4+ day, 1+ hour ago  (718+ words) Counter Punch. org After a pleasant half-awakening by the inevitable 4: 15 am American Robin alarm, I had long since drifted into a deep sleep. "Woooop! Wooop! Woooooop! This is the Outagamie County Sheriff's Department. Occupants of number eight one eight'lower apartment'we…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (849+ words) When the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held confirmation hearings for current Department of Interior head Doug Burgum, he made it quite clear that he viewed public lands, lands belonging to the American public, as an asset on "America's…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago  (346+ words) The Interior Board of Land Appeals vacated the BLM's decision authorizing cutting and burning 560, 000 acres of mainly pinyon-juniper woodlands and sagebrush habitat in southwest Utah in response to an appeal by Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Wildlands Defense, and Native…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1162+ words) The Greater Yellowstone Coalition (GYC) has a new TV ad advocating support for the Greater Yellowstone Conservation and Recreation Act. The Act would designate wilderness for a portion of the Gallatin Range, south of Bozeman. Still, it would significantly REDUCE…...

4+ week, 2+ hour ago  (585+ words) Image by Pierre Bamin. This week in the Anthropocene I've seen dead birds. Dozens of them. Washed ashore in various stages of decay, lining the beaches of Southern California. Seagulls, cormorants, pelicans, puffins, loons. All of the most glorious of…...

1+ mon, 2+ hour ago  (1051+ words) Deforestation deprives many animals of their native habitats, and the few who can adapt are driven into proximity with human-made environments, which also increases the likelihood that a disease will adapt to a new population (from human to nonhuman animal,…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (944+ words) Image by Mitchell Luo. Dispatches from the Terminal Ward of the Western Echo Chamber From the Edge of the Confirmation Bias Abyss Something is cosmically wrong with the primordial ooze. They are, in their natural habitat, magnificent in a terrible…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (387+ words) Forests surrounding Garnet, Montana, in the Garnet Range, 1898. If you're wondering why the Alliance for the Wild Rockies wins 80% of its lawsuits against Forest Service logging projects, the answer is simple: It's because the agency repeatedly breaks the laws that…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (392+ words) This was a social media post presented by Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican U. S. House member, who bucked the GOP leadership on Earth Day to protect Endangered Species. Fifty-six years ago 20 million people across the nation celebrated the first…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (419+ words) The Custer-Gallatin National Forest proposed the Bear-Palmer "Forest Health" Project on the northern border of Yellowstone National Park, near Gardiner, Montana." The project would clearcut 824 acres, commercially log most trees on 802 acres, and leave small, isolated clusters of trees on…...