Very interesting location. I usually spend the night in this area in my car when heading out west (there are several rest areas to choose from). It’s in west central Minnesota on I94(about 50 miles from Fargo)and nowhere near the BWCAW or the Chippewa National Forest.
Seifert can’t confirm it was a cougar, but says the injuries suggest a very large animal attacked the horse, and that the injuries are consistent with the way cougars attack prey.
Conservationists have banded together and are demanding the provincial government take swift action to help the Alberta grizzly bear population recover.
His supporters believe that an interview Obama gave Field and Stream magazine, which was published in September, bodes well for a Thompson nomination. In the interview, Obama stated, “I think that having a head of the Department of Interior who doesn’t understand hunting and fishing would be a problem. And so my suspicion is that whoever heads up the Department of Interior is probably going to be a sportsman or sportswoman.”
Alternatively, the OHV Task Force recommended the development of a provincewide trail system for ATVs on other Crown lands to compensate for their exclusion from wilderness areas and other sensitive ecosystems, and to give them extensive opportunities to enjoy their activities in less sensitive areas.
Another good article by Bill Schneider.
Now we know the truth. The wild proliferation of new and increased recreation fees has contributed to a similar if not steeper decline in the public use of public forests. With this aggressive, if not abusive, fee-charging policy, Forest Service bosses have done a stellar job of discouraging people from using their own land, the national forests
It’s actually pretty darn good, even after 17 years.
Jenna spun around and tried to run away, but she tripped onto the hillside. By the time she looked up, the bear had her dad. She grabbed the bear spray that had been jostled to the ground, but the safety clip kept it from working. When she looked up again, the bear was coming toward her.
The man was on the ground, assisting a helicopter removing shakes from a forest. “It was over within a minute and a half, if not less,” Olsen said of the attack.
With barely 60 days to go until Bush hands over to Barack Obama, his White House is working methodically to weaken or reverse an array of regulations that protect America’s wilderness from logging or mining operations, and compel factory farms to clean up dangerous waste.
California has developed more technical expertise in controlling planet-heating emissions than any U.S. state in the two years since it passed a law requiring its emissions to fall by about 15% in the next 12 years. And although the federal government has stalled in adopting any economy-wide climate legislation, the Golden State has forged ahead with renewable energy standards, automobile tailpipe regulations, efficiency incentives and forest carbon protocols.
