‘Coywolves’ a product of evolution

Nicely wrapped newsppaper article on what many people refer to as the Estern coyote.

It’s getting harder to see PA’s once vast forests through their fragments

The state government’s decision to basically roll over and let natural gas drillers have their way on public land is the storyline here.

Millions of pounds of dead carp for sell in Utah

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/us/27carp.html?_r=2

Vermont ATV rule faces vote

And the Green Mountain State’s leaders should say NO to the proposal of allowing ATV traffic on state-powned public land. Period. Here’s an article about the pending vote from the Burlington, Vt., Free-Press.

Wyo. sets wildlife guidelines for wind developers

Many well-meaning people, including me, favor alternative-energy sources like wind. But there are places to put such wind farms and places not to put them. This article looks at what is taking place in Wyoming.

Aerial-gunning foes ask Obama to ban practice

This seems like a fairly cut-and-dry thing. Good luck to the petitioners. Their target (no pun intended) is the sort of thing that ex-gubbernur Sarah Palin might champion.

Seismic rumbles in the forest

The Marcellus shale drilling debacle (pollution vs. fish).

Museum of Fly Fishing claims not to be political?

Read the sordid tale here.

Voracious, alien invader nearing Lake Michigan

I heard this news on this morning’s NPR Morning Edition.

Quote of the day

“We were just having a hard time managing that area — we had a lot of illegal dumping, drug use, keggers. It’s surrounded by subdivisions and we were worried about fires.“

Rick Hotaling, Bureau of Land Management field manager in Butte, Mont., about the BLM’s new travel plan in Montana that closed many miles of trails in the Scratchgravel Hills area near Helena.
- Montana Standard