Such claims are not just inaccurate, they are blatantly deceptive intended only to placate the Committee while avoiding the truth. The Interagency Bison Management Plan has been an abject failure resulting in the unnecessary killing of nearly 2,100 bison since its inception. The bison are needlessly hazed and harassed, shot, and captured and slaughtered because approximately half of the herd have been exposed to Brucella abortus – the bacterium the causes brucellosis.
January 26, 2008
Park Service deceiving world about threats to park Bison
Montana: Helena National Forest plan before public
The new plan, which proposes increasing campground fees on the Helena Forest, closing two rental cabins permanently and shuttering most others in March and April, and removing toilets from most trailheads is identical to another that was presented a year ago, except that the name of the nationwide process involved is different.
Idaho: Mining comapny says it won’t use cyanide
The Canadian company planning a gold mine 60 miles east of Boise is dropping plans to use cyanide to leach gold and silver from rock and says it will reduce the mine’s surface size 95 percent by switching largely to underground mining.
Senators might pass weakened mining law reform
WASHINGTON - Senators indicated Thursday that they will pass a less-sweeping reform of 1872 hardrock mining law than the House did late last year, imposing royalties on new mines but perhaps not on existing ones.
Wyoming: Bridger-Teton National Forest calls drilling meeting
The Bridger-Teton National Forest will hold an open house Monday to get public input on a plan to drill 136 natural gas wells on 17 well pads over 10,000 to 12,000 acres on the Hoback Rim adjacent to the Wyoming Range.
Alaska: Bush administration opens roadless areas of Tongass National Forest to logging, roadbuilding
JUNEAU, Alaska, January 25, 2008 (ENS) - Today, the Bush administration put a “for sale” sign on trees in pristine roadless areas of the Tongass rainforest in Alaska - America’s largest national forest.
This move by Bush officials to reverse roadless area protections parallels two others made recently in national forests located in Idaho and Colorado.
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In this last year of the Bush administration, I suppose we better get used to Friday-afternoon surprises, starting with today’s announcement that the Forest Service is opening 3.4 million acres of Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to logging and mining.