conservation
With environmental-cartoon topics ranging from Michelle Bachmann to Tim DeChristopher, Breastfeeding to Big Coal, it was an interesting year in environmental cartoons.
Follow this link and spend a few minutes looking over what were my eleven most-viewed cartoons of 2011.
Happy New Year!
Joe Mohr (aka “Mean Joe green”)
Joe’s … Read the rest
Part surfing documentary and part environmental journalism, Tipping Barrels: Journey Into the Great Bear… Read the rest is a 20-minute short that’s worth the watch. Surfers and brothers Arran and Reid Jackson venture through Central and North Coast, B.C., wherein lies one of the unspoiled rainforests in the world—a home to wolves, grizzlies,
Trout Unlimited is venturing far south of the U.S. border in partnering with Patagonia Sur, a for-profit company whose focus is purchasing and protecting fish and wildlife habitat in Chilean Patagonia. Trout Unlimited, whose mission is “to conserve, protect and restore North America’s coldwater fisheries and their watersheds,” will be… Read the rest
Both the county and city mayors of Salt Lake City, along with the US Forest Service, have recently voiced their opposition to a proposed Utah ski lift, which would link two Salt Lake City area ski resorts, The Canyons and Solitude.
Management from the two resorts met this past fall… Read the rest
Judge Royce C. Lambeth ruled last Monday that Alaska’s Cook Inlet beluga whales were properly listed as endangered and said the National Marine Fisheries Service correctly followed the Endangered Species Act. The state’s lawsuit was rejected on grounds that a decade long ban on subsistence hunting of the whales had… Read the rest
The first wolf trapping season in the lower 48 since the species’ reintroduction into the Rocky Mountain states opened last week in northern Idaho. The season, running from November 15 to March 31, will allow previously protected wolves to be caught and killed with metal foothold traps. Ranchers and cattlemen… Read the rest
Courtney Mattison is a scientist, artist, environmentalist and student. In order to better understand ocean life and the organisms in her studies she started a project that would visually represent the Earth’s oceans. She decided to create a 15-foot tall, 11-foot wide, and 1500 pound sculpture that would reflect not… Read the rest
A couple weeks ago, we told you about the Great Salmon Run, an event that took place to raise awareness for the Snake River salmon. Want to learn more about salmon recovery? If you’re in Portland, Ore. stop by the Lewis & Clark State College Student Union Building Solarium on… Read the rest
Since 2002, EcoFlight has flown concerned people above forests, mountains and wetlands to share a unique perspective of the way nature interacts with harmful industries. The aerial view allows people to form a direct connection to what is happening and to better understand the dramatic effect of man interrupting nature.… Read the rest
Several representatives of hunting, logging and snowmobiling groups gathered in Augusta, Maine’s capitol city to debate a proposed national park which would occupy the area east of Baxter State Park, famous for Mount Katahdin, Maine’s highest peak.
Roxanne Quimby, a Maine landowner and founder of Burt’s Bees skin care products,… Read the rest
