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WASHINGTON – Eleven states on Tuesday sued the Environmental Protection Agency in an effort to overturn what Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal called weak ozone standards.

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The bison are on a former ranch whose owners asked the state to leave the animals alone. That would go against a program that calls for killing or removing bison that migrate outside Yellowstone to prevent the spread of disease to livestock.

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“Warming is very likely to continue in the United States during the next 25 to 50 years, regardless of reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, due to emissions that have already occurred,” the report said.

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The MOU outlined what role Stanley Energy would play in the Forest Service’s new SEIS, with the company footing the bill estimated to run $350,000 to $500,000. Its cancellation means Stanley no longer has a seat at the table during the new SEIS process.

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Off-highway vehicle users can be their own worst enemies. If irresponsible OHV riders would mend their ways, stay out of sensitive areas and use some common sense instead of riding roughshod over public land, federal land-management agencies wouldn’t have to get heavy-handed with restrictions.

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It opens up opportunities through binoculars to see grizzlies and mountain goats on nearby mountains, as well as ducks and other waterfowl on the lakes, she said

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But with only a few hundred moose scattered across the Adirondack state park, which comprises private and public lands in an area roughly the size of Vermont, locating moose scat is far easier than locating the actual mammals, despite their hulking size. (Bull moose can weigh up to 1,400 pounds and eat 40 to 60 pounds of vegetation a day.)

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Ron Wyden: “Seems to me, if we can get national recognition of the Badlands, that’ll be a big shot in the arm for recreation. And quality of life is a big driver of economic success in central Oregon, and that’s why I’m going to work hard to promote it.”

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Check out this plot hatched deep in the bowels of the Interior Department: slash forest fire prevention budgets, then propose that the shortfalls in budgets be made up by selling off the timber that would have otherwise had to have been protected from fire. That’s a downright clever plan for this crowd.