Fantastic new piece on NBC.
I know this is not a popular topic, but it’s a reality many people (including good conservationists) seem to ignore. Remember a thing called a tent? It works great and you have all the best real estate of your choosing(and free in many instances).
There is no such thing as a “benign” pesticide. Any chemical that kills a living creature will in some way or another have a side effect.
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Three pesticides commonly used on farms and orchards throughout the West are jeopardizing the survival of Pacific salmon, the federal agency in charge of saving the fish from extinction has found.
The men yelled obscenities, fired their guns and even entered their campsite and rummaged through their tent, Koller noted.
“They talked about killing my father and sodomizing him and my brother,’’ Koller said. “I thought I was going to die out there. I’m still haunted by it… I want the nightmares to go away.’’
Republicans and Democrats, business leaders and environmentalists, hunters and vegetarians gathered at an outdoor retailer to celebrate the Wild Sky Wilderness in the north Cascades. Earlier this year, legislation designating the 106,000-acre Wild Sky was passed by a Democratic Congress and signed into law by a Republican president.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - In the wake of last week’s fatal crash of a firefighting helicopter, some environmentalists are asking why the U.S. Forest Service has been sending crews in to battle backcountry blazes that pose no obvious threat to lives or property.
Firefighters have responded to over 35 fire starts from both lightening and human activity, but so far, initial attack efforts have been successful and most fires have been contained.
Some spent the night, and others waited all day. I think they’re all just happy the kids were found OK,” said Mary Lynne Newell, whose son was among the missing.