Governors Push Wildlife Protection Initiative

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By Jonathan Weber, 6-30-08

The annual Western Governor's Association meeting kicked off in Jackson Hole Sunday, with the initial discussions focussed on how to protect wildlife amidst the oil-and-gas drilling boom. The Denver Post reports that the governors created a Western Wildlife Council to work on habitat and wildlife corridor issues. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne and NBC News celebrity Tom Brokaw addressed the group Sunday, along with several energy industry executives. The meeting of governors form 19 states continues Monday and Tuesday.

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Comments

By bear bait, 6-30-08

The Western Governors must be pushing a secret wildlife protection initiative. I can't seem to find it.

Or, my computer literacy quotient just dropped again.

By vagabond, 6-30-08

Or maybe it is the wildlife protection policy that wiped out half the Yellowstone bison this last year. There's a wildlife protection policy we can all get behind and be proud of. They'll take aim at elk next.

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