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Drilling fee revenue buying new national forest lands
I have no problem with buying land for conservation purposes, but there’s something not right about allowing drilling just to get revenue for buying land. If society had its head on right, it would...
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Spotted Owl listing could pale in comparison to Sage Grouse
So says the editor who wrote that headline for the Reno, Nev., paper. It’s a headline designed to serve up controversy of its own, likely for a follow-up by the local media folks. In any case, human...
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Bark beetle kill leads to more severe fires, right? Well, maybe
That’s the headline over this High Country News article. All of us who are advocating for an end to the emission of greenhouse gases should read and consider this piece. And that would include...
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Goodbye to the mountain forests of the West?
That would appear to be the new reality, as this piece from the New York Times states in good fashion. It’s no longer a matter of attempting to save and restore the status quo, it’s a matter of helping...
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Wildfires in the West
The area along Interstate 84, the focus of this newspaper article, has been a fire-prone area for as long as I can remember. In fact, covering the occasional range fire outside the town of Gooding,...
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New wave of tree-killing insects on the move in central Idaho
The media downplay, or fail to even mention, the fact that human actions are responsible for launching the infestations such as the one outlined in this article. Between bulldozers, loggers, road...
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Forest fire research questions use of prescribed blazes
The research, examined in this article, says big, natural forest fires actually promote biodiversity.
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Forest fire research questions wisdom of precribed burns
One major case study in this realm is the prescribed burn of earlier this century near the Los Alamos, N.M., National Laboratory that got out of control. Lay people have got to understand, though, that...
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Lethal bark beetles are heading to East
The invasive species has already killed millions of acres of pine forests in the West. This article has a nice-but-telling video.
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No end to legal battle aver Nevada forest road and fish
Journalist Scott Sonner has been writing about conservation and fish and wildlife for a lot of years. I remember seeing his byline on stories moving on the Associated Press wire during my tenure at a...
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