Four environmental and sporting groups lost an appeal to the Ninth Circuit on Monday following a failed federal challenge to the U.S. Forest Service’s plan to reroute once-public trails on Montana’s Crazy Mountains.
The gathering, billed as a discussion about climate resilience and renewable energy, quickly became one about the economics of moving Oregon farms and plant nurseries off fossil fuels for the health of the planet and to save them money.
Because wolf management in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming has become more harmful since 2021 to individual wolves and to pack solidarity, the wildlife groups are arguing that the USFWS didn’t do a good analysis before deciding that listing was not warranted.
Collard Sneed writes, "Our modest native plantings attract chickadees, juncos, wrens, kinglets, and other native birds, many of them feeding on the insects that the plants produce."
Three things are pushing the U.S. Bureau of Land Management director to get a lot done by the end of this year: the effects of climate change, the needs of future generations, and the end of President Joe Biden’s first term
A coalition of environmental groups and regional activists are attempting to stop the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from allowing old growth trees to be logged in southern Oregon by waging a complaint in court and sitting in trees slated to be cut.
Colorado lawmakers on Wednesday hailed the announcement by federal officials that 220,000 acres of national forest land on Colorado’s Western Slope will be protected from oil and gas development and mining for at least the next 20 years.
Mike Bader writes, "Identifying locations for installation of passage structures across major highways would facilitate movements not just for grizzlies but many other species including elk, moose and black bears."