarkably successful at prompting bureaucratic backflips and a whole lot of paper-shuffling to accommodate consideration of the species.  Unfortunately, many of the existing and developing…

  • Millions of Bird Deaths in Nevada

    Ken Cole

    Over my years of traipsing around public lands in the West I have come across hundreds of uncapped 3-foot tall PVC pipes sticking out of the ground. For a long time I didn’t know the purpose of the pipes but later came to understand that they were used as markers for mining claims. I’ve peered…

  • “That’s not for us,” say Alaskans after seeing Bingham, Utah mine

    Ralph Maughan

    Utah’s Kennecott pit shocks Native Alaskans contemplating the proposed giant Pebble Mine- Kennecott’s pit on the edge of Salt Lake City has been a fixture of the area for many years. It polluted the ground water and the smelter poisoned the air, but it did not threaten a way of life, nor the larger area.…

  • EPA concerned about Monsanto pollution control dam

    Ken Cole

    EPA wants the dam to release clean, treated water. The dam built to keep selenium and heavy metals also blocks water flows to the Blackfoot River. EPA concerned about Monsanto pollution control dam. By JOHN MILLER – Associated Press

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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

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