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Careful, The Last Hunter Who Crossed Cheney ...
Hunters, anglers fight Bushies' efforts to sell or drill on public lands |
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21 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Careful, The Last Hunter Who Crossed Cheney ... Hunters, anglers fight Bushies' efforts to sell or drill on public lands Bush administration plans to sell off big chunks of public land and open other parcels to drilling are meeting stiff opposition from a traditionally Republican constituency: the hook-and-bullet crowd. Hunters and anglers anxious to protect fish and game are being wooed by ... |
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| Topics: mining and drilling, news, outdoor recreation, West, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Southern Land Do Need You Around, Anyhow
Big conservation deal will protect 218,000 acres of forest in the South |
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30 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Southern Land Do Need You Around, Anyhow Big conservation deal will protect 218,000 acres of forest in the South Conservationists are celebrating the biggest sale of private land for preservation in the South's history. The Nature Conservancy and the Conservation Fund have put up a combined $300 million for 218,000 acres of forestland owned by International Paper in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisian ... |
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| Topics: Nature Conservancy, news, South, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Maybe I'll Be There to Take Your Land
As private forests in U.S. go for sale, enviros are pit against developers |
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21 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Maybe I'll Be There to Take Your Land As private forests in U.S. go for sale, enviros are pit against developers Privately owned forests make up nearly 20 percent of U.S. land, and they're changing hands at a blistering pace. A U.S. Forest Service study predicts that 44 million acres of private forestland will be sold over the next 25 years -- an area twice the size of the state of Maine -- and conservationists are scra ... |
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| Topics: news, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Mapled Crusaders
Community forests help revitalize New England towns |
Wayne Curtis |
23 Feb 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Beyond a set of granite gates on a hillside in Rumford, Maine, a lost city sits amid silver maples and oaks, just across the river from a sprawling paper mill. It's called Strathglass Park, and it's a vestige of an experiment in corporate benevolence. Designed in 1904 by noted architect Cass Gilbert, who later designed the Woolworth Building in Manhattan and the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, t ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, environmental movement, local politics, New England, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Public Land Enemy No. 1
White House wants to auction off 300,000 acres of public land |
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13 Feb 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Public Land Enemy No. 1 White House wants to auction off 300,000 acres of public land The Bush administration has proposed a sell-off of over $1 billon worth of public land over the next five to 10 years. Proceeds from the auctions of more than 300,000 acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management holdings would largely go to rural schools and roads, funding for which has been cut by, ... |
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| Topics: Bureau of Land Management, news, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics) |
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The Royalty Wee
Taxpayers have been getting screwed on oil and gas royalties |
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24 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| The Royalty Wee Taxpayers have been getting screwed on oil and gas royalties A three-month New York Times investigation has uncovered a complex tale of oil and gas royalties, price discrepancies, accounting chicanery, and lax enforcement. But at its heart, it's the same old story: The Bush administration is essentially helping energy companies screw taxpayers. The American people own oil and gas reserves on public ... |
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| Topics: business, energy, news, oil, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Wild to Be Born
Montana's landscape is changing -- will America's be next? |
Rick Bass |
18 Jan 2006 |
Main Dish |
| The governor is a politician of such breathtaking dexterity, ability, and raw, hungry, political instinct that your first thought upon witnessing him -- no matter whether you're a Republican or Democrat -- is likely to be, "When does he explode, and in what manner?" For rarely in American politics has anyone this good been that way indefinitely. Gov. Brian Schweitzer. Brian Schweitzer ha ... |
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| Topics: Montana, politics, wilderness (all these topics) |
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How the West Was Won ... Back
Land-rich regions' residents tell hungry politicians to back off |
Pat Williams |
18 Jan 2006 |
Soapbox |
| It is difficult to recognize change while living through it. However, two recent decisions involving the use of the public's lands signal a historic political and policy transition, particularly here in the Rocky Mountain West. The first of those two is the almost unanimous rejection by Western governors of the Bush administration's multiyear attempt to punch roads into the ... |
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| Topics: politics, West, wilderness (all these topics) |
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A Char, Char Better Thing That I Do
New study finds salvage logging bad for burned forests |
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11 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| A Char, Char Better Thing That I Do New study finds salvage logging bad for burned forests The timber industry and Bush administration officials contend that salvage logging post-wildfire is the quickest path to reforestation, but a new study refutes that claim. Published in Science, it found that logging of burned trees after the 2002 Biscuit fire in Oregon -- the biggest wildfire that year in the U.S. -- killed about 70 percent ... |
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| Topics: logging, news, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Forest Trump
Judge halts more than 140 Northwest timber sales to protect rare species |
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10 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Forest Trump Judge halts more than 140 Northwest timber sales to protect rare species U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman has reinstated the "look before logging" rule on federal lands in the Pacific Northwest -- abolished in 2004 by the Bush administration -- and ordered a halt to 144 timber sales in California, Oregon, and Washington that might imperil about 300 rare animal and plant species. Federa ... |
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| Topics: logging, news, Pacific Northwest, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Stevens and the defense bill
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David Roberts |
19 Dec 2005 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, Big Oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, Ted Stevens, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Off Season
Climate change is messing with the seasons in a Rocky Mountain forest |
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13 Dec 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Off Season Climate change is messing with the seasons in a Rocky Mountain forest Since 1968, researchers have gathered air samples from near the summit of Colorado's Niwot Ridge in the Rocky Mountains, and tracked carbon dioxide levels in the conifer forest below. They've amassed the world's third-longest record of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and that record provides a troubling glimpse of how forests respond to a ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, climate, news, wilderness (all these topics) |
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A Slow-Down Dirty Shame
World's forests disappearing slightly less quickly |
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15 Nov 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| A Slow-Down Dirty Shame World's forests disappearing slightly less quickly Good news! The world's forests are being destroyed at a slightly-slower-if-still-alarming rate. That's the chipper assessment of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's new report on global deforestation. It compared trends in 229 countries over the past five years with data from the 1990s, finding that on average, just over 18 ... |
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| Topics: deforestation, news, United Nations, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Blackmer Magic
Steve Blackmer, founder of the Northern Forest Center, answers readers' questions |
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11 Nov 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Steve Blackmer, founder of the Northern Forest Center. Millions of acres of private forestland in the Northern Forest are being sold -- 7 million acres in the past seven years in Maine alone. Working-forest easements are not protecting the full range of values many people want preserved. One alternative that has been suggested is to create a national park there. How does that fit into the ... |
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| Topics: InterActivist, interview, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Of Tree I Sing
Steve Blackmer, founder of the Northern Forest Center, answers Grist's questions |
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07 Nov 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Steve Blackmer. What work do you do? I'm the president of the Northern Forest Center, based in Concord, N.H. What does your organization do? We work to revitalize the rural economy and communities and conserve the forests of the 30-million-acre Northern Forest region of northernmost New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine -- the largest intact wild area in the Eastern U.S. Unlike the ... |
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| Topics: InterActivist, interview, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Senate votes to keep Arctic Refuge drilling in budget bill
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Grist |
03 Nov 2005 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: Alaska, energy, legislation, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, wilderness (all these topics) |
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We've Got a Beef With That
Federal grazing program loses money hand over hoof |
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01 Nov 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| We've Got a Beef With That Federal grazing program loses money hand over hoof Aren't you just sick of welfare queens sucking off the public teat? We're talking, of course, about Western ranchers who graze their cattle on public land. A new analysis from the Government Accountability Office reveals that 10 federal agencies spent $144 million managing the government's grazing program in the last fiscal year, and got back only $21 ... |
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| Topics: news, ranching, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Acquittin' Time
Judge dismisses murder charges against Mexican peasant ecologist |
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22 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Acquittin' Time Judge dismisses murder charges against Mexican peasant ecologist Mexican forest activist Felipe Arreaga was freed last week after 10 months in jail, acquitted by a judge on murder charges stemming from the 1998 death of rancher and landowner Bernardino Bautista's son. Arreaga is a leader in the peasant-ecologist movement of Mexico's Petatlan Sierra, which gained fame for blocking massive corporate logging ... |
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| Topics: logging, Mexico, news, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Plight My Fire
Spain reprimands public for careless behavior leading to forest fires |
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19 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Plight My Fire Spain reprimands public for careless behavior leading to forest fires Spain has endured about 23,000 forest fires this year, up more than 25 percent from the same time last year. The blazes have destroyed more than 370,000 acres of land and killed 17 citizens -- and more than 90 percent of them have been started by people. The government has long avoided assigning blame to the public, perhaps fearing political fallou ... |
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| Topics: news, Spain, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Tree Enterprise
Nicole Rycroft, recycled-paper pusher, answers readers' questions |
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16 Sep 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Nicole Rycroft, campaigns director for Markets Initiative. Is there a similar organization to Markets Initiative in the U.S.? -- Jerry Broadbent, Bucoda, Wash. There are a number of organizations that work to safeguard endangered forests by shifting U.S. market demand to more sustainable wood and paper products. Green Press Initiative is working with the U.S. book sector and Co-op America with the U. ... |
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| Topics: business, Canada, green living, InterActivist, interview, recycling, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Page of Enlightenment
Nicole Rycroft, forest-friendly book publisher, answers Grist's questions |
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12 Sep 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Nicole Rycroft. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I'm the campaigns director for Markets Initiative. What does your organization do? We work to completely transform heavy paper-consuming industries in Canada (e.g., book, magazine, and newspaper sectors) -- to shift them away from papers originating from ancient or endangered forests and to reduce their overall paper ... |
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| Topics: business, Canada, green living, InterActivist, interview, recycling, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Gorge Push
Northwest's Columbia River Gorge challenged by smog, acid fog |
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26 Aug 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Gorge Push Northwest's Columbia River Gorge challenged by smog, acid fog Hundreds of miles north of California's cow-poot-clogged San Joaquin Valley (yes, that was just an excuse to mention cow poots), the Columbia River Gorge along the border between Oregon and Washington is facing its own battle of the haze, with views of nearby Mount Hood often obscured by smog. Acid rain and fog have become problem ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, news, Oregon, Washington, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Sweet Chile o' Mine
Two Americans take political heat for preserving Chilean wilderness |
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08 Aug 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Sweet Chile o' Mine Two Americans take political heat for preserving Chilean wilderness Douglas Tompkins and his wife Kristine McDivitt own more than 2,000 square miles of Patagonian wilderness, and they're determined to preserve it -- even if some Chileans don't appreciate the conservationist gesture. Their Pumalín Park holding encompasses huge swaths of virgin forest, free-flowing streams, and scenic coastlines -- territory that ... |
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| Topics: Chile, news, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Slitherin' Scholastic
Greens urge boycott of Harry Potter's U.S. publisher |
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15 Jul 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Slitherin' Scholastic Greens urge boycott of Harry Potter's U.S. publisher J. K. Rowling and a coalition of eco-Muggles are giving props to Canadian publisher Raincoast Books for printing Rowling's hotly anticipated sixth novel -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, being released tonight -- entirely on recycled paper. Canadian conservation group Markets Initiative estimates that Raincoast's good gre ... |
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| Topics: Canada, green living, news, recycling, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Cattle Star Redactica
Bush admin alters science to support expanded grazing on public lands |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Bureau of Land Management, news, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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