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Mark His Words New Nature Conservancy prez chats about jumping from Goldman Sachs to the green scene	Amanda Griscom Little	17 Jul 2008	Grist Feature
The stereotypes of biz-begrudging enviros and planet-pillaging business leaders were upended years ago. These days, green groups and corporations team up on everything from preserving land to pushing for climate regulations. Now, in the latest example of cross-pollination, they're even swapping executives. Mark Tercek Photo: Mark Godfrey/The Nature Conservan ...
Topics: biodiversity, business, climate, economy, environmental movement, Nature Conservancy, wilderness, wildlife (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)

All that we have left behind What was it like 430 million years ago	Adam Browning	01 May 2007	Gristmill
The earth, as a living organism, leaves behind breadcrumbs from millenia of development. And beautiful breadcrumbs they are. Check out Frans Lanting's project and fall in love all over again. From Stewart Brand's account of a presentation as a part of the Long Now series: It began on a New Jersey beach. Frans Lanting was photographing horseshoe crabs for a story about how they are being ground up for eel bait and at the same time their blood is used for drug test ...
Topics: climate, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Cattle Star Redactica Bush admin alters science to support expanded grazing on public lands		20 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Cattle Star Redactica Bush admin alters science to support expanded grazing on public lands In developing new proposed regulations for cattle grazing on public lands, the Bush administration intentionally obscured the damage grazing causes, according to two government scientists. Erick Campbell and Bill Brookes, both recently retired from the Bureau of Land Management, determined in an environmental i ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, news, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

A Bouquet of Honey-Rosés Butterfly protector Jordi Honey-Rosés answers readers' questions		28 Jan 2005	InterActivist
Jordi Honey-Rosés, WWF Mexico Program. What do you feel are some of the key elements that individuals and organizations must consider when developing strategies that will both preserve and protect the monarch butterfly, the forests and benefit the landowners and citizens of Mexico? -- Don Davis, Toronto, Ontario, Canada This is a very good question that gets at the heart of the challenge face ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Days of Wine and Honey-Rosés Butterfly protector Jordi Honey-Rosés answers Grist's questions		24 Jan 2005	InterActivist
Jordi Honey-Rosés. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? Currently I serve as program officer in the Mexican Forest Program for World Wildlife Fund, working to protect the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in central Mexico. The pine and fir forest region where I work is the winter habitat for the migratory North American monarch butterfly. These butterflies travel all th ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened The world's cloud forests, which strip moisture from clouds and supply millions of poor people in developing nations with fresh water, are in danger of being wiped out by climate change, claims a report released Monday by the U.N. and the Wor ...
Topics: ... climate, Ecuador, food and agriculture, Indonesia, logging, Malaysia, Mexico, renewable energy, South America, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Orangutangle Orangutans Face Possible Extinction in 20 Years, WWF Says		13 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Orangutangle Orangutans Face Possible Extinction in 20 Years, WWF Says Orangutans may have just two decades left if current trends continue, the World Wildlife Fund warned yesterday. One of the four great ape species, orangutans are rapidly disappearing from their only remaining native habitat on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei. Populations ...
Topics: deforestation, Indonesia, logging, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

NPR: One Thing Considered Pristine Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Opened to Oil Drilling		16 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
NPR: One Thing Considered Pristine Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Opened to Oil Drilling Try as it might, the Bush administration hasn't been able to get its hands on oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Perhaps to make itself feel better, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is forging ahead with plans to permit aggressive oil drilling in large swaths of ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, mining and drilling, politics, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Through Sick and Thin 'Healthy Forests' Becomes Law While Endangered Species Rules Are Relaxed		04 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Through Sick and Thin "Healthy Forests" Becomes Law While Endangered Species Rules Are Relaxed President Bush signed his "Healthy Forests" initiative into law yesterday, a move that, never mind the name, left many environmentalists feeling sick. The Bush administration says the law will prevent fires by increasing the amount of l ...
Topics: logging, National Marine Fisheries Service, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

The Great Green North Massive Agreement Aims to Save Canada's Boreal Forests		01 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
The Great Green North Massive Agreement Aims to Save Canada's Boreal Forests A huge forest-protection initiative will get off the ground in Canada today, aiming to put half of the nation's northern boreal forests -- some 650 million acres -- off-limits to logging and development, and to ensure that activity in the other half is carefully controlled and eco-friendly. A coalition of energy and timber companies, native communiti ...
Topics: logging, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Butterfly Flutter: Bye! Climate Change Could Wipe Out Monarch Butterflies		11 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Butterfly Flutter: Bye! Climate Change Could Wipe Out Monarch Butterflies Monarch butterflies could find themselves in serious trouble within 50 years because of climate change, according to new research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Monarchs make an annual migration of more than 2,000 miles from spots as far north as the U.S.-Canada border to wintering grounds in Mexican fir forest ...
Topics: climate, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Miner Threat Mine in Montana Could Finish Off a Grizzly Population		09 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Miner Threat Mine in Montana Could Finish Off a Grizzly Population A copper and silver mine planned for the edge of a wilderness area in Montana could push a small, local population of grizzly bears toward extinction, environmentalists are warning. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gave the green light for the mine to be built o ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, mining and drilling, Montana, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Malaise-ia		24 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Malaise-ia As many as two-fifths of Southeast Asia's species -- at least half of which are found nowhere else in the world -- could go extinct over the course of this century, according to a study appearing in today's edition of the journal Nature. The vast majority of those extinctions will stem from deforestation, which is expected to affect 74 percent of the region by 2100. The scientists based their findings on a close study ...
Topics: Asia, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

A Green and Pleasant Meadowlands		13 May 2003	Daily Grist
A Green and Pleasant Meadowlands Plans are underway to create a huge urban park in New Jersey that would be 10 times the size of New York City's Central Park -- on land now pocked by old garbage dumps and sewage sites. Unofficially dubbed the Meadowlands Preserve, the new park would encompass 8,400 acres of wetlands and green space, and would include sports fields, ...
Topics: New Jersey, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

For Never Wild		09 May 2003	Daily Grist
For Never Wild A coalition of environmentalists has sued the U.S. Department of the Interior over its recent decision to prevent the Bureau of Land Management from considering any more Western land for wilderness designation. Areas set aside for protection under the 1964 Wilderness Act are protected from motorized recreation and most forms of development. In 1996, however, the state of Utah challenged t ...
Topics: Arizona, United States, Utah, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Chipping Dale		23 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Chipping Dale U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth spoke in San Francisco yesterday in honor of Earth Day, but audience members might not have been very thrilled by what he had to say on behalf of the planet. Bosworth criticized environmentalists for trying to protect forests from logging and road-building projects, claiming that in fact the real threats to forests are fires and invasive species. With t ...
Topics: logging, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

A Bird's-Eye View of Dwindling Open Space	Suzy Becker	24 Mar 2003	Ha.

Topics: wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Hi, Desert		24 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: education, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

White Cloud, Silver Lining		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Idaho, politics, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Raging Kabul		29 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Raging Kabul Twenty years of war in Afghanistan have not only taken an appalling human toll; they've laid waste to the nation's environment, according to a survey just completed by the United Nations Environment Programme. The survey found that more than 50 percent of the forests in three Afghan provinces have been destroyed in the last quarter-century, and w ...
Topics: Afghanistan, energy, land degradation, renewable energy, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Calling in the Reserves		21 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Calling in the Reserves The debate over oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been in the limelight a lot lately -- but what about energy exploitation in the rest of the state? On Friday, the Bush administration released a report on the likely environmental impact of new dril ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, marine life, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, US Geological Survey, US Navy, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Basin and Strange		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Basin and Strange Since Sept. 11, the Bush administration has claimed that strict environmental laws are hindering oil and gas exploration in the West -- thereby compromising national security by forcing ongoing dependence on foreign energy sources. But a new federal study undermines that claim by showing that most oil and gas reserves on Western federal lands co ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, politics, West, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Jungle Fever		15 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Jungle Fever Vines are the hallmark of any self-respecting jungle -- picture Tarzan swinging in from offstage -- but the situation is getting a bit out of control in the Amazon rainforest, where vines are growing so quickly they are choking trees and possibly interfering with the ability of forests to soak up greenhouse gases, according to a study published in today's issue of Nature. An international te ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, rainforests, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Burned		15 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Burned In addition to scorching millions of acres of habitat and killing wildlife, the fires that have raged throughout the western U.S. this summer have taken another toll on the environment -- a financial one. The federal government expects to spend more than $1.5 billion battling wildfires this year, and millions of those dollars will come from sources that would otherwise be used to pa ...
Topics: politics, United States, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

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