Dirk Kempthorne must have wondered last week why he ever accepted President Bush’s offer to become secretary of the interior. Seven former directors of the National Park Service lambasted a proposal that would allow more than 700 snowmobiles a day in Yellowstone National Park.
April 3, 2007
A Law Not to Be Trifled With
Minnesota: Scientists look for moose clues
GRAND RAPIDS — The moose population in northwestern Minnesota numbered in the thousands as recently as 20 years ago.
Less than 100 remain today in a narrow strip of land from Thief River Falls to the Canadian border.
Supreme court ruling squeezes Bush admin from both sides (video)
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to explain why it has refused to regulate greenhouse gas pollution from cars, putting the Bush administration under pressure from an unusual coalition of environmental groups and leaders of the auto industry to move quickly on global warming.
Colorado: Rocky Mountain National Park elk population drops
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. — Elk at Rocky Mountain National Park may not have to be killed because the harsh winter thinned the area’s population, the park’s superintendent said last week.
Montana: Gallatin National Forest expands food rules for grizzlies
BOZEMAN - Gallatin National Forest food-storage rules for areas frequented by grizzly bears now cover the entire 1.8-million-acre forest.
Protecting people and bears is the goal, said Becki Heath, the forest supervisor.
Federal judge: Bush admin suppressed scientists’ views on forest plan
SEATTLE — The Bush administration illegally suppressed and misrepresented the views of dissenting scientists when it eased logging restrictions under the Northwest Forest Plan, a federal judge has ruled.
In his ruling late Friday, U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez struck down the administration’s change to the forest plan, which governs logging on 24 million acres of federal lands in Washington, Oregon and Northern California