NEC weighs stance on Klamath agreement
(CALIFORNIA) -- Scientific and legal reviews commissioned by the Northcoast Environmental Center may have the environmental group reconsidering its position not to support the Klamath River settlement agreement hatched earlier this year.
NEC weighs stance on Klamath agreement
(WASHINGTON, DC) -- Scientific and legal reviews commissioned by the Northcoast Environmental Center may have the environmental group reconsidering its position not to support the Klamath River settlement agreement hatched earlier this year.
Natives Won’t Fish Sockeye
(CANADA) -- First Nations people in the Port Alberni area won’t be fishing for sockeye unless the run size is nearly twice the 150,000 expected.
10 gill nets found
(MINNESOTA) -- Recovery of missing tribal gill nets is continuing, according to Charlie Rasmussen of the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission. To date, 10 of the original 15 nets that went missing when ice blew in to Garrison Bay last week have been recovered.
2008 fire season underway at various locations
(ARIZONA) -- The 2008 fire season for the Navajo Nation's firefighters is underway. The Navajo Hot Shots left for the South Tularosa fire on the Mescalero Apache Reservation on May 2, according to Calvin Becenti, coordinator for the Navajo Scouts.
U.S. polar bear decision condemned in North
(CANADA) -- Condemnation came swiftly from Canada's North to Wednesday's decision by the U.S. government to list polar bears as a threatened species, as Inuit groups and northern politicians denounced the bears' new status.
Bear listing endangers Wyoming, Barrasso says
(WYOMING) -- Protecting polar bears under the Endangered Species Act could cripple Wyoming's economy and threaten the well-being of the country, U.S. Sen. John Barrasso asserted Wednesday.
EDITORIAL: The Threatened Polar Bear
(WASHINGTON, DC) -- INTERIOR SECRETARY Dirk Kempthorne held true to the letter of the law in the Endangered Species Act and announced yesterday that the polar bear will be listed as a "threatened" species. Its habitat -- Arctic sea ice -- is disappearing because of global warming.
Clean-Air Rules Protecting Parks Set to Be Eased
(WASHINGTON, DC) -- The Bush administration is on the verge of implementing new air quality rules that will make it easier to build power plants near national parks and wilderness areas, according to rank-and-file agency scientists and park managers who oppose the plan
DORREEN YELLOW BIRD: Let us live lightly on the Earth
(NORTH DAKOTA) -- There’s a never-ending search in Grand Forks for a place to put our refuse. The response has been “Not in my backyard”; and, unfortunately, we’ve heard that a time or two in the past few years.
Polar bear added to endangered species list
(WASHINGTON, DC) -- The Bush administration today designated the polar bear as threatened with extinction, making the big arctic bear, whose fate clings to shrinking sea ice, the first creature added to the endangered species list primarily because of global warming.
"Red is Green"
(CALIFORNIA) -- Joanelle Romero ("The Girl Called Hatter Fox") is touting a new PSA to do what the "crying Indian" one did for the previous generation.
Lower Columbia steelhead fishing season is delayed
(OREGON) -- Lower than expected returns of Columbia River spring chinook salmon have delayed the opening of a recreational steelhead fishery scheduled to open Friday from Buoy 10 to the Interstate 5 Bridge.
State makes erosion in villages a priority
(ALASKA) -- State officials say they are ready to take a leadership role in protecting coastal villages threatened by the sea, committing millions of dollars in the state budget to a new list of priority erosion-control projects.
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