Bidness calls and I will checking out for a while. G. W. and I are getting together to decide which species we would like to go extinct next. It's been a hoot debating you left wing lemmings over the past few days. I'll let you all lick your wounds and regroup for a while, and look foward to...
The area I was planning on putting up my hunting camp is on fire. I don't think this one will be going out soon. A lot of deadwood in steep inaccessable terrain. This fire needed to happen, but I wish it happened in the spring or fall, not the dead of summer. The fire crews have set up camp...
Here's a little insight on the politics going on and the cast of charactors agendas. This is a response to a news paper editorial by Bob Fanning.
Paul
Dear Editor, The recent letter (on 7/10/03) to Montana and Wyoming newspapers from Ed Bangs, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services' wolf project...
Federal Anti-Bear Hunting Bill Dies in Committee
Bill Could Still Be Amended to Interior Spending Bill
(Columbus) – Congressional legislation to ban bear hunting was withdrawn from consideration by a House committee today. Intense sportsmen’s pressure, drummed up by the U.S. Sportsmen’s...
Ruling sets an unmanageable standard - Sunday, July 6, 2003
SUMMARY: Surveys and analysis are no substitute for actual management of our forests.
The University of Montana is proposing to change the name of the School of Forestry to College of Forestry and Conservation. We have a better idea...
Funny, no mention of who plans to assume payment of the grazing leases. 10 to 1 Bina Robinson is a vegan. So what is going to happen next, after the cattleman are moved of the land. Golf courses, trinket shops, and condos I'm betting Paul
Anti-cattle, pro-bison letters surprise Forest...
That New Ruminant Ban & Your Canadian Hunt" If you have heard that the US Department of Agriculture has banned the importation of big game trophies from Canada, don't cancel your hunt for this season just yet. The ban we're talking about of course is the recent decision by the US Dept. of Ag to...
I have found Jack Ward Thomas's point of view to be fair and balanced. He is also staff member for the Boone and Crockett Club, as well as a professor (gasp) at U. M..
Paul
Reality review faults Northwest Forest Plan
By JEFF BARNARD of the Associated Press
People have been forgotten...
Here's a good example of what happens when we let the East Coasters or Left Coasters, or the city dwellers decide local issues such as hunting, forest management, preditor reintroductions, and so on. Wasn't elkdumber an advocate for such action?
Paul
Federal Bill to ban Bear Baiting must be...
So what do you think folks? Should we breach some dams, and cause our electric and heating costs to go up even more?
Paul
High natural gas prices, shortages worry industry, government
Posted at 4 p.m. June 25
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON - If a gallon of milk cost $8 and a gallon of...
More than 100 people attend environmental activism camp
DARBY - Likening themselves to the patriots who raised a ruckus by dumping crates of tea into Boston Harbor two centuries ago, more than 100 environmental activists are camped in the Bitterroot National Forest backcountry this week...
Quota cut, as officials worry about low calf numbers
Posted at 2:50 p.m. June 19
By Associated Press
GREAT FALLS - State wildlife officials have cut the hunting quota for elk in a portion of the Sun River Wildlife Management Area near Augusta, citing concerns about the low number of...
British Columbia is thick with grizzlies, but the antis still want to stop the hunt. Why not have both photography and hunting? Wouldn't this bring in more revenue then one or the other?
Paul
Grizzlies said to be worth more for photography than hunting
Posted at 3 p.m. June 19
By Associated...
Forest activists plan 'boot camp'
By SHERRY DEVLIN of the Missoulian
Week of environmentalist training scheduled in Bitterroot
Veteran environmental activists will train 80 novice ruckus raisers during a weeklong encampment in the Bitterroot National Forest at the end of June, who then...
State Of Denial: Scarring The Boreal
By TOM KNUDSON
THE SACRAMENTO BEE
Published: May 27, 2003, 06:43:40 AM PDT
Ten years after the historic battle to protect spotted owls and old-growth forests, California's woods are quiet, almost churchlike.
The chain saws and logging trucks that...
If you heat with natural gas, get ready for a corn hole enlargement.
Paul
Big natural gas increase sought
By CHARLES S. JOHNSON Missoulian State Bureau
HELENA - NorthWestern Energy will ask the state Public Service Commission on Monday to raise its natural gas rates by 45 percent for...
I have a compromise for the dam breaching advocates. You and one million other salmon lovers pitch in 3 grand appiece into an interest bearing bond. Total bond necessary for implementation would be 3 billion. This figure could be negotiated. It shouldn't be to difficult to accomplish this...
Small Pox should be on the EDL (endangered disease list) and should be reintroduced to it's native habitat. Should be real good for the enviroment considering millions of people will die. Just think, some of the casualties may include atv riders, and illeagal allien's (pandering for cjcj's yes...
Groups assail proposed wolf plan
By SHERRY DEVLIN of the Missoulian
Animal Protection Institute says species would be 'cut off life support'
Environmentalists and animal rights activists on Friday lambasted the state of Montana's proposed wolf management plan, saying it would renew "the...