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 Stories About: land stewardship AND politics AND United States
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Compromise, Hell!
Environmentalists have given up too much by not being radical enough |
Wendell Berry |
20 Oct 2004 |
Soapbox |
| Photo: © 2000 David-Lorne Photographic We are destroying our country -- I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a reason for despair unless we decide to continue the destruction. If we decide to continue the destruction, that will not be because we have no other choice. This destruction is not necessary. It is not inevitable, except that ... |
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| Topics: land stewardship, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Cattle Prod
Why we need to push livestock off public lands |
Debra Donahue, Writers on the Range |
25 Feb 2000 |
Soapbox |
| Whatever might be said of the arid West, it "ain't no cow country." That's what Henry Fonda, playing Wyatt Earp, said of Arizona in John Ford's 1946 film My Darling Clementine. That's also the bottom line of a book I've written, The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity. In it, I conclude that where mean annual precipitati ... |
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| Topics: Bureau of Land Management, land stewardship, politics, ranching, United States, wilderness, Wyoming (all these topics) |
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Who Dropped the Green from the GOP?
A Republican berates his party for abandoning the environment |
Karl Hess, Jr. |
11 Jan 2000 |
Soapbox |
| Republicans are handing Democrats a green Y2K. So far, GOP presidential contenders have all but conceded the environmental issue to Al Gore and Bill Bradley. Rather than fight for the conservation mantle that was once the GOP's, they seem content to not ask and not tell when it comes to the nation's land, air, water, and wildlife. At best, Republican environmental polic ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, land stewardship, politics, ranching, United States, West, wildlife (all these topics) |
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