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Mike Allen:  Dems sketch Obama staff, Cabinet  Nov 3, 2008 Medford Mail-Tribune:  Omnibus land act includes wilderness designations  Nov 3, 2008
Time:  Offsetting Bush's Green Legacy: Advice for No. 44  Nov 3, 2008 Michael Barker:  The Philanthropic Roots Of Corporate Environmentalism  Nov 3, 2008
Geoff Metcalf:  Treason From Within  Nov 4, 2008 Walter E. Williams:  Destroying Liberty  Nov 3, 2008
Idaho Statesman:  Western Democrats say Obama will change public-lands policies  Nov 5, 2008 Christian Science Monitor:  Bush’s parting moves on the environment  Nov 5, 2008
Bill Willers:  Privatizing the Public Estate  Nov 5, 2008 Environmental News Service:  High Environmental Hopes Riding on Obama's Green Promises  Nov 5, 2008
New Scientist:  Bush Rushes through Harmful Environment Laws  Nov 5, 2008 Washington Post:  Robert F. Kennedy Eyed to Head EPA  Nov 6, 2008
Washington Post:  Federal employees complain about lack of leadership, action  Nov 7, 2008 William M. Gray:  Over-Hyping of Green  Nov 5, 2008
iStockAnalyst:  Property Rights Group Asks Members to Fight Crapo's Owyhee Bill  Nov 12, 2008 Oregonian:  Oregon lawmakers ready to take 'big picture' approach on land use  Nov 13, 2008
GAO Report:  Federal Land Management:  Use of Stewardship Contracting Is Increasing, but Agencies Could Benefit from Better Data and Contracting Strategies.  GAO-09-23, November 13, 2008 USDA ERSFood Security in the United States  Nov 17, 2008
Idaho Statesman:  Obama would do well to follow Kempthorne's example in the West  Nov 17, 2008 Washington Post:  Obama wrote federal employees, promising to change Bush's policies  Nov 17, 2008
Cliff Kincaid:  Wall Street socialism paves way for Global Government  Nov 16, 2008 David Stirling and Steven Gieseler:  Environmentalists' hysteria loses  Nov 16, 2008
Dr. Joanne Isaac:  The Greenie Wars  Nov 17, 2008 Washington Post:  Administration Moves to Protect Key Appointees  Nov 17, 2008
New West:  Parting Shots from the Bush Interior Department  Nov 18, 2008 Deseret News:  U.S. Senate tables Public Lands Omnibus bill for this session  Nov 19, 2008
Seattle PI OpinionBushies are burrowing into Obama administration  Nov 19, 2008 Sacramento Bee:  Deal reached to limit planting fish for sport  Nov 21, 2008
Erica Carle:  Brainwashing Children Through Social Science  Nov 22, 2008 AZ Central:  Contention growing over public lands  Nov 23, 2008
Modesto Bee:  Environmental groups optimistic, industry wary about Obama  Nov 24, 2008 Edwin Vieria, Jr.:  Bedrock of the Constitution Oct 30, 2008
Helena Independent Record:  County demands seat at table with federal agencies  Nov 28, 2008 Washington Post:  EPA, Interior Dept. Chiefs Will Be Busy Erasing Bush's Mark  Nov 28, 2008
Washington Post:  Outgoing administration issues 61 'midnight regulations'  Nov 29, 2008
UK Telegraph:  Lawyers call for international court for the environment  Dec 1, 2008
Julie Kay Smithson:  Language Deception by Any Other Name is still Language Deception:  Aesopian language, Consensus (conned senses), Facilitation, the Delphi Technique, Hegelian Dialectic, and more  Dec 2, 2008 NWV News:  FDA Provides Few Details On Its Food Protection Plan  Dec 3, 2008
Henry Lamb:  The Divided States of America  Dec 6, 2008 Toronto Globe and Mail:  Researchers urge shift in environment management  Dec 5, 2008
Pioneer Press:  The Political Outdoors - A disturbing future for our Free Republic  by Ron Parker  Dec 10, 2008
Henry Lamb:  Global governance here we come!   Dec 13, 2008
Federal Times:  Politics over science at Interior  Dec 17, 2008
Henry Lamb:  Our federal republic: Dangling by a thread  Dec 20, 2008
New West:  The two Edward Abbeys  Dec 21, 2008 Albany Democrat Herald Editorial:  Science and its proper role  Dec 24, 2008
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Jim Beers:  Post Check on Liberty- The Senate  Dec 31, 2008 Jim Beers:  3 Scams - The Truth Is Not In Them  Jan 2, 2009
Henry Lamb:  Why freedom won't die in the 21st century  Jan 3, 2009 World Net Daily:  U.S. to break up by 2010?  Jan 5, 2009
Capital Press:  Climate expert hired for Oregon research institute  Jan 6, 2009 NWV News - Jim Kouri:  The Global Poverty Act: Redistributing America's Wealth  Jan 6, 2009
Houston Chronicle:  Trans-Texas Corridor plans dropped after public outcry  Jan 6, 2009 Pioneer Press:  The Political Outdoors - Human Factor In Climate Warming?  Jan 7, 2009
New York Times:  Democrats will push to undo Bush's midnight regulations  Jan 11, 2009 AP:  Wilderness bill moves forward in the Senate  Jan 12, 2009
GovTrack:  S. 22: Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009  Jan 15, 2009 San Francisco Chronicle:  What wild means - legally  Jan 16, 2009
Front Page Magazine:  Obama's Environmental Agenda Jan 16, 2009 White House:  Our New President's Agenda  Jan 20, 2009
Denver Post Editorial:  U.S. House should follow Senate's lead on public-lands bill  Jan 22, 2009
Rocky Mountain News:  Salazar to Interior: `There's a new sheriff in town'  Jan 22, 2009
Environment News Service:  High Ethical Standards Will Rule Interior Department, Salazar Vows  Jan 23, 2009 Environment News Service:  High Ethical Standards Will Rule Interior Department, Salazar Vows  Jan 23, 2009
The Atlantic:  Dirk Kempthorne In 2012?  Jan 23, 2009  Jim Beers:  WWF (Wildlife Word Follies)  Jan 24, 2009
Jim Beers:  Appointments and Rumors of Appointments  Jan 25, 2009 Felice Pace:  "Top-to-bottom" ethical review at Interior  Feb 5, 2009
AP:  Vilsack: Food safety should be under one agency  Feb 6, 2009 James Buchal:  How Government Destroyed Science in Columbia River Dam Decisionmaking  Jan 31, 2009
Mother Jones:  As U.S. Tightens Environmental Rules, Cash-Strapped States Loosen Them  Feb 19, 2009 Grand Junction Sentinel Opinion:  How do we manage to manage public lands?  Feb 27, 2009 
The Coloradoan Opinion:  Don't ignore hydroelectric  Feb 28, 2009 Los Angeles Times:  Supreme Court Decision Could Gut Clean Water Act  Mar 2, 2009
New York Times:  Supreme Court limits advocacy groups' standing to challenge public lands rule  Mar 3, 2009  Denver Natural Resources Law Examiner:  Supreme Court issues opinion on environmental challenges  Mar 5, 2009
Environmental Group Combined Press Release:  Conservation groups will challenge the removal of essential federal protections  Mar 9, 2009l CNN International:  Obama moves to separate politics and science  Mar 9, 2009
Fox News:  Rain or Shine, Environmentalists Want to Control Us  Mar 11, 2009  New York Times:  Public Lands Bill Defeated in House  Mar 11, 2009
Oregonian:  US House Defeat of Wilderness Bill Stuns Supporters  Mar 12, 2009
National Center for Policy Analysis:  Property Rights Linked to Economic Security?  Mar 11, 2009
New York Times:  Visalia Journal - Farmers Lead a Bid to Create 2 Californias  Mar 13, 2009
Jim Beers:  Two Socialists  Mar 26, 2009 Washington Post:  New Administration Reversing Course on Many Environmental Policies  Mar 30, 2009
Joan Veon:  Planning the Steps to World Government  April 3, 2009  Western Caucus News:  Members of Congress stand up to defend western and rural economies  Mar 26, 2009
Pork:  Permanent Conservation Easement Incentives  April 6, 2009 Forbes:  Public Land Mismanagement  April 7, 2009
Frosty Wooldridge:  How Can You Kill a Planet? And Still Live On It!, Part 1  April 13, 2009

Frosty Wooldridge:  Blind Spot: Save a Planet and Live on It, Part 2  April 17, 2009

Investor's Business Daily Editorial:  Population Alarmists  April 13, 2009
Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett:  Collatralizing Our National Debt  April 17, 2009 USGS/DOI Press Release:  What’s Protected, What’s Not: New Protected Areas Database for United States’ Land Now Available  April 21, 2009
Ethan Huff:  Food Freedom is under Assault, H.R. 759 Worse than H.R. 875  April 2009 Land Rights Network Alert:  Congress Moves To Seize Control Of All U.S. Waters  April 8, 2009
Henry Lamb:  Welcome to USSR, 1920   May 2, 2009 Vicky Davis The Scourge of Collectivism  May 2, 2009
Investor's Business Daily:  What Green Means  May 5, 2009
New Scientist:  Views: Our planet is overcrowded  May 15, 2009 Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah):  Time to control our federal landlords of the West  May 8, 2009
Nancy Levant:  Species Control: D.C.-Style  May 16, 2009
Mountain States Legal Foundation:  NEPA Needs U.S. Supreme Court Intervention  June 1, 2009
Pioneer Press Opinion:  Few Rule the Many  May 3, 2009 Welda McKinley Grider:  A Letter from a New Mexican Rancher to Wildearth Guardians  June 12, 2009
Los Angeles Times:  Western states want reins on federal power  June 16, 2009 Julie Kay Smithson:  If it's wet, is it land?  June 17, 2009
Ducks Unlimited Magazine:  Senate makes next step toward protecting America's waters  June 18, 2009
DowJones:  Environment Grps Praise Senate Panel For New Clean Water Bill  June 18, 2009 American Chronicle:  Inhofe Leads Opposition to "Biggest Bureaucratic Power Grab in a Generation"  June 18, 2009
AP:  Idaho senator promises to filibuster Clean Water legislation  June 19, 2009 Los Angeles Times:  Obama's environmental decisions baffle supporters  June 21, 2009
AP:  Conservation wave builds in the West  June 21, 2009 Philip Tabas, general counsel, The Nature Conservancy:  Planet Saver - One Million Environmentalists  June 23, 2009
Roni Bell Sylvester:  Answer to President Barack Obama’s request for us to “roll up our sleeves and become a volunteer.”    June 23, 2009 Julie Kay Smithson:  "Premises" versus "Property" and Producer versus Processor  June 23, 2009
Natural News:  Food Safety Bill HR 2749 Requires Immediate Opposition  June 24, 2009
National Law Journal:  High court losses stun environmentalists  June 29, 2009
Washington, DC Examiner:  Congress is killing US softly with too many laws and red tape  June 29, 2009 New York Times:  Obama Cabinet Plans a Listening Tour of Rural America  June 30, 2009
The Daily Yonder:  What Happens When You Don't Own the Land  July 3, 2009
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Press Release:  U.S. EPA Administrator Jackson Takes New Steps to Improve Water Quality  July 6, 2009
Water Online:  EPA Takes New Steps To Improve Water Quality  July 6, 2009
Introduced in the US House:  HR 2749 -  Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009  June 8, 2009
Global Research:  Destroying America's Family Farm: HR 2749. A Stealth Agribusiness Empowering Act  July 10, 2009 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Press Release:  U.S. EPA Administrator Jackson Takes New Steps to Improve Water Quality  July 6, 2009
Nancy Levant:  The New American's Manifesto  July 10, 2009 Fox News:  Range War In the West  July 10, 2009
Seattle PI:  Views: Can you be an environmentalist and a NIMBY?  July 12, 2009 Bellingham Herald:  The value of farmland - Whatcom County sets goal of saving farmland, but faces tough choices  July 13, 2009
Pioneer Press Column:  The sleeping giant has awoken  July 15, 2009 New York Times:  Disillusioned Environmentalists Turn on Obama as Compromiser  July 10, 2009
GAO Testimonies:  Clean Water Infrastructure:  Design Issues and Funding Options for a Clean Water Trust Fund, by Anu K. Mittal, director, natural resources and environment, before the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.  GAO-09-893T  July 15, 2009
Tom DeWeese:  Firestorm in Spokane  July 20, 2009
 
 
Pioneer Press Letter:  Obamagic  July 22, 2009 
Jim Beers:  Save MY Rights Please  July 24, 2009 Herald and News Opinion:  New clean water bill should clarify federal law, not muddy it  July 26, 2009
Dr. Laurie Roth:  Obama is rapidly turning this country into a totalitarian regime  July 23, 2009 Columbia Basin Bulletin Shorts:  Climate Change Threats To Western Water; Benefits Of Modest Fisheries Reductions; Oregon Conference On Salmon Conservation; Klamath Watershed Restoration Projects  July 24, 2009
Minocqua, WI Lakeland Times:  Coordination: Old concept, bold new weapon for property rights  July 24, 2009
National Cattlemen's Beef Association Press Release:  Water Restoration Act Threatens Ranchers, Small Business  July 26, 2009
Herald and News Opinion:  New clean water bill should clarify federal law, not muddy it  July 26, 2009 American Tax Reform:  A Picture Is Worth A 1000 Words - When it comes to private property rights  July 24, 2009
Riverside, CA Press-Enterprise:  As many as 1 million fish suffocate at Lake Elsinore  July 27, 2009 American Farm Bureau:  Regulations Slippery if Extended to Everything That's Wet  July 27, 2009
NWV News:  House Set to Vote on Fast-Tracked "Food-Safety" Bill  July 28, 2009
Washington Post:  Prodding the Liberal Agenda With a Pitchfork  July 24, 2009
Farm Wars:  The Jackasses did it……HR 2749 the Seizure of the US food supply and production passed the House  July 31, 2009
Truth About Trade & Technology:  Brasher:  House bill's land use unsettles farming, food costs  Aug 4, 2009
Julie Kay Smithson:  Parallel Universe, Part One: When Two Worlds Collide – Ranching and Litigation  Aug 5, 2009 Pioneer Press Opinion:  What's your thinking?  Aug 5, 2009
Capital Press Editorial: 'Food, Inc.' ignores other side  Aug 6, 2009
Beef Magazine:  The Omnivore’s Delusion   Aug 10, 2009
Beef Magazine:  Retail industry grows as ranchers fall  Aug 10, 2009
Julie Kay Smithson:  Who loves ya, baby? - What sage grouse really need and want  Aug 11, 2009
Doreen Hannes:  HR 2749 - Welcome to the Global Plantation  Aug 14, 2009   
Julie Kay Smithson:  Get the picture? - Who stands to gain when orchards of fruit and nut trees, vineyards groaning 'neath the weight of plumping grapes and fields ripening with summer crops, are all rendered EXTINCT due to water shutoff?  July 14, 2009 Denver Post:  Redford joins call to conserve the West  Aug 14, 2009
Denver Post Guest Opinion The Clean Water Act by Peter O'Tool  Aug 15, 2009  Capital Press:  Common sense goes begging  Aug 21, 2009
Time Magazine:  Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food  Aug 21, 2009
Washington Examiner Editorial:  Human needs should come first in environmental policy  Aug 23, 2009 Washington Examiner Opinion:  Housing depression headed our way by Hugh Hewitt  Aug 24, 2009
Bill Sardi:  Days Away From Economic Chaos?  Aug 24, 2009
Worthington Daily Globe:  Who speaks for family farmers?  Aug 19, 2009
Las Vegas Review - Journal:  EDITORIAL: 'Preserving' everything but man  Aug 24, 2009 K. Lynn Humphreys:  The truth about the West Side farmers  Aug 2009
Wired Science Old American Dams Quietly Become a Multibillion-Dollar Threat  Aug 25, 2009 US News and World Report:  New Tools for Sustainable Farming  Aug 27, 2009
Karen Budd Falen:  Private Property and Eminent Domain  Aug 27, 2009
InfoWars:  The Move to Depopulate the Planet  Aug 27, 2009
 
Family Farm Alliance:  August 2009 "Monthly Briefing"  Aug 31, 2009
Denver Post:  Ag secretary nominates Colorado man for natural resources post  Sept 11, 2009 Mary Starrett:  HR 2749: The Food Safety Act - The Pale Horse  Sept 12, 2009
American Spectator:  Goodbye, Number Five  Sept 15, 2009
 
Stockton Record:  Wetlands numbers already for birds  Sept 16, 2009
111th Congress:  H.Res. 748 - The Founding Fathers’ Property Rights Resolution  Sept 17, 2009
Denver Post:  Salazar making good on his promise to clean up Interior Dept.  Sept 22, 2009 High Country News:  If you want to support wildlife, support ranching   Sept 17, 2009
Reuters:  World food output must rise 70 percent by 2050: FAO  Sept 23, 2009 Brother Gregory Williams:  Control the Water, Control the Population  Sept 25, 2009
Jim Beers:  The American Tragedy  Sept 25, 2009 Jim Beers:  Modern Crime  Sept 25, 2009
Jim Beers:  Frankenstein  Sept 26, 2009 Merced, CA Sun-Star Opinion:  Mike Tharp: New sticker reads, 'Save the humans'  Sept 26, 2009
Santa Maria, CA Times Opinion:  Eco-rules pose major threat  Sept 27, 2009 Budd Falen Law Offices, L.L.C.:  Environmental Litigation and Attorneys Fees  Sept 15, 2009
Lakeland Times:  Feingold's clean water bill swims into strong currents of opposition  Sept 29, 2009 Family Farm Alliance:  September 2009 "Monthly Briefing"  Sept 30, 2008
Family Farm Alliance:  September 2009 Family Farm "Water Review"  Sept 30, 2009 Budd Falen Law Offices, L.L.C.:   Follow-up To Attorney Fees/Litigation Information  Sept 30, 2009
San Francisco Examiner:  Environmental organizations are biting the hand that feeds them  Oct 1, 2009 Baxter Black:  Food is life’s essential need  Oct 1, 2009
The New Republic:  Aquacalypse Now - The end of fish  Sept 28, 2009 Denver Post Opinion:  Clearing up the Clean Water Act  Oct 4, 2009
Seattle Times:  Downstream from dam, valley residents and businesses prepare for worst  Oct 4, 2009 Asheville, NC Citizen-Times Environmentalists put good sense on the endangered list  Oct 5, 2009
Julie Kay Smithson:  Parallel Universe, Part Two: When Two Worlds Collide – Justice and ‘equal access to justice’  Oct 14, 2009 GAO Report:  Food Safety: Agencies Need to Address Gaps in Enforcement and Collaboration to Enhance Safety of Imported Food. GAO-09-873  Sept 15, 2009
New York Times:  EPA promises stricter enforcement of Clean Water Act  Oct 16, 2009
National Hydropower Association:  Hydro Works For America  Oct 13, 2009
Jim Kouri:  Congress Moves To Control All U.S. Water  Oct 20, 2009
New York Times:  Study Bolsters a Push for More Hydropower  Oct 21, 2009
Oregonian:  "Poster girl" of OR property rights wins case  Oct 22, 2009
Capital Press Editorial:  Taxpayers get the tab for lawsuits  Oct 22, 2009
Edwin X. Berry:  How They Are Turning Off the Lights in America  Oct 24, 2009
John Birch Society:  Range Wars Over the Lands of the American West  Oct 30, 2009
Los Vegas Review Journal Opinion:  Clean Water Act 'fix' has major ramifications for state  Nov 15, 2009
New York Times:  Lawsuit Abuse Charge by Western Lawmakers Enrages Enviro Groups  Nov 19, 2009
FoxNews.com:  Tracking Your Taxes: Americans Spend Millions for Environmental Groups to Sue the Government  Nov 19, 2009 Western Business Roundtable Press Release:  Business Group Calls for Halt to Taxpayer Subsidies of Rich Environmental Groups Until Public Accounting Done  Nov 20, 2009
Capital Press:  Hage estate wins again  Nov 21, 2009 Victoria, TX Advocate Opinion:  Giving thanks to farmers, ranchers and Billy Buzek - "Farmers and ranchers provide food and habitat for 75 percent of the nation's wildlife."  Nov 22, 2009
Pioneer Press Letter:  To the people of America  Nov 25, 2009 Pioneer Press:  The history of the Shasta Tribe  Dec 16, 2009
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Are There Times When Restoring Natural Water Flows Can Cause Ecological Harm?  Jan 8, 2010 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  'Early Bird' Basin Water Supply Forecast For Spring, Summer Shows Below Average  Jan 8, 2010
The Wilderness Society Press Release:  America’s Public Lands Managed by Split Personality in 2000s  Dec 30, 2009 
CBS News:  America's Dwindling Water Supply  Jan 8, 2010
Northwest Fishletter:  Columbia Basin Snowpack Feels El Niño  Jan 22, 2010 Northwest Fishletter:  Northwest Snowpack Up Since 1970s  Jan 22, 2010
Pacific Legal Foundation Press Release:  PLF to Sponsor Water Crisis Town Hall at World Ag Expo in Tulare, February 11, 2010  Jan 22, 2010
E&E News:  Clean Water Act fix may not be navigable in 2010  Jan 25, 2010
Family Farm Alliance:  January 2010 Monthly Briefing  Jan 27, 2010
Capital Press:  Dams in doubt - Fish, climate change and passage of time take toll on water infrastructure  Feb 11, 2010
Capital Press:  Despite dam woes, hydropower grows - New low-impact technology allows efficient retrofits of existing structures  Feb 11, 2010 
Audubon California Press Release:  Klamath settlement could benefit California’s migratory birds  Feb 18, 2010
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Latest Columbia Basin Runoff Forecast Has Flows Dropping To 46th Lowest In 50 Years  Feb 26, 2010 Tom DeWeese:  Destroying America from Inside the Classroom  Feb 27, 2010 
New York Times:  Court decisions muddy effect of Clean Water Act  Mar 1, 2010 Tom DeWeese:  Sound the Alarm Against Sustainable Development Part 1 of 2  Mar 1, 2010
Medford Mail Tribune:  Mountain snow level down  Mar 2, 2010 Capital Press Editorial:  ESA lacks key ingredient  Mar 11, 2010
Peace and Conflict Monitor:  Dams: providing or destroying water security?  April 9, 2010
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  New Study Shows Rising Water Temperatures In US Streams and Rivers  April 9, 2010 KDRV TV, Medford:  Study blames Klamath River salmon deaths on parasite  May 12, 2010
Capital Press:  Small farmers balk at food safety rules  May 13, 2010 Manteca Bulletin Editorial:  Backing off on environmental perfection  May 20, 2010
Family Farm Alliance:  May Family Farm "Water Review" - A Layman's Overview of California Water Rights  May 27, 2010 Prison Planet.com:  Agenda 21 Alert: Science and Sewage  May 27, 2010
Family Farm Alliance:  Monthly Briefing  May 28, 2010
Capital Press Editorial:  Judge recognizes humans have needs  June 3, 2010 Capital Press:  Farmers use less water than the American public thinks June 3, 2010
CBC BC:  Canada, US food safety rated among world's best  June 3, 2010 Salem Statesman Journal:  Oregon urges phaseout of pollutants  June 3, 2010
New York Times:  The Human Equation in Water Disputes  June 4, 2010 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Report: Scientists Need To Be More Effective At Public Communication  June 4, 2010
Capital Press Editorial:  Beware science-based ignorance  June 6, 2010
Oregon Public Broadcasting:  Conservation Groups Ask Oregon Governor To Save Two Wolves  June 16, 2010  Tom Vilask:  Keeping it local when it comes to management of natural resources  June 21, 2010
Capital Press Commentary:  Wanted: Clean water, no micromanagement  July 8, 2010
Center for Biological Diversity Press Release:  Wolf Recovery Sought Across Country: West Coast, New England, Colorado and Great Plains  July 20, 2010 Press & Sun Bulletin:  Henderson column: States may be sued over wolf introductions  July 28, 2010
US Environmental Protection Agency Press Release:  EPA To Hold Listening Sessions on Potential Revisions to Water Quality Standards Regulation  July 30, 2010  Pacific Legal Foundation:  When Science Isn’t Science, but Politics  July 29, 2010
Ecological Society of America:  Addressing environmental challenges and controversies through science communication  Aug 2, 2010 Family Farm Alliance:  August "Water Review" - Washington State Irrigators Ask Supreme Court to Limit Reclamation's Authority And Restore Rights to Farmers  Aug 4, 2010
Salt Lake City, KSL.com:  BLM document reveals big change in federal land management  Aug 5, 2010 Bureau of Land Management:  BLM's Treasured Landscapes proposal  August 2010
Idaho Senator Mike Crapo:  A monumental threat - Time to curb President's power to create National Monuments  Aug 8, 2010
AP:  USDA plans to require ID for interstate livestock   Aug 8, 2010
HealthNewsDigest.com:  Hydroelectric Dams: The Upsides and Down Sides  Aug 14, 2010
Washington Post:  Economic, other issues stall environmental movement  Aug 30, 2010
American Stewards:  Liberty Matters:  Prepare for the Most Dangerous Session in Congress  Sept 1, 2010 Jim Beers:  Wolves & Cougars (Coming to a County Near You?)  Sept 8, 2010
Jim Beers:  A Question of Wolves - Answering the wrong question  Sept 8, 2010 Jim Beers:  Rural Dominoes - The Domino Theory  Sept 9, 2010
Jim Beers:  Wolves, Guns, Gorillas, & Grouse  Part 1  Sept 12, 2010 Jim Beers:  Wolves, Guns, Gorillas, & Grouse  Part 2  Sept 13, 2010
Environmental Magazine:  EarthTalk: What are the pros and cons of dams?  Sept 6, 2010 Family Farm Alliance:   Family Farm Alliance Joins National Call to Action to Address Freshwater Crisis  Sept 15, 2010
Doreen Hannes:  Milk is a Toxic Substance? Destroying family farms in the name of food safety  Sept 18, 2010  Timothy Baldwin:  Does A Constitution Make a People Free?  Sept 18, 2010
Lewiston Tribune:  Idaho senators at work on legislation to exempt wolves from ESA  Sept 20, 2010 Oregon Wild Press Release:  Oregon Wild Announces New Executive Director, Scott Shlaes - State’s leading conservation group hires sixth leader in 36-year history  Sept 21, 2010 
Redding Record-Searchlight:  Opinion: Even ecological success is tied up in litigation  Sept 24, 2010 Pacific Legal Foundation Press Release If a Property Owner Pays for Water Works, a Property Interest Attaches - Grant County Black Sands Irrigation District v. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation  Sept 23, 2010 
Bemidji Pioneer, MN:   Landowners oppose Oberstar, Clean Water Act - A bill authored by U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar goes too far in giving federal government jurisdiction over open waters, say disgruntled landowners  Sept 25, 2010 NWV News:  UN Seeks Control of Planet's Drinking Water  Sept 28, 2010
Bob Waldrop:  SB 510 "Food Safety" - "...it amounts to a major federal power grab over agriculture."  Sept 29, 2010
Capital Press:  Water conservation, efficiency a first step for ag's future  Sept 30, 2010 Capital Press:  Yakima picture dim in light of overuse, state says - Excessive allocation, pumping reduce river's flow  Sept 30, 2010
Family Farm Alliance:  September 2010 Family Farm Alliance "Monthly Briefing"  Sept 30, 2010
 
Truth about Trade & Technology More harsh criticism of EPA at DC forum  Oct 4, 2010
Washington Post:  Ocean census reveals thousands of new species  Oct 4, 2010
 
NBC Montana:  Conservationists Worry How Wolf Legislation Could Affect Endangered Species Act  Oct 4, 2010
Coal Geology:  Four different anti-Endangered Species Act wolf bills proposed in DC  Oct 4, 2010 Deseret News:  Ranchers not just crying wolf  Oct 5, 2010
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Study Shows Freshwater From Rivers Flowing Into Oceans In Greater Amounts Each Year  Oct 9, 2010
Huffington Post:  The Biggest Landowners In America: The Land Report (PHOTOS)  Oct 14, 2010 Los Angeles Times:  Wolf dispute puts Endangered Species Act in political cross-hairs  Oct 18, 2010  
Canadian Free Press:  The Slow Death of the Environmental Movement  Oct 18, 2010 
The Desert Independent Editorial:  BLM Declares Their Land “Non-Public Forums”  Oct 15, 2010
Jim Beers:  "Science" as Dogma  Oct 16, 2010
Jim Beers:  Two Lessons From Montana  Oct 19, 2010
Jim Beers:  To Manage or Not To Manage, That is the Question - Who be Mother Nature?  Oct 20, 2010
Family Farm Alliance:  October 2010 Family Farm "Water Review". Oct 21, 2010
Seattle Times Wolf recovery brings backlash in Congress  Oct 21, 2010 Oregon Public Broadcasting:  Cougar management in the spotlight  Oct 22, 2010
US Fish and Wildlife Service Press Release:  Endangered Species Act Protections Reinstated for Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Population  Oct 26, 2010
Family Farm Alliance:  October 2010 "Monthly Briefing"  Oct 29, 2010
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  This Year’s La Nina Likely To Bring Cold, Moist Jet Streams Into Northwest This Winter  Oct 29, 2010 Denver Post:  Salazar should order BLM to reverse 'no more wilderness' policy  Oct 29, 2010
USGS Press Release:  Most River Flows across the U.S. are Altered by Land and Water Management, Leading to Ecological Degradation  Nov 3, 2010 
Tom DeWeese Greens Can’t Stop Their Scare Tactics  Nov 5, 2010
PlanetSave.com:  Snow Data Now At Our Fingertips  Nov 8, 2010
Family Farm Alliance:  November 2010 "Water Review"  Nov 12, 2010
 
Southwest Farm Press:  Landowners want groundwater as vested property right  Nov 16, 2010
Washington Post Senate votes to open debate on food safety bill  Nov 18,2010 Capital Press:  Stalled food-safety bill moves forward  Nov 18, 2010
Fred Kelly Grant:  The "So-called Food Safety Bill"  Nov 19, 2010
New York Times:  Lawmakers Ponder Massive Water, Lands and Wildlife Bill Before End of Year  Nov 19, 2010
Brazil Times, Indiana:  Thankful for agriculture: America's bounty: Guest Column  Nov 21, 2010 Liberty News Online:  Which Senators Got Paid Off to Support S.510 - The "Food Safety Modernization Act'?  Nov 21, 2010
Christian Science Monitor:  Food safety bill 101  Nov 23, 2010
Reno Gazette-Journal:  Spread of 'devil' weed threatens ranching lifestyle  Nov 28, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle:  US Senate set to vote on rigorous food safety bill  Nov 28, 2010
Herald and News Commentary:  Western water rights come under new attack  Nov 28, 2010 
Fred Kelly Grant:  One more time a hearty few hold off big government "Maxmus"  Nov 30, 2010..  
World Net Daily American food safety gets massive overhaul  Nov 30, 2010
Fred Kelly Grant:  Food Safety Bill will add layer after costly layer of Bureaucracy - But the fight is not over, implementation will require appropriations from the new Congress  Nov 30, 2010
Denver Post Guest Editorial:  GAO report underscores importance of protecting West's water supplies  Dec 17, 2010
New York Times:  Obama administration releases science guidelines  Dec 17, 2010
Los Angeles Times:  Northern Rockies' fight over wolves endangers species act  Dec 20, 2010
Sarah Foster:  Senate Republicans Join Democrats to Pass Food "Safety" Bill  Dec 20, 2010
Family Farm Alliance:  December 2010 "Water Review"  Dec 21, 2010
Christian Science Monitor Senate revives food safety act, sends it to President Obama  Dec 21, 2010
Washington Post:  Group seeks to restore wolves nationwide  Dec 21, 2010
Department of Interior Press Release:  Salazar, Abbey Restore Protections for America's Wild Lands  Dec 23, 2010 
Congressional Western Caucus Press Release:  DOI Delivers More Bad News to the West Just Days Before Christmas  Dec 23, 2010
Washington Post:  Environmentalists plan to redirect strategies  Dec 21, 2010
Dan Bacher:  Brown Will Appoint New Natural Resources Secretary to Replace Lester Snow  Dec 28, 2010
Family Farm Alliance:  December 2010 "Monthly Briefing"  Dec 28, 2010  New York Post:  Property rights conserve the land and the fish‎  Dec 28, 2010
Investers.com:  EPA Rules Will Trump Your Rights  Dec 30, 2010
Denver Post Editorial:  Why was wilderness policy change necessary?  Jan 1, 2011 Wall Street Journal:  Wilderness Policy Stirs Anger From Ranchers, Energy Firms  Dec 30, 2010
Deseret News Opinion:  Wilderness reinventory a cruel joke  Dec 31, 2010 Seattle Times:  Obama to sign bill to improve nation's food safety  Jan 4, 2011
Washington Post:  Food safety law will face funding battle  Jan 4, 2011 Capital Press:  GOP vows to gut safety bill  Jan 6, 2011
Capital Press Editorial:  Congress must sink 'wild' grab  Jan 6, 2011 Los Angeles Times:  Republicans introduce bills to curtail EPA regulation of greenhouse gases  Jan 6, 2011
Lake Stevens, WA Journal:  Interior Dept.'s "Wild Lands" Policy Riles WA Congressman  Jan 7, 2011
McClatchy Newspapers:  Environmentalists fear Hastings will take care of business  Jan 9, 2011
Idaho Governor Butch Otter Press Release:  Governor Urges Interior Secretary to Withdraw "Wild Lands" Order  Jan 13, 2011
Idaho Statesman:  Idaho governor urges Interior secretary to rescind 'wild lands' order  Jan 14, 2011
KTVB, BOISE:  Otter, Farm Bureau want fed land policy withdrawn  Jan 14, 2011
Americans For Tax Reform:  EPA Grants Itself More Powers, Revokes Permit  Jan 14, 2011
Courthouse News Service:  Court Reconsiders Policy on NEPA Suit Interveners  Jan 14, 2011 
Marita K. Noon:  The Job--the true endangered species  Jan 16, 2011
Oregonian:  Obama orders review of regulations  Jan 18, 2011 Casper Star-Tribune: Wyoming governor asks Salazar to rescind 'wild lands' order  Jan 19, 2011
Center for Biological Diversity Press Re;ease:  Landmark Lawsuit Filed to Protect Hundreds of Rare Species From Pesticides  Jan 19, 2011
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Wet, Warm Weather Forces Northwest Dam Operators To Flush Water Downriver  Jan 21, 2011 
Wyoming Governor Matt Mead Press Release:  Governor Mead asks Department of Interior to rescind Wild Lands Order  Jan 18, 2011
Billings Gazette:  Guest opinion: Washington's obsession with land preservation threatens landowners, ranchers   Jan 22, 2011
Reuters:  Rising Northwest hydro output may hurt wind farms  Jan 25, 2011 Capital Press:  Land grab usurps Congress  Jan 27, 2011
Capital Press:  Expert: Food safety law huge burden on FDA  Jan 27, 2011 Capital Press Editorial:  Feds look to their own regulations  Jan 27, 2011
Netright Daily:  Schools Suffer Under Obama’s Land Grabs  Jan 28, 2011
American Farm Bureau Federation:  The politics of water  Jan 28, 2011
New York Times:  Sustain what?  Jan 20, 2011
Family Farm Alliance:  January 2011 "Monthly Briefing"  Jan 31, 2011
WhoWon.com:  Dozens of Federal Lawmakers Oppose New 'Wild Lands' Land-Use Policy  Jan 31, 2011
New York Times:  Smart meters draw fire from left and right in CA   Feb 1, 2011 Oregonian:  Oregon land-use war settles down  Feb 1, 2011
AP:  House GOP Readies Severe New Restrictions On EPA  Feb 1, 2011  Washington Post:  Interior Department issues new policy protecting government scientists  Feb 1, 2011
GVNews:  Center established to 'balance debate' on environment  Feb 1, 2011
American Motorcyclist Association Press Release:  Wild Lands Designation Threatens Access  Feb 1, 2011 
Dixie Press:  Hatch: Stop Obama's War On The West  Feb 1, 2011
Vernal Express:  Officials gear up to fight the feds  Feb 1, 2011 Casper Star-Tribune:  Salazar aide defends 'wild lands' rule  Feb 2, 2011
Billings Gazette:  Park County joins foes of BLM wildlands inventory  Feb 2, 2011 San Francisco Chronicle:  FDA fails to get specific in new food guidelines  Feb 1, 2011
Oregonian:  Oregon land-use war settles down  Feb 1, 2011 New York Times:  EPA to set limits for perchlorate, 16 other chemicals in drinking water  Feb 3, 2011
Capital Press:  Hastings brings Western attitude to key committee - New House natural resources chairman calls for developing oil, gas reserves  Feb 3, 2011
High Country News:  Western court scraps intervention restrictions for enviro lawsuits  Feb 7, 2011 JD Supra, LLC:   “Regulatory Takings” Case From Ninth Circuit Gives Ammunition to Land Owners  Feb 8, 2011
JB Williams:  Montana to introduce broad-based State Nullification Act  Feb 8, 2011 AP:  Oregon lawmaker tells Europeans to butt out  Feb 10, 2011
National Legal and Policy Center:  Why the Indian Bureaucracy Should Be Dismantled  Feb 4, 2011
Capital Press Letter:  It's time to build water storage  Feb 11, 2011 
Capital Press Editorial:  West needs better dams, not fewer  Feb 11, 2011
Natural Resources Defense Council:  With Wolves Under Attack in Congress, We Need Your Help  Feb 11, 2011
Sacramento Bee:  Viewpoints: Changing climate will make coming water crisis even worse  Feb 11, 2011 Boise Idaho Statesman:  Are wolves still ‘'non-essential' in the West?  Feb 14, 2011
The Intel Hub:  Major Food Distributor Sysco: “Immediate Volatile Prices, Expected Limited Availability, and Mediocre Quality at Best”  Feb 13, 2011 Seattle Post Intelligencer:  Billboard seeks leads on OR wolf shooting  Feb 14, 2011
AP:  Montana legislator's bill seeks eminent domain power over federal lands  Feb 16, 2011 Seattle Post Intelligencer:  Cattlemen sue Fish and Wildlife over gray wolves  Feb 16, 2011
PhysOrg.com:  Researchers study 6000-year-long record of drought in the Pacific Northwest  Feb 23, 2011
Jim Beers:  The Recovery and Restoration of Rural America  Feb 23, 2011 Tri-City Herald:  Doc says he'll nix all Snake dam-breaching bills  Feb 24, 2011
Toole, Utah Transcript Bulletin:  Is federal land ownership hurting county?  Feb 24, 2011
National Cattlemen's Beef Association:  Study shows costly consequences of regulating dust   Feb 24, 2011
Grist:  How good is Obama on Western environmental issues?  Feb 26, 2011
New York Times:   Montana, Utah legislators strive to shrug off federal rule  Feb 28, 2011
Rapid City Journal Opinion:  Fairness, consistency would foster compliance  Feb 26, 2011
Jim Beers:  Lessons from Minnesota Wolves -  Somewhere Between a Prairie Home Companion & Fargo  Feb 28, 2011 PCT Magazine:  [Regulatory Update] Surprise! You might have to comply  Feb 28, 2011
Washington Post:  GAO report due out today tallies overlapping government programs  Mar 1, 2011 Natural News:  Food prices to skyrocket, riots could follow, suggests USDA  Mar 1, 2011
GAO Testimony Statement:  Department of the Interior: Major Management Challenges  Mar 1, 2011   Christian Science Monitor:  Interior Department's 'wild lands' policy fodder for 2012 elections   Mar 3, 2011
Washington Independent:  House Republicans: Salazar’s ‘Wild Lands’ order is a ‘War on the West’  Mar 1, 2011 
New York Times:  Wild Lands' Policy Would Allow Limited Development, BLM Chief ...  Mar 3, 2011  AP:  USDA to talk food initiatives at Oregon colleges  Mar 3, 2011
Kitsap, Washington Sun:  Seabury Blair Jr.: Some are misusing the Wilderness Act  Jan 31, 2011
Oil & Gas Journal:  Governors say they weren't consulted about 'wild lands' order  Mar 3, 2011
Great Falls Tribune:  Salazar defends 'Wild Lands' policy  Mar 4, 2011  
Wall Street Journal:  Food Prices Reach Record High  Mar 4, 2011 
Treehugger:  8 Ways the GOP is Trying to Dismantle Environmental Protections  Mar 7, 2011 Family Farm Alliance:  March 2011 Special Conference Edition "Monthly Briefing"  Mar 8, 2011
Los Angles Times:  U.S. House-passed budget bill slashes environmental programs  Mar 8, 2011  WyoFile Sen. John Barrasso: Time to Put Brakes on EPA's Runaway Bureaucrats  Mar 8, 2011
Western Farm Press:  Science sides with agriculture as global population booms  Mar 8, 2011
Cattle Network:  Food prices heading for second-biggest jump in past two decades  Mar 7, 2011     Forbes:  Why World Food Prices Will Keep Climbing  Mar 9, 2011
 
Washington Examiner:  Ron Arnold: Federally funded faked science behind Fish & Wildlife's Mousegate  Mar 10, 2011
CropLife:  EPA Seeks Deadline Extension For Clean Water Act Permits  Mar 11, 2011
Bismarck Farm & Ranch Guide:  Take time to explain farming and ranching to children and adults  Mar 12, 2011 Walt Bones, South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture:  An ear to the ground - telling agriculture's story  Mar 12, 2011  
Capital Press:  CAFOs win EPA lawsuit over Clean Water Act permits  Mar 16, 2011 
Huffington Post:  Chinese Drought Could Cause Global Food Crisis  Mar 16, 2011 New York Times:  Rising gas, food costs cause surge in producer prices  Mar 17, 2011
Earthjustice:  Congress v. Endangered Species - Wolves Up For A Vote  Mar 17, 2011 The Republic:  Law firm representing several environmental groups in wolf lawsuit withdraws ...  Mar 17, 2011
US Fish and Wildlife Service Press Release:  Interior Announces Proposed Settlement of Gray Wolf Lawsuit  Mar 18, 2011 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  USFWS Announces Proposed Settlement Returning Wolf Management To Idaho, Montana  Mar 18, 2011
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Montana 2010 Wolf Report: 8 Percent Increase With 566 Wolves, 108 Packs, 35 Breeding Pairs  Mar 18, 2011 Discover:  Made in China: Our air pollution  Mar 21, 2011
Jim Beers:  Elk & Wolves - Where Have All the Elk Gone?  Mar 21, 2011  New West:  Wolf Settlement Splits Conservation Groups  Mar 21, 2011
National Geographic:  National Geographic offers 'water footprint' calculator on World Water Day  Mar 22, 2011 Helena Independent Record:  Groups question terms of wolf settlement in federal court in Montana  Mar 23, 2011
The Prairie Star:  Wild lands designation will limit accessibility  Mar 23, 2011  Salt Lake Tribune:  Lawsuit challenges new wilderness rules  Mar 23, 2011
New York Times:  Utah Counties File Lawsuit Over BLM Wilderness Policy  Mar 23, 2011 AP:  Wolf hunting deal faces first test before judge  Mar 23, 2011
Deseret News:  Utah groups launch challenge to Salazar's 'wild lands' policy  Mar 24, 2011 Denver Post:  Guest Commentary: BLM wild lands policy deserves praise  Mar 24, 2011
Jim Beers:  What we face - The Map  Mar 24, 2011 
American Farm Bureau Federation:  Who Decides the Future of Farming, Ranching?  Mar 21, 2011 Lubbock, Texas KCBD:  Local landowner warns: Seek legal help when made easement offer  Mar 23, 2011
Bandera, TX County Courier:  New conservation tool controls properties’ future uses  Mar 24, 2011 Seattle PI:  Judge asked to lift federal protections on wolves  Mar 24, 2011 
  Capital Press Editorial:  Distrust clouds EPA  Mar 24, 2011
Salem Statesman Journal:  Practical, frugal approach to OR's environment  Mar 25, 2011 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  International Space Station Scanner Offering New Tools In Monitoring NW Coast, Ocean  Mar 25, 2011  
The Republic:  Alaska Senate resolution seeks lesser regulatory action from feds  Mar 26, 2011 Jim Beers:  How Much Do Wolves Eat?  Mar 30, 2011
Missoula Independent:  What prompted 10 enviro groups to settle on wolves?  Mar 31, 2011
Jim Beers:  Wolves, Roosters & the Constitution  Mar 31, 2011 
Capital Press Guest Opinion:  Proposal threatens progress on water  April 1, 2011
Capital Press:  U.S. House votes to block pesticide permit requirement  April 1, 2011
AP:  Montana Legislature passes bill giving state authority over federal land  April 1, 2011 Natural Resources Defense Council:  GOP-Sponsored Bill Would Bar Groups from Enforcing Our Nation's Environmental Laws  Apr 1, 2011
Washington Examiner Editorial:  Editorial: Don't let Big Green use government to mug taxpayers  Apr 2, 2011 Washington Examiner Editorial:  Secrecy hides taxpayer dollars used in Big Green lawsuits  Apr 3, 2011
AP:  Budget bill removes wolves from endangered list  Apr 9, 2011
Environment News Service Press Release: Federal Budget Deal Strips Protection from Water, Wild Lands, Wolves  Apr 12, 2011 Oregonian:  Making OR farms more (energy) efficient  Apr 13, 2011
New York Times:  EPA tackles environmental justice  Apr 13, 2011 Oregon Rep. Greg Walden:  Statement and release on the inclusion of language in the Continuing Resolution agreement to delist wolves in the western United States  Apr 13, 2011
New York Times:  Budget's Wolf Delisting Opens Pandora's Box of Species Attacks, Enviro Groups Warn  Apr 13, 2011  
New York Times:  Environmental justice initiative offers 'opportunity'  Apr 14, 2011 Jim Beers:  FORECASTING: WOLVES as of 14 April 2011 Apr 15, 2011
AmmoLand.com:  Congress Passes Legislation that Returns Wolf Management to State Fish and Game  Apr 14, 2011 The Spokesman Review:  Budget rider gives states wolf control  Apr 14, 2011
Helena Independent Record:  Eco groups vow to watch wolf delisting  Apr 14, 2011 Courthouse News Service:  More Hunting OK'd in National Wildlife Refuges  Apr 14, 2011
Christian Science Monitor:  Budget bill cuts federal wolf protection. Environmentalists howling.  Apr 16, 2011 Detroit Free Press John Dingell: Dean of US House a force behind pro-environment laws  Apr 16, 2011
Idaho State Rep, Phil Hart:  Federal Wolves – State’s Rights  Apr 16, 2011  
Christian Science Monitor:  World water summit: 2 of 3 people will be 'water insecure' by 2025  Apr 18, 2011
Salt Lake Tribune Opinion:  Public Lands - Deal de-funds BLM inventory  Apr 18, 2011
Salt Lake Tribune:  Budget bill deal pushes public land policy back decades  Apr 19, 2011 
Christian Science Monitor:  True cost of budget deal will be paid in blood – of gray wolves  Apr 19, 2011 Chuck Sylvester:  ‘Eco-activists’ vying for resource control  Apr 21, 2011 
San Francisco Chronicle:  Training next generation of environmental stewards  Apr 22, 2011
Capital Press Editorial:  Farmers, ranchers sees EPA 'myths' differently  Apr 28, 2011 Denver Post:  Guest Commentary: World's food supply gap underscores importance of enhancing farm water supplies  Apr 28, 2011
Family Farm Alliance:  April 2011 "Monthly Briefing"  Apr 28, 2011 Los Angeles Times:  President Obama seeks to extend Clean Water Act protections  Apr 28, 2011
Coalition to Govern America:  Inhofe challenges plans for clean-water guidance  Apr 28, 2011   AP:  Wyoming senator calls changes to Clean Water Act a "power grab"  Apr 29, 2011
 Department of the Interior Press Release:  Interior Releases Report Highlighting Impacts of Climate Change to Western Water Resources  Apr 25, 2011 Pasadena Star-News:  New report says climate change likely to make water more scarce  Apr 30, 2011
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:  “Waters of the U.S.” Proposed Guidance  May 2. 2011
Natural News:  EPA, Army Corps draft new Clean Water Act guidelines that threaten to seize control of all water supplies  May 4, 2011 
AP:  Gray wolves go back to state control  May 4, 2011 Field and Stream:  Wolf Delisted: This Time They Got It Right  May 5, 2011
Jim Beers:  Smoke & Mirrors - Obama administration takes wolves off endangered species list  May 5. 2011 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  USFWS Issues Final Rule Removing Montana, Idaho Wolves From ESA List; States Prepare Hunts  May 6, 2011
Committee on Agriculture & Committee on Natural Resources:  Joint Public Hearing to review the Costs of Federal Regulatory Dysfunction to American Jobs, Agriculture, Health & Species  May 3, 2011
NPR:  Grey Wolves Lose Endangered Status, For Good?  May 7, 2011 
Arizona Republic Letter:  Delisting the gray wolf is offensive  May 7, 2011   
Global Animal:  Activists Battle Wolf Delisting, Say It's Illegal  May 9, 2011
Idaho Statesman:  Idaho legislators press state wildlife agency to set wolf population goal  May 10, 2011 Idaho Statesman:  Idaho, Montana now have to prove they can manage wolves well  May 10, 2011
Environmental Law & Policy Alerts:  EPA Guidance Seeks to Clarify Reach of Clean Water Act  May 10, 2011
Center for Biological Diversity Press Release:  More Wolf-killing Legislation Proposed  May 12, 2011 
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Explaining Washington’s Wolves: Federal De-Listed In East, Still State-Listed, Fed-Listed In West  May 13, 2011 
Beef Magazine:  Define Organic And Sustainable To Me  May 17, 2011 
Western Farm Press:  Supreme Court poised to consider EPA pesticide case  May 17, 2011
 

Huffington Post:  Natural Disasters Could Cost Tens Of Billions In Economic Losses  May 19, 2011 

The Spokesman Review:  Hunters Want 150-Wolf Minimum  May 20, 2011 Twin Falls Times-News:  State firms up wolf-management framework  May 20, 2011
New West:  Wolf Hunting--Popular Misconceptions and Response  May 20, 2011  Frank DuBois:  Rebellion in the states  May 21, 2011
Beverly Eakman:  Why Pupils Need Real Science, Not 'Junk Science'  May 21. 2011
Missoulian:  Debate over how many wolves is enough rages in the West   May 22, 2011
AP:  Farmers, ranchers in the West applaud delisting of wolves   May 22, 2011  GreenAnswers:  Gray Wolf Protection Lifted: Not By Scientific Review  May 24, 2011
Marzulla Law Newsletter:  Federal Circuit Upholds Reclamation Contract Rights Against Government Demands To Reallocate Water  May 25, 2011 Detroit Free Press:  Editorial: Growing wolf population should move past 'endangered' status  May 27, 2011
Jim Beers:  Friends or Foes (Wolves +)  May 27, 2011
Family Farm Alliance:  May Monthly Briefing  May 31, 2011
Jim Beers:  The Silence of the Vets  May 31, 2011
Jim Beers:  Q & A re: Wolves & Tapeworms  June 1, 2011
California Farm Bureau Federation:  End of the Pipeline: Rising water costs lead to uncertain future for farmers  June 1, 2011 Wenatchee World:  WA unveils new wolf plan  June 1, 2011
Los Angeles Times:  Salazar backpedals: Politics stalls wilderness designation, again  June 1, 2011
AP:  Obama abandons wilderness plan  June 2, 2011
Ecotrope:  Conservationists' measured stance on wild lands  June 2, 2011 Capital Press Editorial:  Reveal the invisible price tag  June 3, 2011 
AllVoices:  Efforts underway to grant America's wolves permanent Federal protection  June 4, 2011 Christian Science Monitor:  Wolf wars: Can man and predator coexist in the West?  June 3, 2011
Utah Daily Herald Editorial:  Don't relax on wildlands  June 5, 2011 Denver Post:  Editorial: A fishy reversal on "wild lands" policy  June 5, 2011  
Standard Examiner:  OUR VIEW: Wilderness reversal welcome  June 6, 2011  Fox Business:  Taxpayers Pay People to Sue the US  June 6, 2011
Jim Beers:  Comments on Wolf Working Group Review Draft Alternative 2. Revised Preferred Alternative
 
Draft Wolf Conservation and Management Plan for Washington  June 6, 2011
Julie Kay Smithson:  New DOI Logo  June 8, 2011 Environmental News Service:  American Rivers Head Tapped for Assistant Secretary Fish, Wildlife and Parks  June 8, 2011   
Jim Beers:  Wolf on the Loose  June 9, 2011
Casper Star-Tribune Opinion:  Congress should create a balanced approach to wilderness  June 10, 2011
Dept of Interior Press Release:  Salazar Takes Next Steps In Push for Bipartisan Wilderness Agenda  June 10, 2011
New York Times:  Interior Chief Promises Major Push in Congress for New Wilderness Package  June 10, 2011
CNS News:  Economic Study Shows EPA Regulations Increase Prices, Kill Jobs  June 10, 2011  Eugene Register-Guard:  Full rivers, dams create abundance of power - high flows making more electricity than consumers can use  June 12, 2011
Los Angeles Times:  Western snowpack: Thick snowpack in the West's high country holds water — and potential peril  June 12, 2011 Idaho Statesman:  Wyoming lawmakers' bills want to cap attorneys' fees in federal lawsuits  June 13, 2011
Op Ed News:  Another Death Nail for Democracy Kills 1700 Endangered Wolves  June 13, 2011 Washington Times:  White House to cut access to half of federal websites  June 13, 2011
York Times-News Editorial:  Time to hold EPA accountable  By Senator Mike Johanns  June 15, 2011
Tom DeWeese:  Attack of the NGOs  June 14, 2011 
Off Road Hub:  U.S. interior secretary launches new plan to designate Wilderness  June 14, 2011
Arizona Republic:  Federal legislation pits environment vs. security  June 15, 2011 New York Times:  Conflict Over Northern Rockies Delisting for Wolves Extends to Pacific Northwest  June 16, 2011
Wallowa County Cheiftain:  EDITORIAL: Cooperation trumps blame in efforts to solve depredation  June 16, 2011
Jim Beers:  To The Pro-Wolf Media - Too Clever by Half  June 19, 2011
New York Times:  House Panel Fast-Tracks Bill to Divest EPA of Regulatory Power Over Water  June 22. 2011  New York Times:  EPA warns House bill would 'overturn' clean water law  June 23, 2011
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  10-Year Study Of Top Predators In California Current Could Help Develop Ocean Protection Strategies  June 24, 2011  
Spokesman Review:   Wolf's delisting could imperil other species  June 27, 2011
Great Falls Tribune:  Some say delisting wolves sets bad precedent  June 27, 2011 
Human Events:  Disorder at the Border  June 27, 2011  AP:  Opinion varied on wolf management  June 27, 2011
Family Farm Alliance:  June Monthly Briefing  June 29, 2001 
Idaho Mountain Express and Guide:  Scientists: Remove Snake River dams   June 30, 2011   Jim Beers:  Good News, Bad News  June 30, 2011
Dept of Interior Press Release:  Salazar Applauds Senate Confirmation of Daniel M. Ashe as New Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service  June 30, 2011 Public News Service:  OR Wolf Bill Eyed in Idaho  June 30, 2011 
The Republic Wolf meeting between Salazar, Ashe, Mead set for Thursday in Cheyenne  July 1, 2011
Jim Beers:  Neither a Lawyer Nor Scientist Be  July 1, 2011
 
Jim Beers:  To Fish or Cut Bait?  July 2, 2011
Jim Beers:  A Worthy Target - Bond v. U.S.  July 3. 2011
Jim Beers:  Speaking of Species, Speaking of Wolves  July 4, 2011
Jonathan Emord, Attorney:  The Meaning of Independence Day  July 4, 2011
Jim Beers:  Wolves and Deadly Disease  July 5, 2011
U.S. Department of the Interior:  Law Library Spokesman Review:  Fourth breeding wolf pack confirmed in Washington  July 5, 2011
Seattle Times:  Call of the wild: wolves and grizzlies in Washington state  July 6, 2011   House Appropriations Committee:  Appropriations Committee Releases the Fiscal Year 2012 Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill  July 7, 2011
TreeHugger:  DOI Appropriations Bill Is Declaration of War On America Basic  July 7, 2011  The Hill:  Appropriators move bill sending strong ‘message’ to EPA  July 7, 2011
College of William & Mary:  Beijing conference explores property rights on a global scale  July 7, 2011
Jim Beers:  Animal Attacks as Metaphor  July 7, 2011
Sheridan Media:  (Wyoming) Governor and Feds Agree in Principal on Wolf Management  July 8, 2011
Oregonian:  Broad interests voice opinions on ocean policy  July 8, 2011
Jim Beers:  A Propaganda Lesson - Bear Propaganda  July 8, 2011   TreeHugger:   New Wyoming Wolf Management Plan Proposes Killing Half of States' Wolves  July 8, 2011
Natural Resources Defense Council:  Why We Need Judicial Review: The (Newest) Wolf Rider  July 8, 2011 Christian Science Monitor:  South's 'extreme drought' could be felt at supermarkets soon  July 8, 2011
Columbia Basin Herald:  Wolves, other wild critters abound  July 8, 2011 Seattle Times A summer of counting pups and hunting hair  July 8, 2011
Inside Tucson Business:  Tucson: the environmental litigation factory capitol of America  July 8, 2011 New York Times:  An Advocate for Hunters Speaks About Wolves  July 8, 2011  
Brandon Smith:  The Essential Rules Of Liberty  July 6, 2011
Jim Beers:  Promise Her Anything - We Wanted The Moon  July 10, 2011
DC Daily Caller Editorial:  Recent Supreme Court decision a major blow to environmentalists  July 12, 2011 
EPA Statement:  Office of Mgmt. & Budget: Statement of Administration Policy: H.R. 2018 - Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act  July 12, 2011 John Steele Gordon:  Obama: Unneeded Income Belongs to the Government  July 12, 2011   
Politico:  House votes to block EPA on water pollution  July 13, 2011 McClatchy Newspapers:  U.S. House Republicans seek to limit environmental laws   July 14, 2011
Capital Press:  Farm funds sliced by lawmakers  July 14, 2011
NOAA News:   Annual stock report shows steady progress toward rebuilding  July 14, 2011
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  USFWS Pacific Region Appoints Assistant Regional Director For Science Applications  July 15, 2011 
Ag Weekly:  Groups Applaud Work to Delist Remaining Wolf Populations  July 15, 2011
Julie Kay Smithson:  Save Our Farmers Fishermen Timberers Ranchers Miners Recreationists Freedom!  July 17, 2011
Western Farm Press: