Posted in Arizona, California, Conservation, Environment, Politics on April 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
What do you do to feed your 800 pound gorilla if it’s energy he wants? The present opinion seems to be “anything you can possibly imagine doing, no matter what the cost”.
If your gorilla is in L.A., you go get it from southeastern California and Arizona by trampling all over the Big Morongo Wildlife Preserve [...]
Posted in Elk, Hunting, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, White-tail deer on April 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »
$2.399 per gallon, 16 gallons to fill the tank, total: $38.38. The accompanying feeling of outrage and frustration isn’t a pleasant one.
The road up out of the valley into the canyon is more difficult this time of year, with ruts in the muddy sections, and ice under the snow-covered sections, causing the Jeep to slide [...]
Posted in Conservation, Environment, Idaho, Montana, Nature, Oregon, Outdoors, Politics, Washington, Wilderness Bill H.R. 1975, Wyoming, denny rehberg on April 26, 2007 | 16 Comments »
When the new Wilderness Bill was announced, Montana’s only member of the House of Representatives, Denny Rehberg, immediately came out in opposition to it in a poorly worded, poorly organized and factually empty statement quoted in this story in the Missoulian: “I oppose this legislation because it’s a top-down approach that doesn’t properly take into [...]
Posted in Humor, Hunting, Montana, Nature, Outdoors on April 25, 2007 | 8 Comments »
It was hunting season in northwestern Montana and the high mountain roads were either snow packed or ice covered or both as was the stretch coming up ahead of us. As I piloted the Jeep up that particularly steep and extremely icy section, almost wide enough for the wheels, I said to my son and [...]
Posted in Conservation, Environment, Idaho, Montana, Nature, Oregon, Outdoors, Politics, Washington, Wilderness Bill H.R. 1975, Wyoming on April 25, 2007 | No Comments »
I was delighted to see this post on Random Musings this morning.
aullori’s response is exactly what I wish we would see from people all over America who are concerned about our natural resources.
Posted in Conservation, Environment, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photos, Pictures, Wilderness Bill H.R. 1975 on April 24, 2007 | 13 Comments »
This bill addresses precious wild country in five states in the Northwest. Since I have the good fortune to live in one of them (Montana), I am pleased to show some photos taken in and near a few of the areas close to me and where I have spent a fair amount of time. They [...]
Posted in Conservation, Environment, Idaho, Montana, Nature, Oregon, Outdoors, Politics, Washington, Wilderness Bill H.R. 1975, Wyoming, denny rehberg on April 23, 2007 | 9 Comments »
On Friday, 4/20/2007, the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, H.R. 1975 was introduced in the 110th Congress. It will designate all of the inventoried roadless areas in the Northern Rockies as wilderness, giving them the government’s strongest protection. This is a total of 23 million acres of roadless area that would be protected forever under [...]
Posted in Conservation, Environment, Fishing, Montana, Nature, Outdoors on April 22, 2007 | 20 Comments »
“two sets of rules”… “one for the rich and one for the rest of us”.
The picture painted in this story in the Kalispell Montana Daily Interlake on June 6, 2006 is an idyllic one of a man finding “balance” in his life in the wild outdoors of Montana and helping others to do the same. [...]
Posted in Fishin' stories, Fishing, Humor, Montana, Nature, Outdoors on April 21, 2007 | 6 Comments »
It’s a fact of life these days, and probably soon to be enacted into law, that you must be specifically (and expensively) dressed and equipped for every recreational activity in which you intend to engage, including but not limited to, fly fishing for trout.
The Federal trout fishing dress code regulations have not yet been [...]
Posted in Conservation, Environment, Montana, Nature, Outdoors on April 20, 2007 | 14 Comments »
Yesterday in Kalispell Montana there was a lawsuit settlement which cleared the way for an individual to operate a gravel pit approximately two miles from the junction of U.S. Highway 2 and Going to the Sun Road, between the highway and the Glacier National Park boundary. As this story in The Daily Interlake describes. [...]
