Man uses himself to block bison slaughter trap near Yellowstone.
WEST YELLOWSTONE, MONTANA – An unidentified man has made it impossible for Montana Department of Livestock agents to capture bison in the recently erected Horse Butte bison trap. The man is perched upon a platform suspended from the top of a pair of poles that are standing on end and anchored to the walls of the trap. A large banner hanging from the platform reads, “I called, I wrote, and no response…This is my response.”
If you haven’t camped or hiked or visited a national park in the past few years, you may be a videophiliac. Worse yet, if you have children, you may be raising them to be videophiliacs as well, according to the authors of a recent study published by the National Academy of the Sciences.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, found that the number of sworn officers on the force shrank to 576 at the end of January, the lowest level since 1987 and a decline of 49 since 2001.
At the edge of a river known as Taylor Slough, a gray-and-brown cormorant spreads its wide wings to dry after a quick dip. Within a few dozen yards are anhingas and ibises, blue and green herons — birds I wouldn’t have recognized a couple of days ago. Occasionally one dips its head beneath the water on a hunting foray.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Park rangers, retirees and conservation groups are protesting a plan by the Interior Department to reconsider regulations restricting loaded guns in national parks.
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Gary Louris (formerly of the alt.country pioneers the Jayhawks) has released a fine new album titled “Vagabonds”. You can hear cuts from the album at his website. Standout tracks are “She Only Calls Me On Sundays” and “Vagabonds”.
The national forest budget has been cut by 1/3rd since 2001.
Total Forest Service spending in the new budget is just over $4 billion. The United States spends more than that every three days in Iraq.
In fact the 8 percent budget cut proposed by Bush could be made up with less than 5 hours of Iraq war spending.
Finally, the Bush administration takes action on the national parks.
