I took this video this summer in the Gallatin National Forest. The quality is a bit sketchy due to Youtube’s policy.
I want to thank all the readers of the Wilderness-Sportsman. I look forward to continuing into the New Year. Our readership has tripled over the last few months, which is pretty remarkable. I look forward to providing more daily updates on conservation news. We will also be adding more Ted Williams articles and more multimedia as well.
Hopefully 2007 will offer up many wilderness bills due to the new Democratic control of congress. With Pombo and his ilk gone, the activities of the House should be more agreeable to conservaton minded public lands users.
“We would have gone to the 9th Circuit Court regardless of the ruling to argue the merits of the case further,” said Larry Campbell, conservation director for Friends of the Bitterroot. “Even if, five years from now, the timber is long gone, we still might have a chance of getting the regional soil standard changed and set a precedent.”
NEW YORK — Gov. George Pataki announced a deal Thursday to protect 51,000 acres of woodland in upstate St. Lawrence County from development, bringing the amount of land preserved statewide during his 12 years in office to 1 million acres.
— To continue advocating for conservation of our natural resources, which to me in the natural world hinges on protecting wildlands and roadless areas, those all-too-few places that produce such vital natural assets as clean air and drinking water, wildlife habitat and somewhere for humans to escapes from the pressure of a world population that only gets bigger and more demanding each year.
JACKSON, Wyo. - As Wyoming and the federal government negotiate the state’s plan for managing wolves after they are delisted, the state is sticking to its guns that excess wolf packs be eliminated.
JACKSON (AP) — Researchers studying plants and trees near Yellowstone National Park’s thermal vents hope to glean an indication of how rising carbon dioxide emissions could affect vegetation worldwide a century from now.