November 7, 2020 Trump Admin regulatory changes would end ESA landgrabs In 2011, FWS designated over 1,500 acres of land as critical habitat for the dusky gopher frog. Despite this designation, the dusky gopher frog…
November 1, 2020 Enviros lose court battle to stop miners from prospecting on federal land The National Mining Association (NMA), who intervened in the case on behalf of DOI, said the environmental groups sought to invalidate regulations from 2003…
October 21, 2020 Wind blows it as an energy resource in the Pacific Northwest Lifecycle economic and environmental impacts expected to result from further development of wind power needs to be scrutinized to a much higher degree with…
October 16, 2020 “Clean” energy’s dirty little secrets Solar and wind farms also need 100 times the land area of fossil fuel-generated electricity, and these resulting changes in land use can have…
October 13, 2020 Acts addressing murdered and missing Native American women signed by President Trump Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez, in a statement, called the signing of the two bills “a historic day for all tribes across the country” and…
October 2, 2020 California Gov. Newsom exploiting wildfires to push radical climate change agenda Research shows massive wildfires have regularly swept through California. Indeed, a 2007 paper in the journal Forest Ecology and Management reported that prior to European colonization in…
September 26, 2020 Retired Fire Chief: The end of logging is turning forests into tinderboxes Going back to Native Americans in America, controlled burning (later called Prescribed Fire) have saved the west from huge conflagrations. By burning large brush…
September 20, 2020 Tree Huggers vs Science: The environmental movement’s confused forest policy In a historic forest, gentle fires burned often enough to clear dead wood and small trees from under the big trees. They might flare…
September 10, 2020 FLASHBACK: Five years ago Obama’s EPA blew out the Gold King Mine then betrayed the Navajo Nation …the Navajo Nation had its own share of frustrations with the federal response to the incident. According to Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch, “The…
September 3, 2020 Trump’s Fish and Wildlife chief “working hard” to remove wolves from endangered species list Skipwith, echoing the Fish and Wildlife Service’s long-held policy, told the AP the wolf has “biologically recovered” and that its removal from the list…
