Tag: wilderness
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Save America’s Forests and Wild Lands from Anti-Environmental Congress
The logging, grazing, mining and other extractive industries are mounting an intense attack on our nation’s public lands. The December 2014 lame duck session of Congress saw an ugly brew of anti-conservation initiatives removing legal conservation protection from millions of acres of public lands. But this was just the tip of the oncoming extractive industries iceberg.…
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So-Called Conservation Groups Betray Environmental Movement
- by Howie Wolke, December 11, 2014, Wilderness Watch My name is Howie Wolke and I live in the foothills of the Gallatin Range in southern Montana just north of Yellowstone National Park, about a mile from the greater Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Complex. I’ve been a wilderness guide/outfitter for backpacking and canoe trips since 1978. I am also…