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Forest Service fuel reduction projects to move forward (Ravalli Republic)
DARBY - The Bitterroot National Forest is moving forward on three projects designed to reduce fuels and restore forest lands, including a large scale effort just out Darby’s backdoor. Protection still crucial for grizzly recovery (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Just 1 percent of the early 19th Century population of grizzly bears in the "lower 48" states remains: Do we start shooting grizzlies again? The new faces of Ravalli County extension (Ravalli Republic)
There are some new faces in the Ravalli County Extension Office. Following in the recent retirement footsteps of Rob Johnson, who served as the county’s extension agent for 36 years, the extension office is moving forward, with some new name tags. E. Edward Houghton (Baltimore Sun)
With his wife, the philanthropist, thoroughbred horse breeder and fox hunter raised more than 40 stakes winners. E . Edward Houghton, a prominent thoroughbred horse breeder and fox hunter, died Sunday of pulmonary fibrosis at Buckingham Farm, his Chestertown home. He was 67. Trampling the Roadless Travesty (Flathead Beacon)
In case you missed it, on Aug.12 in Cheyenne, federal Judge Clarence Brimmer issued a permanent injunction against the Clinton Administration’s so-called “roadless rule.” The roadless rule, of course, was the “most significant public lands measures of the last century,” according to the Wilderness Society. Or, the biggest political con job ever … as Judge Brimmer wrote: “The Forest Service, ...
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