July 4, 2007

The sad state of discourse on the Field and Stream blog

Filed under: Outdoors — Mike @ 5:52 pm

Check out the “leftist faggot” post by Robert a few posts down at their site link.

It’s a shame that the sporting community continues to swallow misinformation by haters and meatheads. I am very surprised that Field and Stream magazine allows this sort of discourse.

Very scary stuff.

You would think a popular magazine like Field and Stream would have bright people running their specific blogs.

Wilderness Sportsman Music Club

Filed under: Outdoors — Mike @ 10:26 am

M83 with “America” from the brilliant “Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts”:

Sorry, no Ted Nugent. I would hope we have better taste than that ;)

The perils of secrecy (the rare wolverine)

Filed under: Outdoors — Mike @ 10:09 am

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Wolverines range over territories as large as 600 square miles, preferring arctic tundra, boreal forests and high mountain regions. “They’re an amazing mountaineer. There seems to be no barrier to movement at all,” says Copeland, who once watched a male wolverine climb 5,000 vertical feet on Mount Cleveland in about 90 minutes. But the domain of wolverines has shrunk as that of humans has grown.

Utah: Campgrounds closed due to bear activity

Filed under: Outdoors — Mike @ 10:08 am

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The Uinta National Forest has closed the Blackhawk campground in Payson Canyon and Tinny Flat campground in Santaquin Canyon due to bear activity in the area.

Nevada: Doolittle talks the talk, but doesn’t walk the walk

Filed under: Outdoors — Mike @ 10:07 am

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“It’s troubling that while Lake Tahoe, last week, was suffering from a wildfire, Doolittle was voting against funding the institutions charged with caring for our National Parks and National Forest,” said Todd Stenhouse, spokesman for Charlie Brown, Doolittle’s democratic challenger during the 2006 election who has announced his intentions to run in 2008.

The $27 billion bill, which passed despite Doolittle’s objection, included a 10 percent budget increase for the U.S. Forest Service, which oversees the majority of the forest fuels reduction efforts in the basin.

Minnesota: Conservation groups file suit over logging on BWCAW boundary

Filed under: Outdoors — Mike @ 10:05 am

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The proposal, known as the Echo Trail project, would include clearcuts, partial cuts and thinning of trees on about 12,000 acres, much of it within a corridor between two large sections of wilderness. Some of the timber would be harvested to the wilderness boundary, according to the lawsuit, which argues that the noise of machinery would disrupt the solitude of campers and the habitat for wildlife.

Arizona: Chitty fire grows to 3,000 acres

Filed under: Outdoors — Mike @ 10:03 am

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Officials say winds pushed the fire south and east overnight, tripling its size. Campers at KP Cienega campground near Highway 191 were under voluntary evacuation orders Tuesday.

Wyoming: Forest Service, Yellowstone enact fire restrictions

Filed under: Outdoors — Mike @ 10:02 am

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JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) - Unusually warm, dry weather has prompted Yellowstone National Park and western Wyoming’s national forests to enact fire restrictions.