submitted to Earth First! Journal KANAB, Utah — As the public comment period closes today on a new management plan for the severely-reduced Bears Ears National Monument, Western Watersheds Project has submitted comments seeking to limit the damage from livestock grazing, mining, oil and gas development, and other activities that
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Yellowstone Streams Recovering Thanks to Wolf Reintroduction
Photo: Blacktail Deer Creek courtesy of Oregon State University. by Steve Lundeberg / Science Daily The findings, published today in Ecohydrology, are important because they highlight the role big predators play in the health of aquatic and riparian ecosystems. Robert Beschta and William Ripple of the OSU College of Forestry
Next Generation ‘May Never See the Glory of Coral Reefs’
Bleached coral in Guam in 2017. Photograph: David Burdick/AP by Jonathan Watts / The Guardian Undersea forests, bleached and killed by rising ocean temperature, might disappear in a few decades, experts warn. Children born today may be the last generation to see coral reefs in all their glory, according
Stop Biodiversity Loss or We Could Face Our Own Extinction, Warns UN
Deforestation in Indonesian to make way for a palm oil concession. Photograph: Ulet Ifansasti/Greenpeace by Jonathan Watts / The Guardian The world has two years to secure a deal for nature to halt a ‘silent killer’ as dangerous as climate change, says biodiversity chief. The world must thrash out a
Fishermen Petition State to Control Pollution on California’s Wildest Salmon River
Submitted post. Smith River, CA – Today the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, Institute for Fisheries Resources, and Environmental Law Foundation petitioned California’s State Water Resources Control Board to regulate large scale pesticide pollution from lily bulb farms in the Smith River’s estuary. The Smith River in far Northern
Pagans Sabotage Coyote Hunt
submitted to Earth First! Journal In the early hours of Samhain, somewhere in an area commonly known as Michigan, some pagans gathered in the forest to remember their loved ones in somber ritual. In silence, the offerings were made, the small flames flickered, and those pagans remembered they were
The First Jaguar Cubs Are Born in Iberá After Decades of Absence
from Tompkins Conservation Website The two new jaguar cubs with their mother. Meet the newest additions to Iberá Park in Argentina. June 6, 2018, is a historic day for Tompkins Conservation’s rewilding efforts, as it marks the arrival of two new jaguar cubs in Iberá Park, situated in the wetlands
Grizzly Attacks Hunter in Mountains North of Yellowstone
by Matt Volz / Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A grizzly bear attacked an elk hunter who surprised the sow and her cub north of Yellowstone National Park, with the bear sinking her teeth into his arm and clawing his eye before another hunter drove her off, the victim
Rojava: Between City and Village, Between War and Ecology
by Resistance is Life/It’s Going Down The Rojava Revolution is an event deeply rooted in a specific place; a place that exists on a scale that’s both personal and dauntingly immense. Rojava, or western Kurdistan, is part of the fertile crescent, the region where humanity developed agriculture and the other