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All's Quiet on the Rocky Mountain Front
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15 Nov 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| All's Quiet on the Rocky Mountain Front The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an industry appeal of a 1997 U.S. Forest Service decision to ban oil and gas exploration on Montana's Rocky Mountain Front, a 1.8 million-acre swath of land where the plains meet the Rocky Mountains. The area, which is home to grizzlies, wolves, and bighorn sheep, also contains an estimated 2.5 trillion c ... |
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| Topics: energy, Montana, North America, US Forest Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Smoke on the Water, Fire on the Hill
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01 Aug 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Smoke on the Water, Fire on the Hill Four firefighters may have lost their lives last month in Washington state because of the Endangered Species Act, U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis (R-Colo.) charged yesterday. McInnis, chair of the House Resources forests subcommittee, cited unnamed sources who said that fire crews delayed helicopter water drops for three hours or more while dispatchers determined whether water could be ... |
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| Topics: US Forest Service, Washington, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Bright Lights, Big Kitties
The border patrol is threatening two endangered cats in Texas |
Dan Oko |
13 Nov 2000 |
Main Dish |
| The Texas-Mexico border has long been a setting for political skirmishes, a conflict zone where figures hide in shadows hoping to find a loophole in the paramilitary operations that attend the Rio Grande, the river that separates the U.S. from its southern neighbor. This ocelot doesn't have nine lives. Photo: U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife. When the U.S. Immigration and Naturali ... |
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| Topics: Mexico, Texas, US EPA, US Forest Service, US Immigration and Naturalization Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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One for the Roadless
How we could save both forests and jobs |
Mark Matthews, Writers on the Range |
30 Jun 2000 |
Soapbox |
| The "roadless" road show swept the nation last week as U.S. Forest Service officials collected public comment on President Clinton's initiative to prohibit road building in national forests where no roads now exist. What's missing from this picture? Photo: U.S. Forest Service. The policy would affect 43 million acres across the country, including about 5.8 million acres in Mo ... |
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| Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, Idaho, logging, Montana, national forests, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics) |
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Roadless Is More
A conservative argument for Clinton's forest initiative |
John Baden, Joshua Zaffos, Writers on the Range |
28 Apr 2000 |
Soapbox |
| By John Baden and Joshua Zaffos, Writers on the Range 28 Apr 2000 Ed Marston, publisher of High Country News, proclaims in his paper's April 10, 2000 issue: "The war between extractive interests and the environmental movement for control of the Interior West's public lands is drawing to a close. The timber era, the cattle era, the mainstem big-dam era, the wise-use era are ending. An immense landscape is going from one ... |
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| Topics: business, national forests, politics, US Forest Service, West (all these topics) |
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Whither the Wolves?
New Mexico ranchers are howling over reintroduction efforts |
Michael Robinson, Writers on the Range |
02 Mar 2000 |
Soapbox |
| Two years after the first 11 Mexican gray wolves were released to much fanfare in the Apache National Forest of southeastern Arizona, and a year after an additional 22 wolves were freed in 1998, only seven remain in the wild. A lone wolf. Photo: J. & K. Hollingsworth, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The problems the wolves face today are the same as those that ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, New Mexico, politics, ranching, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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