The Wilderness Sportsman

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“On a map these look like clean, sterile lines going from point A to point B,” said Liz Thomas with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. “You get on the ground, it’s not like that. There are canyons in the way, rivers, pueblo sites, national parks, national monuments, people’s favorite hiking and hunting areas.”

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Standing next to Jenny Lake, park ranger Diane McGee tells students about the plants and animals at Grand Teton National Park. “Very soon, we will have snow falling on the ground,” she says. “Winters here are very long. We get up to 200 inches of snow here on the valley floor.”

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He has travelled the country with a slide show and talk in support of The Last Wild Wolves, a book of photographs and text he produced to reinvigorate his campaign to protect the Great Bear Rainforest.

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“Public support has been overwhelming,” said Stephenson, as evident by the organization’s gathering of more than 450 signatures on a petition. “This is an opportunity to preserve one of the precious areas our county has … we owe this to future generations.”

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The Cow Fly Timber Sale on 242 acres in the Gravely Mountains violates a forest plan’s requirements for protection of elk habitat and old-growth trees, say the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and the Native Ecosystems Council.

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There is some confusion about cross-country use of ATVs. The simple rule is cross-country use is limited to designated areas. The same rule may not apply to snowmobiles, especially on state land.

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U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill ruled earlier this week that the risk of losing genetic diversity in native populations of bighorn herds in western Idaho outweighed the financial loss of $75,600 to the sheep rancher, Guy Carlson of the Riggins, Idaho-based, Carlson Company. The group had planned to return the domestic sheep to the grazing allotment Thursday.