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Still, in the days before the verdict, he reflected often upon those years of bounced checks and the tiny, rickety Bangrak house with the frequently flooded downstairs that he had to manually pump out whenever it rained. Even if the court came back against him, even in the worst-case...
“Ever since the late 70’s…there has been a focus on utility and efficiency, as concerns like human dignity or the intrinsic value of unspoiled wilderness fall through the cracks,” Tribe said.
Few realized that 2,000 miles away, in Washington, a series of decisions were being made that could threaten the Yellowstone ecosystem. The previous evening the Interior Department had announced it was blocking a plan to reintroduce grizzly bears to the Bitterroot Wilderness area in Idaho and Montana, northwest of...
National monuments are different from national parks like Yellowstone or wilderness areas such as Washington's Mount Rainier, which can be designated only by Congress. Monuments can be designated by the President, who also sets the rules by which they are run. Typically, development is sharply curtailed.
When the service proposed banning vehicles from 47,000 more acres--adding to the 784,000 acres already closed off--a political firestorm ensued. Colorado Congress members and their snowmobiling constituents accused the service (an agency usually criticized as being a caddy for timber companies) of putting ferns before humans...