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April 12, 2008
Looking into the Slough Valley
Wilderness Sportsman Music Club
M83 with their new song “Graveyard Girl” from their new album “Saturdays=Youth” (out next Tuesday the 15th). It’s an amazing record, and said to be “the sound of growing up in the 80’s”. Definitely worth having in your collection.
Forest Service bid to limit wildlife protections met with lawsuit
SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 11, 2008 (ENS) - A coalition of 14 conservation groups filed suit today in federal court to block the U.S. Forest Service from implementing a new rule that would remove protections for fish, wildlife, and other resources throughout the 192-million acre National Forest System.
Issued earlier this month, the rule represents the Forest Service’s third attempt to weaken the nationwide regulations. The two previous attempts were rejected by the courts.
Indian chief to lead Yellowstone bison ceremony
“These buffalo that lost their lives in Yellowstone did not die by natural law, nor were their spirits honored with ceremony,” Looking Horse wrote. “This is why we must go there to perform a ceremony of honor for those that lost their lives by the misunderstanding of humankind and pray to Wakan Tankan (Great Spirit) for pity of how gifts were unappreciated.
Study: Lower 48 forests hold enormous carbon reserves
Across the U.S., public and protected forests generally store the most carbon. The analysis also cautions that existing carbon measurement tools have significant limitations due to gaps in the underlying data: old growth forests, in particular, may be undervalued.
A new federal wilderness system is born
In a vote that the Sierra Club called a “victory for America’s public lands,” the House of Representatives approved the National Landscape Conservation System Act by a nearly 2-to-1 margin Thursday.
The Wilderness Society, which together with a coalition of 70 conservation groups championed the bill, describes the bill as a way to make permanent land protection covenants agreed to in the Clinton Administration:
Faith Based groups ask House to pass new protection plan.
Idaho: Senator again introduces wilderness bill
Wyoming: Cubin criticizes bill to recognize wilderness study areas
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) Rep. Barbara Cubin is criticizing legislation to formally recognize wilderness study areas and other specially designated public lands across the West.
Michigan: Sylvania Wilderness fits
We all have our own ideas about where the Northwoods begins, but how do you define true wilderness? Is it simply the lack of condo developments? A disappearance of road signs? The suspicion that more critters inhabit an area than people? Many trees, no cows?