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Written by COLLEEN LUCCIOLI, Land Letter
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
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Fed up with the Bush administration's inactivity, an environmental group last week filed suit against the Fish and Wildlife Service in an effort to force protection of 681 Western plant and animal species under the Endangered Species Act.
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Written by Greenwire
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
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Ten years after its reintroduction, the Mexican gray wolf, the most genetically distinct species of gray wolf in North America, is struggling to survive in the Southwest as conservation groups and ranchers battle over the wolf's place in the wild and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service works to find a balance.
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Written by Greenwire
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
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Supplies of drinking water for tens of thousands of people near Superfund
sites in Utah
have been at risk or polluted because of groundwater contamination.
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Written by KATHERINE BOYLE, Greenwire
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
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Climate change could spur more water pollution and reduce the availability
of drinking water, according to a new U.S. EPA strategy
for coping with global warming.
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Written by HENRY BREAN, Review Journal
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
The ideas range from tearing out thirsty groves of salt cedar to towing icebergs down from the Arctic, from seeding clouds over the Rockies to filtering salt from seawater. When it comes to squeezing every drop from the shrinking sponge of the Colorado River, few options, it seems, are too complicated or expensive.
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Written by APRIL REESE, Land Letter
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 |
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Two environmental groups filed a petition last week asking the Supreme
Court to hear their challenge to the REAL ID Act, a 2005 law that
allows the Department of Homeland Security to suspend any federal law
to expedite construction of new fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The groups, Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club, contend that the
law violates the Constitution's separation of powers provisions and
allows the federal government to damage the environment and dismiss
public concerns.
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Written by ERIC BONTRAGER, Greenwire
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 |
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Five former Forest Service chiefs this week endorsed a proposal by
House Democrats to create an interagency fund for fighting large
wildfires, saying the measure offered an essential step toward
reorganizing the service.
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Written by SARA GOODMAN, Land Letter
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
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West Coast salmon are returning to the Sacramento River in historically
low numbers, sending government fisheries managers and others
scrambling to understand what has caused the unprecedented drop.
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Written by ERIC BONTRAGER, Land Letter
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
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They are the giants of the forests. Older than and towering above any
person that looks up at them, the trees that make up the Pacific
Northwest's old-growth forests offer a glimpse of nature untouched by
humanity's hand.
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Written by Land Letter
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Friday, 21 March 2008 |
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WOODLAND PARK, Colo. -- Hatchet in hand, Jeff Witcosky ascends a steep,
snow-covered hillside in search of an unwelcome visitor to this
picturesque mountain town. He is on the hunt for a predator with a
voracious appetite that has already altered the landscape of 1.5
million acres in Colorado. This invader -- the mountain pine beetle --
is no bigger than the tip of a matchstick, but it has a big bite.
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Written by ERIC BONTRAGER, Greenwire
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Friday, 21 March 2008 |
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Congressional appropriators have ordered a study to determine whether
the Forest Service would be better suited as a component of the
Interior Department.
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Written by BEN GEMAN, Greenwire
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Friday, 21 March 2008 |
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Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter (D) says the Interior Department is planning
an overly aggressive approach toward development of massive oil shale
resources that lie beneath Colorado and other Western states.
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Written by NANCY PERKINS, Deseret Morning News
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Friday, 21 March 2008 |
Utah's snowpack is in good shape this year with most of the state's reservoirs expected to fill up nicely during spring runoff, according to Randy Julander, snow survey supervisor with the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
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Written by The Associated Press
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Friday, 21 March 2008 |
How to clear legal obstacles, combine interests and pay for solutions for future water needs in a statewide plan were topics batted around in a lively discussion among the state's water leaders Friday. Conclusions were hard to come by.
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Written by RENA DELBRIDGE, Star-Tribune
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Wednesday, 19 March 2008 |
Some water rights holders along a 33-mile stretch of the North Platte River are concerned about how they could be affected by a large ranch’s petition to transfer significant water rights upstream.
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Written by PETER METCALF, New West
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
The Department of the Interior officially announced this morning the removal of the Northern Rocky Mountains population of gray wolves from the Endangered Species List.
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Written by New West
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
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Yellowstone National Park officials shipped 57 wild bison to slaughter this morning, bringing to 1,098 the number of wild bison killed this winter. This year's death toll surpasses that of 1996-1997, when 1,084 bison were killed, constituting the largest wild bison slaughter since the 19th century.
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Written by KYLE LEHMAN, New West
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
Wyoming’s natural gas-rich Pinedale region faces tightening air quality regulations, the EPA announced Wednesday. The new EPA regulations would cut the area’s allowable amount of ozone by six percent.
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Written by Indian Country Today
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
The Center for Biological Diversity and Maricopa Audubon have won a federal district court lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to continue Endangered Species Act protection for the desert-nesting bald eagle, found mostly in Arizona.
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Written by TODD HARTMAN, Rocky Mountain News
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
Energy development operations are being conducted on about a dozen of Colorado's 230 wildlife refuges, but the hunters who have encountered the traffic and noise of the drilling operations in those refuges said they won't be back to hunt there again.
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