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Reviving Rainforests: Your Help is Needed

November 21, 2009

Posted by Jacob Scherr

Tags:
biogems, climatechange, forests, globalwarming, wilderness, wildlife, wildplaces

Protecting and restoring the world's rainforests is critical to preserve biodiversity.  Tropical forests are teeming with life - covering just about 6% of the earth's surface they are home to between half and three fourth of all plant and...continued

Does Agency Cynicism Serve Wolves, Science, or the Public Interest?

November 20, 2009

Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
wolf, wolfmanagement, wolves, yellowstonewolfdelisting, yellowstonewolves

A recent meeting of the Montana Chapter of the Society of Conservation Biology showcased talks by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Western Gray Wolf Recovery Coordinator, Ed Bangs, and the Montana Wolf Project Manager, Carolyn Sime. What struck...continued

Wisconsin vs. Fish Ebola: New rules protect the Great Lakes ecosystem

November 20, 2009

Posted by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
albany, ballastwater, coastguard, doorcounty, EPA, greatlakes, lakemichigan, newyork, newyorkattorneygeneral, shipping, vessels, VHS, viralhemorrhagicsepticemia, wisconsin, wisconsin DNR

Door County, Wisconsin is famous for their fish boils. We are talking about massive kettles of Lake Michigan white fish with potatoes, onions and the perfect spices boiling in giant bonfires on the beach. Yum, it's a great tradition that...continued

Come to Montana and Poach a Wolf!

November 19, 2009

Posted by Matt Skoglund in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
biogems, endangeredspecies, montanawolfhunt, wolf, wolfhunt, wolfpoaching, wolves, yellowstone, yellowstonenationalpark

               You could pay an outfitter in the Northern Rockies $3,600 or $2,900 for a guided hunt to kill one wolf, or you could come to Montana and illegally poach two wolves for $1,135.  And you don't need to worry...continued

Interior Department Comes Out Strong (Rhetorically) on Mountaintop Removal

November 19, 2009

Posted by Rob Perks in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
appalachia, coalmining, dirtycoal, EPA, fill, fillrule, interior, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, salazar

The Interior Department announced yesterday that it is taking immediate steps to strengthen oversight of state-approved surface coal mining operations -- including mountaintop removal -- and to impose tighter restrictions on the dumping of mining waste in steams. In a statement issued by the agency, Assistant Interior...continued

Yellowstone grizzly prospects improve as relisting ruling is upheld

November 18, 2009

Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
endangeredspeciesact, ESA, esagrizzlyprotections, grizzlydelisting, yellowstonegrizzlies, yellowstonegrizzlydelisting, yellowstonegrizzlyrelisting

Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy wisely denied the Department of Justice's efforts to reverse his September 21st decision that restored endangered species protections to the Yellowstone grizzly bear population. The Yellowstone grizzly is still at risk: global warming poses...continued

Mountains, Mining and Mayflies

November 16, 2009

Posted by Rob Perks in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
appalachia, coalmining, dirtycoal, EPA, mayflies, mayfly, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR

When I started my environmental career working as a grassroots coordinator for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Virginia, one of my favorite parts of the job involved occasionally accompanying CBF educators on canoe trips to teach students and teachers the...continued

Pull the Plug on the Electric Asian Carp Fence

November 12, 2009

Posted by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
armycorps, asiancarp, chicago, chicagodiversion, chicagoriver, greatlakes, invasivespecies, lakemichigan

Poison has been used to repel invading armies throughout history.  And it's just about to happen again outside Chicago. In this case, the invading army doesn't come in the form of armed troops...  actually, they are fish.  But their threat...continued

The Water Package – New Solutions, not “Back to the Future.”

November 12, 2009

Posted by Barry Nelson in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
agriculture, baydelta, BDCP, california, californiawater, delta, deltasalmon, salmon, sanjoaquinsacramentodelta, waterconservation, waterlegislation, waterreform

Much of the press coverage of Governor Schwarzenegger’s bill signing press conferences have described the water package passed by the legislature last week as an “infrastructure” package, leading to the mis-impression that the purpose of this package is primarily to...continued

Members of Congress act to protect western wildlands

November 12, 2009

Posted by Amy Mall in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
oilandgas, redrock, utah, wilderness

As I discussed in a previous post, the Wilderness Act of 1964 authorizes Congress to protect our nation's wildest lands in order to preserve their natural state and all of the values associated with their wildness. Wilderness Study Areas (WSAs) are lands that...continued

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