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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: 429
  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 days ago

• More on Interior Appropriations as it applies to Montana

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 483
  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 ...
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• Historic preservation ruling delays Nantucket site permitting

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 433
  Greenwire : A Massachusetts historic preservation officer held yesterday that two American Indian tribes’ claims to Nantucket Sound needs more study. The decision by Brona Simon, executive director of the Massachusetts Historical Society, will delay final approval for the Cape Wind project by up to a year, ...
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• Americans flock to the nation’s “best idea”

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 483
  Record Number of visits to Yellowstone Park in 2009- This has been in the news the last couple days. Rocky Barker blogged today about it, tying it to the recent popular PBS television film, “ The National Parks: America’s Best Idea .”  Here is Barker’s blog in the Idaho Statesman . Americans flock to ...
  6 days ago

• Seeking A Square Peg For A Round Hole

  
  NVFBBLOG.ORG — Authority: 131
  By:  Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President Over the past couple of days a conference was held in Sparks, Nevada, offered by the Society for Range Management.  The topic of the conference involved Wild Horses and Burro management and was intended to bring together various points of view regarding ways of ...
  6 days ago

• Another Western Watersheds Project victory in Arizona

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 483
  Western Watersheds Project Wins Summary Judgment on the 100,000 acre Byner Complex Allotments. BLM- This no “family ranch” but a spin-off of Freeport-McMoRan mining. Here is the WWP’s news release on the victory for the American people ♦Western Watersheds Project’s Arizona Office has been ...
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• The difference grazing cattle makes at the end of the season

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 483
  Comparison of two sites, Nov. 4, 2009, in the Mink Creek drainage south of Pocatello, Idaho- Mink Creek is a popular recreation area on the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, just south of Pocatello, Idaho. The first 3-4 miles have no livestock grazing. As the drainage gains slowly in elevation, it is grazed from ...
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• Schneider’s updates on Tester’s Wilderness bill

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 483
  Over at New West you can follow the Montana Wilderness controversy closely- Yesterday Ken Cole posted Senator Tester Betrays Montana Wilderness , a sharply critical opinion piece written by Brian Peck. Bill Schneider has been following Montana’s 30 year Wilderness controversy for some time in his columns at ...
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• Report: Barbed Wire Fences Deadly To Sage Grouse

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 483
  The impact to sage grouse numbers appears to be very large Fencing is harmful to wildlife © Brian Ertz 2009 The thousands and thousands of miles of barbed wire fence chopping up lands throughout the west is bad for wildlife for many reasons. Now, the impact that this installation for livestock production on ...
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• Canada works to keep boreal land as carbon sink

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 433
  ClimateWire : A series of initiatives has enabled Canadian provincial governments and aboriginal leaders to conserve the boreal forest , an area more than twice the size of California. “If you look across Canada , one of [the boreal forest’s] great values to us globally is its carbon storage value,” said ...
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• Rare ferret colony staying steady amid plague

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 433
  Greenwire : Wildlife officials say that one of the largest colonies of endangered black-footed ferrets in the nation is holding on even as a disease has wiped out their main prey. Officials discovered the sylvatic plague in the Conata Basin in May 2008. Since then, the disease has devastated the black-tailed ...
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• Oil and Gas Industry to Enjoy PA Budget Cuts

  
  Sierra Club Allegheny Group — Authority: 125
  If you wanted a free hand to drill with impunity for Pennsylvania’s buried oil and gas, you must have had an inner smile when you read about what was in the state’s budget. DEP . A cut of $56 million or 26.7 pct in the Department of Environment Protection’s budget. This could lead to the loss of 300 staff ...
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• After study, NPS alters fencing for pronghorns in Idaho

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 483
  Jackson Hole herd is not the only long pronghorn migration- Most people who follow wildlife news the West now know about the epic migration of the the pronghorn in Jackson Hole from summer to winter on desert south of Pinedale, WY and the big squeeze being put on this migration by the gas industry and subdivisions. ...
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• Many more stories on “goodies” in the Interior Appropriations bill

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 483
  Of course, Interior appropriations are not just for Montana - Here are a host more. Interior and Environment Appropriations Bill benefits Minnesota . Review-Messenger. Congress approves $475M to restore the Great Lakes . Deb Price / Detroit News Washington Bureau Boxer Secures Funding for Key Investments ...
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• Rocky Mountain Front, wildlife, and other projects get funded in Montana in Interior Appropriations Bill

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 483
  Bill includes funding to reimburse for wolf kills, but may also contain money for proactive measures- From what I’ve read, this sounds pretty good to me for wildlife and outdoors in Montana. Great Falls Tribune.
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• Area north of Gardiner closed due to bear activity

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 483
  Too many griz were feeding on gut piles from past hunters- The Beattie Gulch area on the Gallatin N.F. has been closed to hunting by the Forest Service. Larry Thorngren reported to us the other day that this gathering of grizzly bears was taking place. Hunters have been mauled before in Beattie Gulch, e.g., two in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Senate Committee Hearing Thursday on the Public Lands Service Corps

  
  The New Service — Authority: 122
  This coming Thursday the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will look at a bill to strengthen national service activity on public lands. The Public Lands Service Corps Act, s. 1442, would amend the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 and would: provide service-learning opportunities on public lands ...
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• Decision today on fishing restrictions off Rocky Point

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 433
  Greenwire : A task force today will decide on a recommendation on how much of the ocean off the Palos Verdes Peninsula should be protected under the Marine Life Protection Act. The waters off Rocky Point in Southern California are prized by commercial fishing crews and conservationists. The area is home to rich ...
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• Oil and Gas Drilling on Allegheny NF – USFS Calls for Comments

  
  Sierra Club Allegheny Group — Authority: 125
  The US Forest Service is calling for comments on a draft Supplementary Environmental Impact Statement (dSEIS) designed to address the problem of oil and gas drilling on the Allegheny NF . The full text of the dSEIS is available here . The topics in the dSEIS include Soil Erosion, Water Quality, Forest Vegetation, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Socialism and the West

  
  High Country News - Most Recent — Authority: 534
  Despite our reflexive fear of the word "socialism," the West was built on subsidized government efforts.
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