Stars of the Lid with “Daughters of Quiet Minds” from their “And Their Refinement of the Decline” album:
December 29, 2007
Wilderness Sportsman Music Club
Tennessee: Plans for “road to nowhere” in Smoky Mountain NP come to complete stop
Earlier this year the National Park Service said it would recommend against completing the proposed road along the north shore of Fontana Lake in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Safety officer was loaded for bear, but bear got there first
None of the public documents about this incident indicate whether the safety officer was carrying pepper spray for bears. If he was carrying bear spray, he didn’t use it. Pepper spray works when guns, even at close range, don’t for one simple reason. The pepper spray canister shoots a cloud of offending spray that leaves the bear gasping. Guns, even in the hands of calm marksmen, shoot tiny bullets.
Washington: U.S. uses mustangs to patrol northern wilds
OROVILLE, Wash. - Astride sturdy mustangs named Okanogan and Spurs, US Border Patrol agents Darrel Williams and Justin Hefker ride quietly along a ridgeline above the Similkameen River valley.
Illinois: Conservancy applauds congressional bill for Shawnee National Forest
December 27, 2007—The Nature Conservancy today applauded Senator Richard Durbin’s (D-IL) support for the FY’08 Interior Appropriations Bill that will fund the Shawnee National Forest with $850,000. This funding will enable the U.S. Forest Service to acquire land within the purchase boundaries of the forest.
December 28, 2007
Huckabee is Bush III, simply an extension of the anti-conservation, anti-public lands policy
Huckabee goe’s a huntin’ Video Link
“red is fire”
“You vote for me, you live”
It’s clear Romney is the least hamrful of the possible Republican nominees, and would likely be an improvement over Bush.
Huckabee: “Wacko Environmentalists, Who Get Out Of Their Concrete Towers One Weekend A Month And Go Look At A Tree, Believe They Know More About The Care Of The Land Than Farmers. They Want To Tell Us What Deodorant We Can Use And What Kind Of Gas To Put In Our Car.” (Thomas B. Edsall, “Huckabee Pits God Against Greens,” The Washington Post, 3/27/98)
“For decades, Republicans have been pounded by charges that the GOP is anti-environment. Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee may have found the ideal counter-punch: Accuse environmentalists of being anti-God.
Glenn Beck gets owned (video)
As the political season heats up, the Wilderness-Sportsman will be posting some political content not necessarily related to the outdoors.
Statement From the Heritage Forests Campaign on the Bush Administration’s Plan to Remove Protections for Idaho’s Roadless Areas
The Bush administration
today released documents announcing its intention to remove protections for
more than six million acres of roadless areas in the national forests of
Idaho. Idaho’s roadless backcountry areas are some of the nation’s last
intact national forests and this proposal would open the door to their
development by corporate special interests.
New Mexico: Last chance for the Lobo
They say environmentalists are using the wolf as a terrorist tactic to force ranchers off public lands they have controlled for decades through grazing leases. “We’re not saying kill the wolf. We’re saying remove the wolf,” says Catron County manager Bill Aymar. “It’s not going to end well if they don’t remove the wolf.”
Oregon: A welcome review of spotted owl recovery
The Bush administration did a deft job of damage control this week in sparing its spotted owl recovery plan from a chorus of critics calling for scrapping it.
Instead, a team of independent scientists will review it. Their assessment may well determine whether the plan survives and opens the door for increased logging in habitat for the northern spotted owl.