Sounds strange, but IMHO the Lolo and Bitterroot National Forests seem to have an abundance of picture perfect pine trees.
On Saturday morning, hundreds will gather to officially kick off the season with caroling, speeches and good cheer as they watch the cutting of the 100-foot tall picture-perfect subalpine fir that will eventually end up on the U.S. Capitol’s west lawn.
This election will determine whether that remains the case. John McCain has expressed his opposition to the roadless rule, and it’s likely he’d learn from his predecessor’s mistakes and do his legal homework before coming up with a replacement. Obama, by contrast, supports the rule. And a pro-roadless president plus pro-roadless majorities in the House and Senate would mean that the the Roadless Area Conservation Act, which would codify the roadless rule as statutory law, might finally have a decent chance of passing. If it did pass, the nation’s roadless areas would finally achieve something close to permanent protection.
The bill consists of more than 140 separate public land proposals, including 15 wilderness measures that would forever protect wild lands in eight states — including 517,000 acres in Idaho’s Canyonlands, 470,000 acres in California’s Eastern Sierra and San Gabriel Mountains, and 11,700 acres of Lake Superior shoreline in northern Michigan.
Why did the elephant cross the road? It didn’t according to a new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Save the Elephants that says endangered forest elephants are avoiding roadways at all costs. The authors of the study believe that these highly intelligent animals now associate roads with danger – in this case poaching, which is rampant in Central Africa’s Congo Basin.
Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), who is also under investigation by federal officials, offered a whole-hearted, but odd endorsement of Stevens, equating his pursuit of justice with that of disgraced former President Richard Nixon.
Which crowd are you with?
I get the feeling that a lot of wild animals are going to be paying the price this election season. It seems angry hicks feel the need to poach animals as “revenge”.
police say a deer head found in the parking lot of a Barack Obama campaign office is “a very disturbing event” that is being investigated as a threat.
