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Courtesy FWS Here’s fodder for an age-old, but hopefully not old-news, endangered species conversation: In southern Washington, a timber company that owns a 45,000 swath of forest within reach of spotted owl nest sites–a holding it intends to harvest on a relatively generous 60-year rotation–has committed to a “safe harbor” agreement with the U.S. . . . → Read More: Spotty Protection?
“For a quarter-century a debate has raged about the best use of the refuge’s unprotected northernmost section, the coastal plain along the Beaufort Sea. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report due for completion in 2012 may well shape the refuge’s fate,” we wrote in the November-December issue of Audubon. Continue reading Provide Wilderness Protection in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Evaporation ponds in the eastern portion of the Great Salt Lake. Courtesy of Great Salt Lake Minerals.Say you’re a newbie farmer, and your buddy gives you some organic potash to try out on a field. You can bet it came from the Great Salt Lake, that big ol’ water body in Utah and . . . → Read More: The Great Salt Lake Debate: Can Birds and Potash Coexist? We’ve got a plastic problem. Producing the stuff requires an enormous amount of energy—four percent of the US’s energy consumption is used to make it. Once it’s produced, it has staying power, with the average plastic bottle sticking around for 450 years before it decomposes. Tons of the stuff is floating in the . . . → Read More: Video: Machine Turns Plastic Back Into Oil |
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Fifty years ago the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge came into existence, a milestone commemorated with stories, books, including one by Douglas Brinkley, which we featured yesterday, and events around the country. The anniversary provides a historic opportunity to designate the remaining 1.5-million acres within the refuge’s boundaries as wilderness area, protecting the last piece from energy development.