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Ranch Blessing Greens and developer come to agreement in SoCal		08 May 2008	News
Posted at 1:58 PM on 08 May 2008 A long-running disagreement over what should be done with the largest swath of privately owned wilderness in southern California has been settled by a deal between green groups and a developer. Ninety percent of the 270,000-acre Tejon Ranch will be conserved, while 26,000 homes will be permitted on the remaining 10 percent. The Center for Biological Diversity, which was not involved in the truce, exp ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, endangered species, grassroots activism, news, NRDC, Sierra Club, sprawl, wilderness (all these topics)

Aspen Env't Forum: 'Soccer moms are the enemy of biological education' E.O. Wilson calls for kids to be set free outside, scripted activities be damned	Lisa Hymas	01 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: education, green living, oceans, parenting, wilderness (all these topics)

Ride, Valley, Ride Off-road vehicle use has surged in Western wilderness areas		31 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 11:42 AM on 31 Dec 2007 Motorized outdoor enthusiasts are converging in increasing numbers on Western public lands -- not only in areas marked for such outdoor enthusiasm, but in wilderness areas where rules against off-roading are nearly impossible to enforce. Registration of all-terrain vehicles and motorbikes in four Western states tripled from 1998 to 2006. The surge is traceable to the booming outdoor-r ...
Topics: green living, news, sports, wilderness (all these topics)

Leave 'Er, Man Lieberman introduces bill to designate Arctic Refuge as wilderness		07 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 12:16 PM on 07 Nov 2007 Part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would be designated as wilderness under legislation introduced today by Sen. Joe Lieberman and 25 colleagues. Wilderness designation for the 1.5-million-acre coastal plains region would rebuff seemingly nonstop attempts to drill for oil and gas there. Says Lieberman in a stroke of analogy genius, "America's strength is not in our oil ...
Topics: Arctic Refuge, energy, legislation, news, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Big balls, bigger wall Chertoff lies, wildlife dies	Glenn Hurowitz	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: endangered species, international politics, jackassery, legislation, Mexico, national security, politics, Texas, wilderness (all these topics)

Prairie Chicken Why environmental groups have been slow to fight the border wall	Glenn Hurowitz	16 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
The border fence under construction in Arizona. Photo: Defenders of Wildlife The bobcat turned, looked at me, and jumped into the mesquite brush. It was the first day of a three-day visit to South Texas, and I was exploring the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge along the Rio Grande River. Seeing the bobcat was a treat for me -- but the kind of treat that could become increasingly rare ...
Topics: environmental movement, Mexico, politics, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Oxymoron of the day: Glamorous camping aka 'glamping'	Sarah van Schagen	21 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: green living, wilderness (all these topics)

Climb every submerged mountain Backpacker's global warming issue	Sarah van Schagen	20 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, green living, sports, wilderness (all these topics)

All that we have left behind What was it like 430 million years ago	Adam Browning	01 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

No More Dicking Around House approves long-delayed Wild Sky Wilderness bill		19 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
No More Dicking Around House approves long-delayed Wild Sky Wilderness bill After five years of delay, the House has passed a bill creating a 167-square-mile Wild Sky Wilderness area in northern Washington state. The bill had been approved by the Senate three times in recent years, but stalled out each time in the Republican-led House, with former California Rep. Richard P ...
Topics: legislation, news, politics, US House of Representatives, Washington, wilderness (all these topics)

The Problem of the Root On tree planting	Umbra Fisk	22 Jan 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My wife recently heard a program on NPR where an expert on global warming said that planting trees in the Northern Hemisphere plays a negligible role in fighting global warming, while playing a significant role in the Southern Hemisphere. Do you have any light to shed on this? Randy Cunningham, Confused Tree-Hugger Cleveland, Ohio Dearest Randy, Tree hugging has no proven deleterious effect on climate change. What yo ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, climate, wilderness (all these topics)

Embrace Me, You Irreplaceable You Unions, conservationists join forces to protect sporting rights		17 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Embrace Me, You Irreplaceable You Unions, conservationists join forces to protect sporting rights Need more proof that green is gaining steam? Voila: a brand-new partnership between a Republican-leaning conservation group and 20 labor unions that represent nearly 5 million people. Worried that hunters and anglers are being barred from prime playgrounds, the Union Sportsmen's Alliance will push for increased federal con ...
Topics: news, outdoor recreation, wilderness (all these topics)

What?! I've Always Been a Fan of Wilderness! Bush protects wildlands in New Mexico, New England		15 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
What?! I've Always Been a Fan of Wilderness! Bush protects wildlands in New Mexico, New England Back in 2004, the Bush administration tried to clear the way for energy drilling next to the nation's largest Boy Scout camp in Valle Vidal, N.M. The drilling never commenced, in large part thanks to resistance from ranchers, hunters, environmentalists, 17 local governments, three chambers of commerce, all of the state ...
Topics: New England, New Mexico, news, wilderness (all these topics)

Forgive and Let Live Debt-for-nature swap will protect rainforests in Guatemala		03 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Forgive and Let Live Debt-for-nature swap will protect rainforests in Guatemala About 20 percent of Guatemala's debt to the United States will be forgiven in exchange for forest conservation efforts in the Central American nation, officials announced yesterday. It's the largest debt-for-nature swap carried out under the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998, which allows debt owed to the U.S. to be inve ...
Topics: Central America, news, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Some States Get All the Luck California wilderness bill passes Congress, Vermont wilderness bill doesn't		02 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Some States Get All the Luck California wilderness bill passes Congress, Vermont wilderness bill doesn't Just before adjourning for election season on Friday, Congress OK'd a bill to designate 273,000 acres in Northern California as wilderness, including a long stretch of stunning coastal land, and President Bush is expected to sign it into law. Conservationists and their congressional allies had been aiming to prote ...
Topics: California, news, Vermont, wilderness (all these topics)

Can't See the Forest for the Bling Northern forests worth up to $250 billion a year, research says		28 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Can't See the Forest for the Bling Northern forests worth up to $250 billion a year, research says You thought they were just standing there, but forests in Russia, Canada, and other northern nations provide services worth up to $250 billion a year, say Canadian researchers. Water filtration, erosion control, habitat provision, greenhouse-gas absorption, and tourist attraction are highly lucrative pursuits that ...
Topics: business, Canada, news, Russia, wilderness (all these topics)

A Breyer Power Federal judge rejects Forest Service plan to log in national monument		23 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
A Breyer Power Federal judge rejects Forest Service plan to log in national monument A federal judge put the smackdown yesterday on a U.S. Forest Service plan to allow increased logging in California's Giant Sequoia National Monument, home to about two-thirds of the world's largest trees. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said the USFS forest management plan lacked " ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, news, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Where There's Smoke, There's Ire War igniting forest fires in northern Israel		08 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Where There's Smoke, There's Ire War igniting forest fires in northern Israel Like America's, Israel's forests and grasslands are suffering an unusual number of fires this season. But the problem isn't so much a heat wave as, um, rocket attacks. Since the mid-July start of the Israel-Lebanon conflict, an average of around 50 fires a day have ignited in the northern region of Israel. Though many are small and eventually burn themse ...
Topics: Israel, news, wilderness (all these topics)

Reps Gone Wild House approves new wilderness areas in California, Oregon, and Idaho		25 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Reps Gone Wild House approves new wilderness areas in California, Oregon, and Idaho The U.S. House yesterday unanimously approved bills that would create over 1,000 square miles of new wilderness areas and protect 47 miles of rivers in California, Oregon, and Idaho. A bill to ban drilling in New Mexico's Valle Vidal also passed. All of the bills are compromises hammered out over several years, inv ...
Topics: California, Idaho, New Mexico, news, Oregon, wilderness (all these topics)

Hap, Hap, Hooray! Snowmobilers and enviros craft compromise plan for wilderness in California		11 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Hap, Hap, Hooray! Snowmobilers and enviros craft compromise plan for wilderness in California A deal to set aside thousands of acres of wilderness near Yosemite National Park has been crafted by an odd alliance of snowmobilers, greens, and local officials. By agreeing to stay off 40,000 acres of public land, snowmobilers would receive unfettered winter access to 11,000 acres nearby. " ...
Topics: California, national parks, news, outdoor recreation, wilderness (all these topics)

That Thing Utah Do! Bill to sell federal land in Utah could set off cascade of land sales		07 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
That Thing Utah Do! Bill to sell federal land in Utah could set off cascade of land sales In the American West, many of the fastest-growing regions contain the most federally owned land, which limits expansion. This puts developers, local officials, and the vacation-home set in conflict with the public interest, and ... well, we hardly need to finish that sentence, right? Some members of Congress from Western st ...
Topics: news, placemaking, Utah, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Cork Screwed Drop in cork demand could endanger Mediterranean forests		19 May 2006	Daily Grist
Cork Screwed Drop in cork demand could endanger Mediterranean forests What wine goes best with endangered forest? Perhaps a nice pinot gris? Mediterranean cork-oak forests provide 15 billion cork stoppers a year to the wine industry -- a sustainable enterprise, as cork is harvested from live trees rather than dead ones -- but plastic and screw-top closures are growing in popularity. A drop in the cork ...
Topics: Mediterranean, news, wilderness, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

This Land Is Poorly Managed Land BLM accused of not preserving cultural sites		17 May 2006	Daily Grist
This Land Is Poorly Managed Land BLM accused of not preserving cultural sites Hundreds of millions of acres of public lands are going unprotected, with their historical artifacts undocumented, as the Bush administration focuses Bureau of Land Management funds and staffing resources on energy development in the West, according to a new report from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Under a feder ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, news, West, wilderness (all these topics)

A Hard Sell Bush admin land sell-off plan may be DOA		12 May 2006	Daily Grist
A Hard Sell Bush admin land sell-off plan may be DOA The future looks dim for the Bush administration's unpopular proposal to sell off 300,000 acres of public land to fund rural schools. A House subcommittee has excluded the proposal from a spending bill; it will be considered by other committees, but has no enthusiastic backers in Congress. Rural schools and roads have traditionally been funded by the logging industry, but with ...
Topics: news, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Dirk du Soleil Interior nominee Kempthorne backs away from plan to sell U.S. forests		05 May 2006	Daily Grist
Dirk du Soleil Interior nominee Kempthorne backs away from plan to sell U.S. forests Senate confirmation hearings began yesterday for Interior Secretary nominee Dirk Kempthorne, and oh, the fun that was had. One hot topic was the Bush administration's proposal to fund rural schools by selling thousands of acres of public land; the Dirkster, who supported sale of public lands when he ...
Topics: Department of Interior, mining and drilling, news, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

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