How sad can you be to clearcut a property given to you by a conservationist?

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“I’m really optimistic about how the agency is going to acknowlege and honor the importance of science in our rule-making and decision-making,” said Whung.

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In a meeting with reporters in Washington, D.C., and others across the country listening in by telephone, Salazar said he will take a second look at another Bush administration issue, allowing holders of concealed-weapons permits to carry weapons in national parks and monuments.

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The result, they argue, is an environment that is less rich, less resilient and – perhaps – in peril.

“We think this ecosystem is unravelling in the absence of wolves,” said OSU ecologist William Ripple.

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The original $2.25 billion allocation could have created as many as 50,000 jobs across the country, while addressing the maintenance backlog throughout the National Park System, the NPCA reports.

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“People have imagined that if we stopped emitting carbon dioxide, the climate would go back to normal in 100 years, 200 years; that’s not true,” climate researcher Susan Solomon said in a teleconference Monday.

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A new approach to buffalo management that would restore wild buffalo as “valued, native wildlife in the state of Montana” rather than as diseased pests is making its way through the state legislative process.

Surprised? Uh…no.

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The four men are from Indiana. The Park Service did not release their names. They will have to return to Yellowstone in late February and appear before the federal magistrate in Mammoth Hot Springs.

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More than 2,100 new uranium claims, dozens of exploration drilling projects, and moves to open several uranium mines on public lands immediately north and south of Grand Canyon have been started due to a rise in uranium prices since 2005.

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Park spokesman Kyle Patterson said the culling is different from a hunt because it is tightly controlled, is not recreational, and the shooters won`t keep the meat. Patterson said the culling is expected to be done in mid-March.