The writer says despite the fierce rhetoric, Montana
voters supported conservation
Items by Ben Long
The writer is amused by the blaze-orange posturing of both
candidates for president
The writer blasts the National Rifle Association for
neglecting its mission and hawking falsehoods about the Sierra
Club
The writer celebrates a jury decision in Boise,
Idaho
The Rocky Mountain Front in Montana is precious land, and
it is under threat from the Bush administration’s predatory
energy policy
Ben Long writes of his love for the wild Rocky Mountain
Front, an area targeted for energy development
Montana’s two varieties of sturgeon, the white and
the pallid, have just been given an expiration date, and human
beings should be paying more attention to this extinction
Ben Long celebrates and mourns the 1,500-pound sturgeon, a
dinosaur cousin on a fast track to extinction.
Ben Long wonders at the phenomenon: U.S. senators riding
Harleys.
Ben Long urges Wyoming politicians to listen to the
experts when it comes to wolves and elk
Before the U.S. tries to crack down on suspicious-looking
Muslims and Middle Easterners, it would do well to remember the
World War II era injustice of Japanese-American internment camps
like Minidoka, Idaho.
A visit to Yellowstone in winter leads to encounters with
park employees eager for (and snowmobilers vehemently against) the
coming banishment of snowmobiles from the national park.
A Montana mill owner's plan to send 10,000 shovels to
Elko, Nev., so sagebrush rebels can re-open a road closed by the
Forest Service, is "a triumph of symbolism over substance,"
according to the writer.
The killing of wolves in Alberta, Canada, may drive
Montana wolves into biological isolation.
The Sawtooth wolf pack in Montana is having trouble
finding a home.
Carter Niemeyer investigates so-called wolf-killed
livestock and finds wolves are usually innocent.
Evidence of a wolf that roamed into Yellowstone suggests
reintroduction is unecessary.
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