An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Native Habitat: Preserving the Wetlands of the World
Posted on June 20, 2022 | No Comments - Solidarity Actions on Climate Justice – Stopping Pipelines and Dirty Banks
Posted on June 13, 2022 | 1 Comment - Climate Change in the Desert with Ecologist James Cornett
Posted on June 5, 2022 | 1 Comment - 30 Days of Wearing My Trash with Rob Greenfield
Posted on May 29, 2022 | No Comments - Reforest the Earth: Planting Old Growth Trees in Fight Against Climate Change
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
Wyoming Archive
Protecting the Sage-Grouse in a Sea of Natural Gas
Posted on September 15, 2015 | No CommentsWhile stopping short of full endangered species protections for the Greater Sage-Grouse, the Obama-era Fish and Wildlife Service implemented land use plans to restrict energy development and grazing in the expanse of northwestern U.S. desert called the Sagebrush Sea, depicted in a 2015 documentary. The Trump Interior Department attempted to amend that plan to open up more commercial activities. We feature here an essay on Wyoming's core plan attempts to salvage the state's last populations in a landscape dominated by energy development.Living With Wolves: Science Must Inform Politics
Posted on July 22, 2014 | 1 CommentReviled by ranchers and hunters, managed through "harvesting" by state wildlife agencies, with ardent conservationists its last hope, the gray wolf has cut a controversial wake in the North American landscape ever since it was reintroduced from Canada in 1995. Watch the film on Earth Focus.Wolves Forsaken By Wildlife Agencies, Hunters and Ranchers
Posted on June 11, 2013 | 3 CommentsPresident Obama's Department of the Interior announced the national delisting of all wolves except the Mexican wolf. Prominent conservationists argue this is wrong-headed because (1) the wolf isn’t really recovered, and (2) Existing state management is so bad that the “recovered” population will soon decline to nothing but a tiny token population.Wolf Wars: Anti-Science Haters Propose Ending All US Protections
Posted on March 27, 2013 | 1 CommentWestern environmental groups oppose the anti-scientific "political" Endangered Species delisting of gray wolves across the U.S. by Fish and Wildlife Service. Reduced wolf numbers will reduce positive ecological effects of these top predators and permit barbaric hunting methods.George Wuerthner: Habitat Conservation, Not Hunting, Saves Grizzly Bears
Posted on January 4, 2013 | 1 CommentWildlife Agencies advocate hunting helps grizzly recovery. The best available science, however, suggests predators including bears, wolves, mountain lion and coyotes have intricate social interactions that are disrupted or damaged by indiscriminate killing from hunters and trappers. Habitat protection is the main way to protect the fledgling population of grizzly bears as well as avoid human-bear conflicts.Grizzly Bears and Humans: Habitat Protection Ensures Coexistence
Posted on September 2, 2011 | No CommentsThe paths of grizzly bears and humans often collide, with fatal consequences for both parties. Despite protected lands such as national parks, the former's survival depends upon establishing roaming corridors across private land and highways. The Vital Ground Foundation is doing just that.Fracking Study: Contamination Happens
Posted on August 11, 2011 | 6 CommentsFor years the drilling industry has insisted there has never been a proven case in which hydraulic fracturing, or natural gas fracking, has led to contamination of drinking water. Now Environmental Working Group has unearthed a 24-year-old case study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that unequivocally says such contamination has occurred.Yellowstone and Glacier Through Native Eyes
Posted on August 4, 2011 | 2 CommentsFor more than 12,000 years, the Intermountain West's Native peoples have called the lands known as Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks "home." This program explores modern Indigenous perspectives on these great wilderness areas and explores the cultural divide that separates modern times from the not-so-distant past.Yellowstone Druids: The Last Valley of the Wolves?
Posted on July 19, 2011 | 2 CommentsAfter centuries of fear and superstition, research has given the wolf a new image as a social creature with an indispensible role in ecosystems. Unfortunately, wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains have been removed from the endangered species list. The Druid Pack of Yellowstone National Park symbolizes the rise and fall of this much maligned predator.Life and Death: Lakota Spiritual Practice
Posted on July 9, 2011 | 14 CommentsLakota spiritual leaders speak about dealing with a world out of balance, life after death, and overcoming drugs, money and emptiness. Lakota history and the Seven Sacred Rites are discussed.Lakota Vision: White Buffalo Calf Woman and World Harmony
Posted on July 9, 2011 | 8 CommentsThe supernatural appearance of White Buffalo Calf Woman tells of her divine revelations to the Lakota people regarding the Seven Sacred Rites to bring about spiritual rebirth and world harmony.Natural Gas Fracking: Environmental Backlash Grows
Posted on March 8, 2011 | 6 CommentsThe environmental effects of hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" as a method for natural gas drilling investigated recently by ProPublica and displayed in the documentary film Gasland, have led to a nationwide backlash against this dangerous fossil fuel touted as a "clean burning alternative to oil."Wolf Howls Yellowstone Back to Health – By Chip Ward
Posted on September 29, 2010 | 3 CommentsFifteen years have passed since wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park and the results are in. The controversial experiment has been a stellar success. Essay by Chip Ward.
