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Scientists Warn Congress Against Fast-Track Logging in Forests Recovering from FireYesterday, 169 of the nation’s top scientists sent a letter to members of Congress calling for the defeat of legislative efforts to expedite logging in areas recovering from fires and other natural disturbances. The letter was released before today’s scheduled mark-up in Chairman Richard Pombo’s House Resources Committee of the so-called Forest Emergency Recovery and Research Act [HR 4200]. [more]
Conservation Groups Appeal Lolo National Forest Decision for Industrial Logging in Unroaded Wildland
Restoration or Exploitation?Claiming that the Fishtrap project perfectly illustrates the failed nature of the current U.S. Forest Service management scheme for restoring forests, the Ecology Center, Native Forest Network and Alliance for the Wild Rockies have filed a formal administrative appeal over the Fishtrap logging project that calls for industrial logging in unroaded wildlands, old-growth forests and habitat for grizzly bears and bull trout. [more]
Proposal has everything to do with real estate profits
Historic Sites, Pristine Roadless Lands, Water Quality, Elk Habitat Threatened by Ski ResortOn September 9th and 10th 1805, after traveling down the Bitterroot River, the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped at Travelers Rest in the shadow of Lolo Peak. On September 11th while traveling up present-day Lolo Creek, Lewis wrote in his journal “the mountains on the left high & covered with snow.� Lolo Peak (9,096' elev.), now Missoula Montana's loftiest landmark dominates the high peaks at the northern boundary of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness and looks today much as it did 200 years ago.
A massive ski resort development billed as the largest in North America (A ski area twice the size of Big Mountain in Whitefish, MT.) is being proposed for the public lands surrounding Lolo Peak. The proposed development of a full-service “village� with high-end shops, 2200 exclusive housing units, ice skating rink and a golf course is just 3 miles from historic sites at Travelers Rest State Park and the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail and would forever blemish the historic view from the adjacent Lolo Trail. [more]
Why does logging Industry official fear true restoration vision for public lands?
“This is Very Dangerous Stuff”An email from Julia Altemus, Resource Specialist at Montana Logging Association was obtained recently as part of a Native Forest Network Freedom of Information Act request regarding communications between public officials at the Bitterroot National Forest and the logging industry shines light on true colors of some within the industry. [more]
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What’s MSSN Montana?MSSN is the New Montana Seed Savers Network which is forming to co-ordinate the networking in Montana of locally grown natural (and hopefully organic) seed stock (vegetable, fruit, herbs and flowers) as well as educating interested people in the art of seed saving. [more]
Montana House Bill 60 Makes Way for Meth Lab CleanupMontana House Bill 60, effective October 1, 2005, sets the first state standards for decontamination of clandestine methamphetamine labs. The Department of Environmental Quality will administer the bill and property owners foot the bill. [more]
Katrina Makes Us RememberWhere is the show of humanity?
-By Alex Loeb
Where is the show of humanity? The uplifting silver lining of disaster that gives society heroes. That shows, despite death and hardship, our ideology and moral fabric that make up our society has stood strong once more. It was lost, or never was, in the filthy drying streets on New Orleans, and it took a hurricane to show America what was already gone before the waters came. [more]
Billboard Alert!Do you hate looking at the 6000 billboards we have in our state? You'll be looking at them for a long, long time if Senate Bill 411 passes the Montana Legislature. [more]
Just Like Going to a Whole New Ski ResortI went skiing yesterday at Red Lodge Mountain . and used my season pass that has laid dormant at the bottom of my ski bag since the end of February. Only instead of the familiar Rock Dodge experience, I felt like I was on vacation at a ski resort I had never been to before. [more]
The world is full of Starbucks and the number increases rapidly the farther you get from Missoula MTMusings on the coming of Starbucks to the last best place... [more]
