Regional Web Cams

By On November 28, 2015 · Leave a Comment · In Wildlife News

We have made links to web cams in Idaho, Western Montana and Western Wyoming-.

Alpine, ID/WY web cam. Located on the Idaho-Wyoming border looking east to the mouth of the Snake River Canyon.

Big Piney, WY air quality cam. Near Big Piney looking ENE across the desert to the Wind River […]

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Oregon Spotted Frog Threatened by Grazing

By On April 14, 2019 · Leave a Comment · In Endangered Species Act, Forest Service, Grazing and Livestock, Oregon, Public Land Management, Public Lands, Water, Western Watersheds Project, Wildfire

The Oregon spotted frog was originally found throughout wetlands in Oregon and Washington. It is the most aquatic of all native frogs. It is always located near perennial water sources.

Draining of these wetlands, livestock grazing, and dams have significantly reduced its habitat. For instance, 95% of the wetlands in the Willamette Valley and […]

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Grazing Permit Retirement Needed

By On April 12, 2019 · 5 Comments · In B.L.M., California, Cattle, Colorado, Domestic Sheep, Forest Service, Grazing and Livestock, Montana, National Parks, Predator Killing, Public Land Management, Wilderness/Roadless, Wyoming

Across the West,  livestock grazing is one of the most destructive land uses. Some 250 million acres of public lands are grazed by domestic livestock including those administered by the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, as well as national wildlife refuges and even some national park units.

This use is not benign. […]

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Keep Carbon In The Forest

By On April 11, 2019 · 2 Comments · In Climate Change, Forest Service, Friends of the Clearwater, Idaho, Logging, Montana, Public Lands, Wilderness/Roadless

A new report by Friends of the Clearwater documents that 18,000 Idaho roadless acres and 22,000 roadless acres in Montana were logged while presumably protected under the Roadless Rule. While commercial logging is illegal, there is a loophole that permits logging for “forest health.”

However, where the Forest Service sees a “health” problem, ecologists such […]

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They’re Coming to Steal Your Public Lands. Again.

By On April 10, 2019 · 10 Comments · In Energy, Politics, Public Lands

The Recording the Feds Tried to Hide Reveals Parts of the Plan

By Kelly Fuller, Western Watersheds Project

You gotta say one thing for folks who share the views of Karen Budd-Falen and the Bundys: They never miss a chance to push their agenda of turning your public lands over to their […]

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Idaho Wolf Bounty A Step Backwards

On April 10, 2019 By

I sometimes feel like I am going back in time when I visit Idaho. The attitudes of Idaho lawmakers and some citizens seems like a time warp. A step backward to the “good old days” is represented by the Idaho Fish and Game Commission who voted to spend $23,069 to help fund a $1000 wolf […]

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Do you have some interesting wildlife news? April 9, 2019 edition

On April 9, 2019 By

Reader generated wildlife news beginning on April 9, 2019

It is time to create a new page of “Reader Generated Wildlife News.” Do not post copyrighted material.

Here is the link to the “old” wildlife news page that began on Feb. 14, 2019 From there you can access links to the many older pages of wildlife […]

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Oregon Needs More Wilderness

On April 8, 2019 By

In the recent Public Lands legislation that was passed by Congress, Oregon got some new protected landscapes including the Devil’s Staircase Wilderness, 250 miles of new Wild and Scenic River segments on the Rogue and Molalla rivers and measures such as a mining ban on the Chetco River. This legislation was a good but a […]

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Paradise Lost

On April 3, 2019 By

 

I just visited the town of Paradise located on the slopes of the Cascade Range near Chico, California. The Camp Fire burned through Paradise last November (2018) killing 85 people, mostly older residents-plus destroying 14000 homes and another 4800 structures (like commercial buildings). Another 637 structures were “damaged” bringing the total estimate […]

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Political shell game imperils iconic bird of the American West

On April 1, 2019 By

Reprinted from Waco Tribune-Herald March 9, 2019

By Steve Holmer, American Bird Conservancy

Wildlife experts concluded in 2015 that the Greater Sage-Grouse, an iconic bird of the West, did not require listing under the Endangered Species Act, thanks to then-new federal management plans with added conservation requirements. Many conservation groups, including American Bird […]

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Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act Reintroduced

On March 5, 2019 By

The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act or NREPA was once again introduced into Congress by Rep. Carolyn Malony from New York.

NREPA would protect all the remaining roadless lands in the Northern Rockies by designation under the 1964 Wilderness Act. Conservation scientists recognize Wilderness as the “Gold Standard” for land protection.

Iconic wild places that […]

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey