Fantastic song from their new album.
August 16, 2008
Music Club: The Hold Steady performing Joke About Jamaica
Montana: Two wolves killed near Hall
Federal trappers have killed two wolves and have permission to kill a third, after wolves killed a calf on private land near Hall.
PBS to air “America’s Best Idea: The National Parks” by Ken Burns
This will likely be the most in-depth national parks documentary ever produced.
12 hours!
it will air the new Ken Burns documentary series, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA, in fall 2009. The 12-hour, six-part documentary series, directed by Burns and co-produced with his longtime colleague, Dayton Duncan, who also wrote the script, is the story of an idea as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical: that the most special places in the nation should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. As such, it follows in the tradition of Burns’s exploration of other American inventions, such as baseball and jazz.
Camera spots rare clouded leopard
The motion-activated remote cameras that captured the remarkable images were located on the northern edge of the Sebangau National Park, Indonesian Borneo.
Toyota donates $800,000 and five vehicles to Yellowstone National Park
California: Bill would protect huge area as wilderness
If California’s Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer gets her way, Congress will vote next month to designate nearly 800,000 acres of California land - an area larger than Rhode Island - as federally protected wilderness.