Made by Man (Active Restoration)
Dan McCormick combines art, ecology, and engineering to build sculptures that simulate a natural process/feature (ex: beaver dam) of a typical watershed that filters sediment, recharges a floodplain, establishes riparian vegetation/wildlife habitat and promotes general watershed health.
When people actively work ~ say, planting willows or spreading seed ~ to […]
Continue Reading →Bison will be able to occupy the Horse Butte area for the first time-
Finally, the bison will be able to leave the Park and occupy this now cow-free area area for the first time this winter.
Conservation groups and the couple who bought Horse Butte have prepared the way, and it looks like the […]
Continue Reading →Biologists push for action on grizzly plan. Bear population continues in decline despite 2002 warning in report.
Darcy Henton, The Edmonton Journal.
Perhaps only 500 grizzlies are left in this vast province, fewer than the Bob Marshall/Glacier National Park grizzly recovery area* just to the south of Alberta.
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*Officially named the Northern […]
Continue Reading →Some time ago, this web site posted the opinion of public lands rancher and state legislator Bert Brackett on the Murphy fire complex.
Here again is Brackett’s opinion. Failed policy based on flawed science has gotten us here. Guest opinion in the Idaho Statesman. Brackett blamed the Western Watersheds Project because it won a […]
Continue Reading →2007 fire conditions are off the charts
Officials are finding it difficult to predict fire behavior because this year’s data don’t fit any model. Experts say climate change is a big part of this season’s extremes. By Rocky Barker, Idaho Statesman.
Busy Week for Fires in Northern Rockies. Record-Breaking Fire Season? New West. […]
Continue Reading →Editorial. Top predator, Wolf delisting in West is premature. The Salt Lake Tribune. March 10, 2007
Continue Reading →This is a story about beaver being reintroduced to places in southeast Idaho where they have been wiped out. Because of the natural abundance of aspen and willows in Eastern Idaho, the area is naturally better beaver habitat than points north, such as central Idaho and Yellowstone.
In the past, many beaver dams were deliberately […]
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