Opinions on natural resource issues from around the West, featuring Writers on the Range from High Country News.
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Written by Land Letter
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Friday, 29 May 2009 |
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Congress' approval last week of legislation allowing loaded guns in national parks and wildlife refuges raises difficult new challenges for the Interior Department, which must try to strike a balance between lawful, responsible gun use and what many believe will be an uptick in vandalism, poaching and even gun violence involving park visitors. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 29 May 2009 )
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Written by Idaho Statesman
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
Wolves are no longer federally protected in Idaho. The howling you hear as you watch a springtime sunset is not a pack of wolves but environmentalists.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 11 May 2009 )
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Written by New York Times
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Thursday, 07 May 2009 |
During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama strongly supported a regulation enacted near the end of the Clinton administration prohibiting commercial activity in nearly 60 million roadless acres of the national forests. Eager to open those forests to timber and oil companies, the Bush administration spent eight years trying to undermine the rule. It remains at risk, and President Obama should intervene now to save the rule and the forests it is meant to protect.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 07 May 2009 )
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Written by Casper Star-Tribune Editorial Board
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Friday, 01 May 2009 |
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We'll say this right up front: The sage grouse should not be placed
under federal Endangered Species Act protection in Wyoming. Although
the birds' numbers have plummeted in other parts of the West, and it's
clear that they don't do well amid intensive energy development, the
species is not on the brink of extinction. Read more...
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Written by New York Times
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Monday, 27 April 2009 |
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s first big decision was to cancel 77 oil and gas leases in Utah that were awarded in the final months of the Bush administration. Their cancellation sent a clear signal that the Obama administration would take a more measured approach to energy exploration on public lands and that the drill-now-drill-anywhere days were over.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 28 April 2009 )
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Written by New York Times
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009 |
To the list of truly terrible ideas, we would like to add the one that is stirring up residents of southwestern Wyoming.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 22 April 2009 )
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Written by MICHELE HAEFELE, Writers on the Range
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Friday, 17 April 2009 |
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I'm a third-generation Colorado native, and for me, the Rockies have always been all about blue skies and fresh air. Yet I'm old enough to remember the brown cloud that used to hover over Denver. I also remember that after amendments to the Clean Air Act took effect in 1990, I could once again see Pikes Peak from 100 miles away. Unfortunately, our long vistas are being clouded over again, this time by the oil and gas industry. Its supporters immediately – and predictably -- denounced Ken Salazar's farsighted new direction for the Department of the Interior. Read more...
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Written by CATHY MOSER, Writers on the Range
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
Everyone in Lewistown, Mont., used to know that the heart of the state was under Mrs. Dockery's kitchen sink. The prairie town's claim to host Montana's geographic center has been unabashedly celebrated, debated and defended since 1912.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 19 September 2008 )
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Written by ERIC FRANKOWSKI, Writers on the Range
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
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This July, an emergency room nurse named Cathy Behr wanted to tell Colorado’s
Oil and Gas Conservation Commission the story of how she nearly died after being
exposed to a mystery chemical from a gas-patch accident.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 30 July 2008 )
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Written by ANDY GULLIFORD, Writers on the Range
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
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I’ll never forget losing two clients somewhere in the 164,000-acre Canyons of
the Ancients National Monument in southern Colorado. On a glorious
May morning, the two friends walked too fast ahead of the group I was leading
for the Smithsonian Associates Program. The couple disappeared, and the other
members of the tour were worried.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 17 July 2008 )
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Written by DEREK GOLDMAN, Writers on the Range
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
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It's been about three months since wolves in the Northern Rockies were
removed from the protection of the Endangered Species Act. To date, at least
20 wolves have been reported killed in Wyoming, where they may legally be
shot on sight. That's an average of one wolf killed every four and half
days. Five of these wolves were shot in Wyoming during the first weekend
after delisting, with local bloggers bragging about their success:
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