conservation

Yellowstone’s Grizzlies are More Dangerous Than Glacier’s

by michael frank on May 14, 2012 · 5 comments

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Yellowstone has seen a nearly 50 percent increase in conflict between bears and humans in the past five years: A new report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service comparing Yellowstone with Glacier shows that in 2011 there were 17 people charged by grizzlies in Glacier, while in Yellowstone 62 were charged — nearly four [...]

In Willamette Valley, the Conservationists are Loggers

by catherine ryan high country news on May 11, 2012 · 0 comments

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Fight to save ponderosa species gains atypical supporters.

Shark Populations Drop 90 Percent Near Inhabited Islands

by steve casimiro on May 10, 2012 · 0 comments

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As if sharks aren’t having a hard enough time these days, what with people hacking their fins for soup and New Zealanders surfing on their dead bodies, a new census of reef sharks in Pacific waters show that populations have crashed by 90 percent near inhabited islands. “We estimate that reef shark numbers have dropped [...]

Federal Agency Kills Pets, Endangered Species, and More

by michael frank on May 8, 2012 · 1 comment

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Over the past decade a federal agency has been responsible for killing more than 50,000 animals using traps, snares, and poison. Even rare and endangered species have been killed. According to some very deep investigative work by the Sacramento Bee, the Department of Wildlife Services, a sub-agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and [...]

Poll: Does Earth Day Matter?

by steve casimiro on April 23, 2012 · 63 comments

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The first Earth Day was a product of its time, 1970. The crush of pollution sweeping across America’s air, land, and water was met by the idealism and activism of the 1960s, and the fight to “save the planet” found its voice in a one-day event that was celebration, protest, and the renewed swearing of [...]

The Man Who Created Earth Day

by tim lydon on April 20, 2012 · 3 comments

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Gaylord Nelson’s Earth Day was a brilliant idea with a lasting effect, but he went on to accomplish even more.

Ruling Against Pack Animals in Wilderness Hurts Outfitters

by michael frank on April 13, 2012 · 6 comments

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Back in January a U.S. District Court Judge in San Francisco said that the National Park Service’s plan for allowing horses into Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks violated the 1964 Wilderness Act. The ruling by judge Richard Seeborg came in a three-year-old lawsuit brought by the High Sierra Hikers Association, which held that the [...]

Massive B.C. Jumbo Resort Gets Green Light, But Signs Point to Red

Last week British Columbia’s provincial government approved a proposed $900 million ski resort in the Purcell Range. It would eventually include more than 20 lifts and be the only four-season ski area in North America, since the lifts would bisect a glacier and serve a huge area of terrain — at 15,000 acres it would be double the size of Whistler-Blackcomb.

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Utah Governor Wants to Take Over Federal Land

More than half of all the land in the state of Utah belongs to every American. That’s right, it’s federal, which means everyone’s taxes go to support it. But in a challenge to more than 100 years of legal precedent, state leaders, including Governor Gary Herbert, have passed legislation saying that the federal government has [...]

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Links We Like, March 27, 2012

ANTI-DOPING AUTHORITIES HAVE A NEW SCOURGE — GREEN TEA. If you’re trying to juice, one tried and true M.O. is testosterone injections, which aid recovery. Ask Floyd Landis, who used the male hormone in the Tour de France. To catch testosterone dopers, authorities look for an unusual ratio of testosterone to a hormone called epitestosterone. [...]

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Shipping Goods Returns to Romantic, Bygone Era

Forget “absolutely, positively, has to be there overnight.” The New Dawn Traders shipping company say you should slow down and savor the journey, not to mention the romance, of slow-motion freight. Imagine the era before we demanded immediate gratification and orange juice in winter, when coffee was new and salt was a spice. Imagine how foreign [...]

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Tribe Wins Right to Kill Eagles, But Wants More

Earlier this month the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a permit to allow the one-time killing of eagles. The permit was issued to the Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming and allows killing up to two of the federally protected birds. Now the tribe says two eagles won’t be enough. [...]

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Court Protects Endangered Hawaiian Sea Turtles

Endangered leatherback and loggerhead sea turtles around Hawaii may have a better chance of recovery after a federal court recently set strict limits on the longline swordfish fishery in the waters around the islands. “Our settlement ensures that sea turtles can swim more freely and safely in Hawaii’s waters,” said Miyoko Sakashita, oceans director at [...]

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Montana Enviros Squabble Over National Forest Project

In Montana’s Lolo National Forest outside Missoula, a project calls for road removal, logging, and burning to thin old growth, remove noxious weeds, and restore the riparian corridor because run-off from old road beds is silting the waterways. And the Colt Summit Project has major environmental backing: The Wilderness Society, National Wildlife Federation, and Montana [...]

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B.C.’s Endemic Caribou Threatened by Wolves, Snowmobiles, and Heli-Skiing

Mountain caribou are unique: They are the only species of deer that move to higher ground in winter, where their long legs enable them to churn through six-feet-deep snow or more to reach winter lichen high up on evergreens. Their biggest threat is wolves — and human beings on snowmobiles. The latter create packed-snow corridors [...]

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