Dr. Thomas Power shows up to South Dakota with a professional presentation, trying to give some insight to the positive economic effects of intact wildlands, and he gets ripped. These people really should apologize.
Hammock said as he understood it, no mechanized equipment could be used in wilderness areas, even in case of a search effort.
Power disputed that and Hammock then said he felt he was being called a liar.
Following the directions from the GPS device, Krottenthaler turned on Grassy Lake Road, which is closed for the winter. Krottenthaler said he got worried once the road conditions started to deteriorate, but he said the road was too narrow to turn around. Instead he continued, driving about 15 miles through the remote forest before he got stuck.
This is how misinformation gets spread amongst the outdoor community.
“We already have enough protected land. It puts too many restrictions on the land and does not allow our people to work the land or even enjoy the land for recreation,” the commissioner said.
And this hilarious quote:
In a press release from Emerson’s office, she said she will fight the proposal with every breath of her body.
All you can do is laugh at these people. If 68,000 acres of wilderness is “too much” in a 1.5 million acre national forest, you have to wonder if they just wouldn’t be happier undoing what little wilderness they have. Adding 50,000 acres of wilderness to this would create just over 118,000 acres of wilderness - about 1/12th of the total Mark Twain National Forest acreage. All this land would still allow hunting, fishing, hiking and possibly horse use. There’s a real misinformation campaign going on down there.
Before most of us head into the backcountry in Southwest Montana in search of powder and great turns, we count on this familiar voice to inform us on snow pack and mountain conditions.
Minnesota’s ash trees are as good as gone. That’s the sentiment of four Olmsted County officials, who are proposing the county start its own tree farm in preparation for the arrival of the hated Emerald Ash Borer in Minnesota and the subsequent disappearance of the ash
Rep. Chris Cannon just doesn’t get it. Federal lands in Utah do not belong only to Utahns. If they did, they would be state lands. Federal lands - national forests and the deserts, mountains and plains managed by the federal Bureau of Land Management - belong to all Americans.
Really nice article by Randy Beacham.
The young grizzly bear must have seen me first. I was standing on a wooden bridge over the East Fork of Rock Creek in the Cabinet Mountains of northwest Montana, watching the bear disappear into the forest. I felt I had seen a ghost—a fleeting image of one of the last bears from a rare population whose habitat is threatened by what could turn out to be two of the largest hard rock silver and copper mines in North America.
“I don’t think hunters are going to be happy if the forest destroys elk winter range,” Garrity said. “I think they’re doing it because people are afraid of wildfires and the forest is using that fear to get the (logging) cut out.”
In April, a federal judge ruled that the Bush administration illegally suppressed and misrepresented the views of scientists who objected to revising the salmon protections.
Wilderness designation would permanently protect the area, placing it off limits to oil and gas development while continuing to allow vital subsistence uses.