Alela Diane singing “The Rifle” from her excellent album “The Pirate’s Gospel”:
June 30, 2007
Wilderness Sportsman Music Club
Montana: Hungry bears close several Glacier National Park trails
As summer heats up, so does bear activity and Glacier National Park is seeing some popular trails closed due to bear activity or from bears eating carcasses of dead animals.
Study: Wilderness almost non-existent on planet Earth
Yet some “wise use” groups claim that there is a “lack of balance” in terms of motorized access. Simply not true. The vast majority of the world and the U.S. is roaded and motorized.
As of 1995, only 17 per cent of the world’s land area remained truly wild, with no human populations, crops, road access or night-time light detectable by satellite, the authors reported
Minnesota: Oberstar includes conservation projects in national spending bill
The Interior and Environmental Appropriations Bill funds the nation’s public parks, lands and environmental program; the Minnesota appropriations in the bill were included at the request of U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar.
Utah: Unauthorized forest paths
Montana: Firefighters boost containment on Madison Arm fire
WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. - Firefighters gained ground Friday on a 3,500-acre wildfire just north of this resort town and national park gateway, increasing containment to an estimated 20 percent.
Surprise: Lake Tahoe fire blamed on campfire
It seems that 90% of the time, “fire hawks” (people who sit around large campfires all day) are involved in these situations. This was an illegal campfire created during a “no fire” ban.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - A campfire caused the wildfire that burned more than 200 homes just south of Lake Tahoe, the U.S. Forest Service said on Friday.
June 29, 2007
West Virginia: Berwind sells land to National Park Service
Colorado: Violent crime rare on public land
National parks and forests in Colorado are generally safe, with few violent crimes occurring there, according to local sheriff offices.
North Carolina: USFS mismanagement of ORV’s spurs lawsuit threat
The U.S. Forest Service is violating multiple federal and state laws - and its own regulations - in failing to prevent mud from severely eroded off-road vehicle trails from polluting streams in the Tellico River watershed in the Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina and Cherokee National Forest in Tennessee, sportsmen and conservation groups said in a letter today to the agency. Muddy runoff in the Tellico watershed is devastating one of the last, best strongholds for native brook trout.