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by Women of Age Riding Horses.com April 6, 2018 was National Hostess Twinkies Day, a salute to the cream filled cake invented in Illinois in 1930. When we were young, Twinkies were standard store in our kitchen cupboard. When we did our homework, made our beds mom rewarded […]
by Peter Friederici as published on the Arizona Daily Sun “We have no precise words for how the wolf was known and loved or feared…” The story begins with a wolf standing by the side of the road. This isn’t the story you might think. There’s no helpless […]
By Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility “Alaska’s predator control program is clearly out of control,” Washington, DC, April 3, 2018 — The State of Alaska is scrambling to shut down hunting and trapping adjacent to Denali National Park over concerns that excessive kills may destabilize this iconic wolf […]
by John Siciliano as published on the Washington Examiner “”Putting Combs in charge of the Fish and Wildlife Service is like appointing an arsonist as the town fire marshal,” Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is appointing a top critic of endangered species protections the head of the agency charged with […]
By Amanda Peacher as published on KUER.org “More flexibility is code for relaxing or eliminating environmental safeguards and standards that are mandatory…” Following Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke‘s repeated calls for more management of public lands, this spring the Bureau of Land Management is giving certain ranchers more […]
By Erik Molvar as published on The Hill “There is no shortage of severe damage from livestock overgrazing on public lands in my home state of Wyoming… Thanks to a legal settlement between conservation groups and the National Park Service, Point Reyes National Seashore has now stopped blindly […]
SOURCE: Environmental Working Group By Alex Formuzis, Sr VP Communications and Strategic Campaigns and Sonya Lunder, Senior Analyst Thursday, March 29, 2018 One year ago today, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt sided with the pesticide lobby over EPA scientists in an eleventh-hour decision to abort the agency’s […]
Source: Environmental Working Group Contact: Alex Formuzis For Immediate Release: Friday, March 30, 2018 WASHINGTON – Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, a spendthrift with taxpayer funds, is frugal with his own money – but he doesn’t seem to care about conflicts of interest on his own dime. […]
Source: The Wildlife News By George Wuerthner In a March 26th Times News article, Karen Launchbaugh, a University of Idaho range professor, propagandized misleading ideas about livestock grazing. Like nearly all range professor, Ms. Launchbaugh, sees her job as promoting livestock grazing. I know because I studied range […]
by Levi Rickert as published on Native News.com “Given the number of buffalo captured for slaughter and quarantine, along with the excessive hunting that took place along Yellowstone’s boundary, more than 1,200 buffalo have been eliminated from the country’s last wild, migratory buffalo populations, which now hovers at fewer than […]
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