Environmental News
More on Fox News and their passionately misinformed legion of followers
From ThinkProgress: Fox News Viewers are the Most Misinformed: A Seventh Study Arrives to Prove It — and Vindicate Jon Stewart!
From HuffingtonPost: Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don’t Watch Any News: Study
From PlanetSave: Fox… 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
If you’ve passed through a pine forest west of the Continental Divide you’ve no doubt seen the devastation the pine beetle has wrought. In British Columbia the government went all out in its fight against the scourge, but has created another through salvage logging. In an effort to stop the… 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
Here’s a number for you: 1.06 trillion dollars.
That’s the minimum amount in relation to gross domestic product (GDP) outdoor recreation, conservation and historic preservation activities mean to the economy according to a recent study by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. This type of number is rarely mentioned by… Read the rest
A scheduled wolf hunt in northeastern Oregon will remain on hold. At least for awhile. In September, the Imnaha wolfpack found itself under the close watch of local ranchers and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW). Two wolves in particular, including the pack’s alpha male, have been cited… Read the rest
The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) released a report titled “Made in America: Investing in National Parks for Our Heritage and Our Economy” on Thursday detailing the impacts mandatory across-the-board cuts in federal funding could have on the parks and visitors. The report also concludes that investments in national parks… Read the rest
More on all things coal
From OpenSecrets.org: Coal Mining: Top Recipients (and MUCH more)
From Second Nature: Coal-Fired Plants Linked to Asthma (and the disprportionate amounts of coal-related asthma cases in the black community)
From Grist: We could replace coal power with geothermal—10 times over
From OnEarth: Coal on a… 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
OR-7 is a two-year-old male wolf, protected by the Endangered Species Act. This September he abandoned his Imnaha pack in Wallowa County and traveled more than 500 miles across mountains, forests and deserts to arrive in the southern Cascade Mountains. Thanks to the transmitter collar assigned to the wolf in… Read the rest
