The new Drive By Truckers album, “Brighter than Creation’s Dark”(due January 22nd) is streaming at the CMT website. It’s very good. Check it out.
January 16, 2008
Wilderness Sportsman Music Club
Yellowstone at risk of hydrothermal explosion, not volcanic
Lisa Morgan, of the U.S. Geological Survey, recently stepped before a gathering of scientists at the Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone, and presented her findings that Tsunami-like waves may have been the catalyst for the world’s largest known hydrothermal explosion, the explosion that created the Mary Bay crater.
Nevada: Park Service says proposed coal fired plant “unacceptable”
The National Park Service says a $3.8 billion, coal-fired power plant “unacceptable” because it would foul air and water and mar scenic views in the Great Basin National Park.
“Like a clean white page, the relatively clear air in the Great Basin can be marred easily,” wrote Paul DePrey, park superintendent.
Michigan: Battle over Bond falls area
North Carolina: Hilton linked to deaths in Pisgah National Forest
Bryants apparently crossed paths with Gary Michael Hilton. Police suspect the 61-year-old drifter encountered them just 20 miles from their home after the Bryants drove out for a hike in Pisgah National Forest at the peak of the fall color season in October.
Hilton linked to another death in Tennessee
help in finding the drivers of a black Dodge Ram pickup — spotted near Dunlap’s abandoned car — and a “unique-looking” Nissan truck, captured on a still image from an ATM machine in Tallahassee where someone used the victim’s debit card on Dec. 2, 3 and 4. Dunlap was last seen Dec. 1.
Montana: Missoulian pro-motorized propaganda article
You have to wonder who dreamed this little gem up. It also completely fails to mention the ugliness of the previous meeting and how these are just “goold ole’ down home folks who don’t want their dirt roads closed off”.
Outdoor Alliance takes strong stand on Idaho, Colorado roadless areas
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ — Seven years ago, citizens from across the nation flooded the U.S. Forest Service with public comments in support of protecting at-risk backcountry roadless areas — the last pristine but unprotected lands in the Forest System. With new plans for roadless area management in Colorado and Idaho up for review, a national coalition of climbers, hikers, paddlers, mountain bikers, and backcountry skiers, is speaking out for systematic protection of roadless areas as a vital component of federal public lands policy.
Bush allows Navy to use deadly sonar in whale areas
A federal judge had issued a preliminary injunction earlier this month requiring the Navy to create a 12-nautical-mile, no-sonar zone along the California coast and to post trained lookouts to watch for marine mammals before and during exercises. Sonar would have to be shut down when mammals are spotted within 2,200 yards, under the order.