by Editor | Mar 26, 2013 | Wildlands Project, Wolves
By SEAN ELLIS Capital Press Posted 3/25/2013 BOISE, ID — Two bills that would make more money available to control wolves and compensate producers in Idaho who have lost cattle to the predators are moving through the Idaho Legislature. One is on the verge of...
by Editor | Mar 26, 2013 | Wildlands Project, Wolves
By Mitch Lies Capital Press Posted 3/26/2013 SALEM, OREGON — Wolf expert Carter Niemeyer told lawmakers here March 25 that once wolves start feeding on livestock, it is extremely difficult to break them of the habit. “Generally when you have a wolf pack...
by Editor | Mar 24, 2013 | Water Issues
Posted 3/23/2013 By Joe Smillie Peninsula Daily News SEQUIM, WA –– The Olympic Resource Protection Council has received pledges for almost half the $100,000 it seeks to raise to mount a legal challenge to a new Dungeness water rule, members said at a Concerned...
by Editor | Mar 23, 2013 | Govt Agencies
Posted 3/22/2013 The Bill: H.R. 808, the Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2013 Annualized Cost: $10 billion ($50 billion over 5 years) In each Congress from 2001 to 2009, former Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced a bill to establish a Department of Peace...
by Editor | Mar 23, 2013 | Environmental Lawsuits, Govt Agencies, War on the West
Posted 3/22/2013 Capital Press GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A timber industry group has filed a lawsuit challenging the latest habitat protections for the northern spotted owl, a threatened species. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Washington, D.C.,...
