This group is way off the deep end and pretty much dislikes any and all acts of conservation. I’m not surprised they are standing behind Senator Craig. I’m sure they are giving Craig and his staff full support……
Cushman called for a boycott of the airport for at least the next year, and he noted his group has led successful boycotts in the past. Craig’s views are solidly in line with ALRA, which seeks to limit the government’s attempts to create public lands and considers itself a defender of “property rights.” Critics say ALRA is an anti-environmental group.
The felony assault charge was originally filed following a lengthy U.S. Forest Service investigation into a July 2006 incident between hikers and a group of motorcyclists on a trail closed to motorized recreation in the proposed Great Burn Wilderness on the Montana-Idaho border west of Missoula.
Fortunately, there are bright spots in the gloom. Arizonans are blessed with thousands of square miles of public land. But habitat that qualifies as real wilderness - that is, roadless land still largely unchanged by man - is disappearing rapidly, thanks to both sprawl and wildcat trails created by selfish ATV and 4×4 drivers. It is imperative that we preserve what is left, as soon as possible.
Thursday’s public meeting at Fuller Lodge drew a standing-room-only crowd to hear the forest service’s proposal for the Santa Fe National Forest. Hikers, bikers, hunters, ATV enthusiasts, dirt bikers, horse-owners and property owners will all be affected by the proposed closure of more than 6,000 miles of forest roads and trails to motorized vehicles.
The Moonlight Fire, which broke out in Plumas National Forest near Greenville on Monday, had grown to 28,000 acres and was about 10 percent contained Thursday afternoon, said Mark Beaulieu, spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service.
After more than three years of study, the Government Accountability Office, an arm of Congress, harshly faulted the Bush administration for doing little to deal with the far-reaching effects of climate change rapidly taking place in national parks, forests, marine sanctuaries and other federal lands and waters — almost 30 percent of the United States.
The Bush administration has again been criticised for failing to tackle climate change, which is rapidly transforming America’s national parks, forests and marine sanctuaries.
Wildfires are flaring in Alaska, the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. In Glacier National Park, where glacier numbers have fallen from 150 to 26 since 1850, the habitat of bighorn sheep, mountain goats and grizzly bears is vanishing
Only in the northern Canadian Arctic islands and the west coast of Greenland are any of the world’s 16,000 polar bears expected to survive through the end of the century, said the U.S. Geological Survey, which is the scientific arm of the Interior Department.