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Good News and Bad News About the Polar Bear Decision

May 15, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke

Tags:
arcticseaice, endangeredspeciesact, globalwarming, polarbears, threatenedspecies

There was good news and bad news for the polar bear yesterday. First, the good: after a three-year legal battle waged by NRDC and the Center for Biological Diversity, the Bush Administration announced that it will protect polar bears as...continued

Wyoming Legislators Might Not Like Wolves…Or Foreigners…Or Tourists…

May 9, 2008

Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
EndangeredSpeciesAct, wolves, Wyoming

NRDC has been shining a bright light on the ugliness in the Northern Rockies since grey wolves were delisted last month. To date the animals are being shot down at the rate of one a day in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana....continued

In hand wringing over biofuels mandate, safeguards at risk

May 7, 2008

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
biofuels, cornbasedethanol, foodvsfuel, forest, hersethsandlin, hr5236, markettransformation, RFS

The Hill was alive with the sound of finger pointing and hand-wringing yesterday when I testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality about the RFS. (All the testimony including mine is available...continued

Being unreasonable about wolves

May 5, 2008

Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
endangeredspecies, rockymountains, wildlife, wolves

Last week, NRDC joined with a coalition of partners to challenge the government’s decision to remove federal protections from wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains.  We also asked for an injunction to suspend the killing of wolves in this...continued

Half the Buffalo. All the Problems.

April 30, 2008

Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
bison, brucellosis, buffalo, greaterrockies, greateryellowstone, yellowstonenationalpark

We already knew that this has been a gruesome year for the buffalo of Yellowstone National Park. But a recent flight by park service personnel has given us a new understanding of just how terrible the toll has been on...continued

Paradise Paved - "Discover Kauai"

April 28, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
development, smartgrowth, sprawl, sustainabledevelopment, traffic

 Please forgive the lame title reference to a 40-year-old (!) Joni Mitchell song, but my creative juices are running a little low today.  Fortunately, they weren't running low AT ALL for the guy who made this video.  I could try...continued

Buffalo spirits on the wind

April 24, 2008

Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
bison, brucellosis, buffalo, greaterrockies, greateryellowstone, yellowstonenationalpark

April 15th, blizzarding in Yellowstone.  It was almost a whiteout as I drove south along the Yellowstone River toward the Park, until I got to Yankee Jim Canyon when the sky lifted a little.  But wind continued to roar and...continued

Bees disappear and honey bee theft spreads east

April 23, 2008

Posted by Melissa Waage in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
beetheft, colonycollapsedisorder, honeybees

A few weeks ago I wrote about a rash of honey bee thefts in California, triggered by a shortage of bees and commensurate rise in their dollar value as pollinators. Now it looks like bee theft is moving east.  Some...continued

Remember Wolf 253: originally published in High Country News, Writers on the Range

April 21, 2008

Posted by Louisa Willcox in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
delisting, ESA, greaterrockies, greateryellowstone, wolf, wolfdelisting, wolves, yellowstone

His was a very American story. He was a survivor who never let a handicap curb his wanderlust. At his popularity’s peak,  an army of photographers and fans followed his every move. But it all came to a tragic end...continued

Polar bear pileup

April 18, 2008

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
endangeredspeciesact, globalwarming, polarbears

Just to expand a bit on David's very smart post about the White House's phony "regulatory train wreck" scaremongering over efforts to fight global warming with existing environmental laws, it's worth noting that one of the other laws that the...continued