Band of Horses with ” the Great Salt Lake”:
January 8, 2007
Wilderness-Sportsman Music Club
Looking into the North Absaroka wilderness, Shoshone National Forest
One of the last strongholds of the grizzly bear.
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Missouri: Mark Twain National Forest looking for private consessionaires to run campgrounds
OREGON COUNTY – The Mark Twain National Forest is looking for private concessionaires to operate seven National Forest Service campgrounds, including Greer Campground north of Alton.
Montana: Flathead snowmobile plan challenged as threat to grizzlies
KALISPELL - Environmentalists have challenged a collaborative snowmobiling plan for the Flathead National Forest, saying it endangers grizzly bears by allowing late-season sledding.
Oregon: Keep parks affordable
Not everyone can afford the price of admission at Disneyland or Great America. But no one - and especially no Oregonian - should be priced out of Crater Lake National Park, a crown jewel of the national park system.
NRA pressured to resist Bush energy policies
Messing around with our great wild public lands is not a smart idea if you plan for a political future. Hunters are now finding gas wells where once their cherished family hunting grounds existed. Fisherman are now finding silted rivers in once pristine drainages due to erosion from high road densities. They are not making any more wild. It’s up to us to keep it for future generations so they can enjoy the same options we have.
“The NRA stance on the roadless rule is a mistake,” Herring said, echoing the view of many prominent outdoor writers. “There are no more roadless areas being produced.”
Balmy Bliss, or Mayday?
Bill would permanently bar drilling in Alaska refuge
Legislation introduced in the House on Friday would make the oil-rich 1.2 million-acre coastal strip of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge a permanently protected wilderness and end repeated efforts to open the area east of the Prudhoe oil field to energy companies.