Keweenaw Bay Indian Community member Charlotte Loonsfoot received a 30-day delay of sentence on a misdemeanor trespass charge involving a May protest of the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company at Eagle Rock near the Yellow Dog River. I learned about this from the blog, Stand for the Land. Loonsfoot pleaded no contest to the charge and [...]
Do you know that the Eastern United States has wild horses? The Outer Banks’ wild horses, some of the last wild horses in the Eastern United States, live on a stretch of barrier island. A boom in vacation homes in the past 25 years in this remote place has seen the mustangs confined to a [...]
The new Wildlife Postage Stamp bill is on it’s way! A huge thank you to the World Wildlife Fund for creating this legislation. According to the World Wildlife Fund website, the Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Act directs the U.S. Postal Service to offer a premium-priced stamp above the standard first-class rate and dedicates the additional revenue raised [...]
National Public Lands Day, Saturday, September 25, 2010. National Public Lands Day (NPLD) is the nation’s largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance the public lands Americans enjoy. For those of you who want more information, I’ve posted their press release below. Thousands Pitch In at Volunteer Events for National Public Lands Day Service, [...]
Do you care about keeping our Great Lakes and oceans clean? The International Coastal Cleanup 2010 from the Ocean Conservancy is this Saturday and you can help! The Ocean Conservancy International Coastal Cleanup, in partnership with organizations and individuals across the globe, engages people to remove trash and debris from the world’s beaches and waterways, [...]
It’s National Forest Week in Canada! I don’t know about you, but Canada is one of my favorite countries for exploring the outdoors. I even came head to head with a cow moose in a shallow stream when I was mountain biking in northern Ontario years ago! I love the rock outcroppings, vast amount of open [...]
Eddie the crow stars in our new DVD, First Snow in the Woods: The Movie (watch the short movie trailer to see Eddie). Did you know that crows are smart? I did some research online and discovered the fascinating article, “London Zoo: Crows are smart and social“. Did you know that crows have been seen dropping food [...]
2011 marks the centennial of the Weeks Act. The law protected rivers and watersheds in the eastern United States from development and exploitation. Congressman John Weeks from Massachusetts introduced the bill proposing the federal government buy lands near headwaters of rivers. These lands would be permanently maintained as national forests to protect navigable rivers and our [...]
The Nature Conservancy has reached an agreement to buy 1,270 acres along the Willamette River that could have been developed for sand and gravel mining. In the article “The Nature Conservancy to buy 1,270 acres along Willamette River from Eugene family“, the Wildish family agreed to a purchase price of $23.4 million for the property. “There [...]
Kennecott Minerals’ mining permit does not authorize construction or installation of power lines along AAA road, according to “Unlawful Utility Installation: Kennecott Fails to Ammend Permit” from SaveTheWildUP.org. In a bold move today, their contracted company, “Great Lakes” began to bury power cable along this rural by-way. According to the article, no amendments have been [...]
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