This is the big question in the interior West-
So, naturally it doesn’t get covered on TV or the debates.
Barkers blog. Who is the West’s next federal landlord? Idaho Statesman.
I guess I’m not an “independent observer,” but Secretary Kempthorne did a good job as Secretary of Interior only in comparison with that […]
Continue Reading →So, is this what “drill, baby drill” means? 😉
As Congress prepares to debate expansion of drilling in taxpayer-owned coastal waters, the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal — including allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy companies, cocaine use and sexual […]
Continue Reading →A last-minute rewrite of Endangered Species Act regulations is rash and futile. Editorial by the Idaho Statesman.
This rewrite, or gutting of the Act, is going to disappear if the right candidate wins the presidency.
Continue Reading →Secretary of the Interior Kempthorne unveiled the Fish and Wildlife Service’s new “credit” and “banking” system for threatened and endangered species protections. The idea is that federal agencies will be allowed to take actions that inflict damage to protected species populations on federal land if they have accrued enough “credits” from conservation programs on private […]
Continue Reading →Wolf hunters urged to use restraint. By Chris Merrill. Casper Star-Tribune
Some of the supporters of turning 87% of Wyoming into a free-fire zone for wolves seem to be having second thoughts.
And its just not true that there is no wolf habitat in Wyoming’s wolf-are-vermin-zone. The Daniel Pack has formed and reformed time […]
Continue Reading →Conservation groups have taken action after the story about ranch hands luring wolves in so they will kill calves, so the wolves will then killed by the government “to protect the livestock.”
For Immediate Release, January 3, 2008
Contact: Michael Robinson, (575) 534-0360
Conservationists Request Investigations of […]
Continue Reading →It is growing increasingly obvious the major threat to grizzly bears is lack of habitat. As the quality of their food sources declines, the same amount of country will support fewer bears. As a result they range more widely and get into trouble as Western development continues to expand into their habitat.
Well there’s not […]
Continue Reading →Congressmen Nick Joe Rahall (D-WV), George Miller (D-CA), Norm Dix (D-WA), Wayne Gilcrest (R-MD), Jim Saxton (R-NJ) have written a fine letter to Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne opposing Northern Rockies wolf delisting.
Please thank them. It is rare when we have had political leaders to thank on this issue.
Here is the […]
Continue Reading →For those who remember or who have read of him, Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Interior, James Watt, was infamous for his hostility toward protecting wildlife and the public lands. Kempthorne has done even less to list endangered species while he cries false poverty.
Rocky Barker at the Idaho Statesman, who has been writing recently […]
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