Another anti-public lands and anti-public participation ramble from your friends at “Conservationists With Common Sense” up in Ely.
This group opposed the jet ski ban in national parks, opposes roadless areas, and opposes adding more wilderness to the BWCAW.
An attempt by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game to attach radio collars to wolves in the Selway-Bitteroot Wilderness Area in northern Idaho has failed.
Before I could get my license to bow hunt I had to complete a hunter safety/ethics class. The time for an OHV safety/ethics class is now. It would save American’s millions of dollars and also educate (“educate not regulate” is often said by OHVers) riders.
Lawmakers were told Monday that the state’s bills for the 2007 fire season totaled $107 million. Most is being paid by the federal government, but the state is still on the hook for about $43 million after most of the bills have been tallied.
A conservation plan for Jackson Hole sage grouse asks more questions than it answers and calls for more research to determine the best way to preserve local populations, its authors say.
Much easier said than done, as I’m sure park biologists would quickly tell you.
It’s time for biologists and National Park Service managers to hatch a new plan. Perhaps additional gill net crews are needed so that the operation can do more than keep up with the lake trout population. Perhaps there’s a way to destroy lake trout eggs on the lake bottom without harming cutthroat spawning grounds.
Unbelievable. The Ted Nugent crowd probably hopes it’s bought by a “wild” game ranch manager, fenced, and filled with zoo animals from Africa. Spirit of the Wild, indeed.
The state agreed to prohibit construction, road building, utilities, grazing, farming or off-roading on the land. Further, the state agreed that it would sell the tract only if the state and federal parks agencies were not interested and only with permission of the donor.
BILLINGS, Mont. — Eighty-five members of Congress are asking the National Park Service to phase out snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park. They contend the agency is ignoring the increased noise and air pollution that would result from a plan to allow up to 540 of the machines daily.
“It hurts my heart to see it being so hammered,” said Sedona District Ranger Heather Provencio, on a recent visit to this natural gem with the author. “It makes me so very sad to see what people do.”
In this author’s opinion, tasers are a form of torture and should be made illegal.
At about the same time University of Florida student Andrew Meyer was getting tasered by overly heated campus security guards during an appearance by Sen. John Kerry, TASER International Inc. announced that it had received an order from the United States Forest Service for 700 TASER (r) X26 electronic control devices and related accessories.