Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
We are slowly being infiltrated. Creepy, crawly, slimy little creatures are invading. Aliens are taking over. This isn’t a sci-fi movie. It’s the Great Lakes and it is happening now. But just like in all the scary flicks, bringing the army,...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I hit the Pitchfork Music festival this weekend in Chicago. A blissful weekend of indie rock that included a stellar live performance from Public Enemy.Chuck D, Flava Flav, Terminator X, and the S1Ws ripped through their classic album “It Takes...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Sadly, outbreaks of the cattle disease brucellosis have popped up in Montana and Wyoming recently. Though there has never been a documented case of the disease being transmitted from buffalo to cattle in the wild---and the geography of the outbreak...
Posted by Josh Mogerman
While reading coverage of the current Midwestern flood disaster, I was floored by this headline: 'Giant sponge' saved Gurnee from flooding. Had the wise residents of this northern Illinois town erected a loofah levee? Or rigged a mound of porous kitchen...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Yup, it sounds like a headline from The Onion, but I suppose that is part of the wacky world of western wildlife…The Montana Stockgrowers Association posted a statement on the Home page of their Web site denouncing efforts by NRDC...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
There are plenty of things I could be writing about here…but for some reason the State of Montana keeps forcing me to write about the Yellowstone buffalo. Just weeks after Governor Schweitzer publicly pledged that no more buffalo would be...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
This week it cost me $40 to fill up my car with gas. That got me to thinking…how much does it cost to fuel up a helicopter?Quite a leap, I know, but I have been reading press reports about the...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
As rites of spring go, this a depressing one…The state of Montana has begun hazing America’s last remaining free-ranging buffalo herds from their traditional calving grounds back into Yellowstone National Park.I know, I know… Hazing. That doesn’t sound so bad,...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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....
