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• If Wild Horses Aren’t Going To Be Managed – Why Should Anything Else?

  
  NVFBBLOG.ORG — Authority: 132
  By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President In the constant and predictable fashion of those who do not believe that Wild Horses should be subject to population control or any other fashion of management – a lawsuit has been filed and has been successfully used to delay the planned gather of Wild Horses that the ...
  4 hours ago

• The need to manage national forests as carbon sinks

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 524
  Forest fire prevention? Thinning? Maximize size of individual tress? Leave it alone? It’s hard to say The article below is related to the one posted about “Sen. Udall sponsors bill to attack pine beetles.” It’s good to finally see some attention to the role of forests as carbon sinks, but it is not clear ...
  7 hours ago

• Fire Rights and Wrongs

  
  The Antiplanner — Authority: 508
  Ray Rasker, the Antiplanner’s friend from the days when the Antiplanner worked primarily for environmental groups, has published a paper offering ten ways to reduce firefighting costs in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). That’s the private land where people are building homes near fire-prone federal lands. ...
  14 hours ago

• Sour economy may be a boon to Boise Foothills preservation

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 524
  With many landowners eager to sell, much of the $5 million left in a fund to buy property could go to land deals- Sour economy may be a boon to Boise Foothills preservation . Bethann Stewart. Idaho Statesman.
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• 38 Onshore Oil and Natural Gas Lease Sales on Public Lands Set for 2010

  
  Candid Conservatives — Authority: 129
  This may indicate one of two things. More oil and gas or more lawsuits by enviroMentalists. NEWS BLAZE Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Tuesday the department next year will hold 38 onshore oil and natural gas lease sales on public lands, mostly in the West, including one in Alaska. The announcement ...
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• Canyons of the Ancients National Monument Gains Important New Acreage

  
  PreservationNation — Authority: 466
  Written by LouAnn Jacobson On Friday, November 13–an easy day for me to remember–the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Canyons of the Ancients National Monument acquired 4,573 acres. There are seven individual parcels: six are inholdings inside the monument boundaries and surrounded on all sides by BLM land; ...
  1 week ago

• DeChristopher probably going to prison

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 524
  Fake bidder for oil and gas leases to stop last Administration’s  leasing near Utah national parks loses his bid to rest his trial on global warming- It looks like Tim DeChristopher will pay heavily for his civil disobedience. Republican prosecutors were not amused, and the judge will not allow a defense based on ...
  1 week ago

• From my e-mail inbox

  
  Uncommon Ground — Authority: 426
  Date:   November 20, 2009 From:   Dominick A. DellaSala, Ph.D., Chief Scientist and President             National Center for Conservation Science and Policy, Ashland OR Dear Kent, Calling all scientists!  President Obama has signaled his interest in upholding the national Roadless Area Conservation ...
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• Temporary Road Closures North of Burns

  
  Pacific Northwest Backroad Adventures — Authority: 133
  Hines, OR – Approximately two miles of road and trail will be closed in the Coal Pit Spring/Cave Gulch area northwest of Burns near Boulder Canyon beginning Tuesday, December 1, 2009. During the summer, unauthorized levels of surface disturbance occurred in this area, preventing some access to public lands and ...
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• Interior Board rejects all appeals to BLM travel plan in SW Montana

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 524
  New rules governing use of vehicles on BLM land will now go into effect- I’m not familiar with the details of vehicle use in this area, but it sounds like all sides appealed, although probably more on the off-roaders side. Travel plans, once relatively non-controversial documents, have become major public land ...
  1 week ago

• Idaho to pay to settle lawsuit on who can bid for grazing leases

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 524
  Lawsuit’s aftermath forces Idaho’s Land Board set rules allowing conservationists to lease state grazing lands- The Western Watersheds Project was born when Jon Marvel outbid a rancher at a state grazing lease auction, and the Land Board gave the lease to the rancher anyway*. Finally, Idaho’s Land Board is ...
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• PCB discovery could endanger Calif. marsh swap

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 431
  Greenwire : Elevated levels of carcinogenic PCBs could upend a controversial deal that seeks to help restore a degraded salt marsh in Southern California. Long Beach has been prepared to swap a downtown service yard for nearly 38 acres of wetland , meant to help protect the remnants of a salt marsh at the mouth ...
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• Legal Funding Another Multiple Use?

  
  NVFBBLOG.ORG — Authority: 132
  By:  Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President Since coming to the West over 21 years ago the concept of multiple use for our federally managed lands has been a central, core value that I have been taught to appreciate.  The multiple uses these lands provide include recreation, wildlife habitat, livestock grazing, ...
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• Western Watersheds puts up a bison page

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 524
  A new resource page for the case Western Watersheds Project, et al. v. Salazar I hope this new page will prove to be another site for good information on efforts to compell the Park Service and Forest Service to stop cooperating in the bison slaughter and eventually allow a significant number of bison to live on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Talk about reintroducing bison to Banff National Park area

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 524
  Alberta opposes Parks Canada plan for bison in Banff- I’m not suprised Alberta opposes it;  a regressive province, but it sure works for me. Story in the Calgary Herald.
  2 weeks ago

• Report from The Campo, CA Border (pics)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  he fence was sabotaged a few days ago with a pole removed near the place of the assassination of Agent Rosas. This is usually an indication of an impending drug smuggling. The fence was repaired, and the Border Patrol remains on heightened alert with increased patrols, scope trucks and a Border Patrol vehicle at ...
  2 weeks ago

• Supervisor opposes massive solar project in San Bernardino County [Updated]

  
  Greenspace — Authority: 484
  A solar energy project proposed for development on public land in the Mojave Desert would create jobs mostly for Las Vegas and electricity for San Francisco at the expense of the relatively pristine area of east San Bernardino County where it would be built, San Bernardino County Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt said ...
  2 weeks ago

• Oh, Give me a home, where the buffalo roam...

  
  Demarcated Landscapes — Authority: 113
  ...and the U.S. government doesnt slaughter them as soon as they leave the arbitrary boundaries of Yellowstone National Park. Thats the goal of a lawsuit filed this week by conservation groups and individuals including: WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECT BUFFALO FIELD CAMPAIGN TATANKA OYATE GALLATIN WILDLIFE ...
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• Olympic National Forest’s Motor Vehicle Use Map Has Been Published and is Soon to be Released

  
  Pacific Northwest Backroad Adventures — Authority: 133
  Olympic National Forest1835 Black Lake Blvd.Olympia, WA 98512-5623 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDate: November 9, 2009Public Affairs Office: (360) 956-2274 FAX (360) 956-2330Olympia, WA – Olympic National Forest’s Motor Vehicle Use Map, which identifies routes available for motor vehicle use, has been published and will ...
  3 weeks ago

• More on Interior Appropriations as it applies to Montana

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 524
  There are numerous items. The largest goes for complicated land transactions near the Blackfoot River- One of the items we need to find more about is Jon Tester’s addition of $1-million to pay livestock owners for livestock killed for wolves. It also provides funds for  projects keeping wolves away from ...
  3 weeks ago

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