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The Hybrid Car is Still a Death Machine: An Eco-Anarchist Manifesto
by Kalanu Buffalo - Save Feral Human Habitat I’m happy to see that ‘environmentalism’ has become trendy, and that there is a growing movement in our society to reduce the impacts of our civilized lifestyle. Yet, those of us who have long considered ourselves...
Posted 10 March 2008 06:03 PM by smileycoyote | 1 comment(s)
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Trees in Trouble
By BRODIE FARQUHAR Star-Tribune correspondent Tuesday, July 31, 2007 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK -- A history of fire suppression, an invasive fungal plague, and rampant insect infestation fueled by global warming add up to likely extinction for the whitebark...
Posted 31 July 2007 06:31 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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The Lowdown on Wildfires, Salvage Logging, & Thinning
Decreased canopy accompanied by more arid conditions in general make many tinder boxes, forest service "efforts" at fire suppression notwithstanding. Since they ARE getting more frequent, it is safe to say that a few hundred national forest...
Posted 07 July 2007 09:19 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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Wildfire Season is Here
In the Rockies today, as wildfire season swoops down on Colorado's Western Slope, the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands is holding a hearing on Wildfire Preparedness: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure. The...
Posted 19 June 2007 07:42 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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World's Great Apes Face Disaster, says Leakey
Richard Leakey, former head of the Kenya wildlife service and now chair of Wildlife Direct, said apes across the world faced unprecedented threats from the combined effects of hunting, disease and logging. And he said efforts to tackle global warming...
Posted 10 June 2007 09:22 AM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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Dispelling the Cowboy Myth: an Interview with George Wuerthner
Open space isn't necessarily good for wildlife or ecosystem protection. If that were the case, then Montana would not have any endangered species. There would be bison, wolves, grizzlies and sage grouse everywhere—but these species are on the...
Posted 21 May 2007 10:34 AM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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The Withering of the American Environmental Movement
" The absence of a forceful opposition from progressive greens and the appearance/reality of collaboration with the federal government by Beltway groups, only strengthens the cause of the extreme right. As the left migrates toward the center, the...
Posted 19 May 2007 10:59 AM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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It's Not Just Climate Change..
"...we could end carbon emissions tomorrow and the Earth is still on a trajectory to ecologically overshoot its carrying capacity. The social movement to save the Earth and seek to enter an era of global ecological sustainability is a multi-front...
Posted 10 April 2007 09:17 AM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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