An excellent winter backcountry guide.

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GNP’s draft EIS of this plan can be found here: Link

An empty 119-car freight train, more than a mile long from end-to-end, was stopped by an avalanche in the John F. Stevens Canyon. As it sat, a second avalanche roared down from the Park, de-railing 15 cars in two places. A third avalanche narrowly missed clean-up crews, and a fourth hit a truck traveling on U.S. Highway 2.

Another story on this controversial subject.

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The whine of snowmobile engines again echoes through the national forest in northern Idaho.

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The primary issues of substance in the forest include:

*introduction of substantial amounts of additional sediment into fisheries streams already seriously impaired and legally protected from further degradation;
* inevitable and officially predicted additional soil damage in an area with existing severe soil damage at a landscape level; and
* failure to protect remaining old-growth habitat and dependent species in an area already severely depleted in old growth.
These existing conditions and inevitable impacts are revealed to anyone who reads the Forest Service’s Environmental Impact Statement.

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Prices for Montana land is now at a premium. Many of the small farms and ranches around Main’s place are being subdivided into 5- and 10-acre ranchettes. Even nearby industrial timberlands are being sold for real estate development.

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Clarke has been heavily criticized by conservationists for opening up sensitive areas of public lands to oil and gas activities. In Wyoming, areas in the Red Desert and the Upper Green River Valley area have been opened to oil and gas drilling under Clarke’s tenure