Net Neutrality is essential to free speech, equal opportunity and economic innovation in America. Since the FCC removed this basic protection in 2005, the top executives of phone and cable companies have stated their intention to become the Internet’s gatekeepers and to discriminate against Web sites that don’t pay their added tolls.This fundamental change would …
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500,000+ Acres of Idaho’s Public Roadless Forests Face Invasive Development
Over 500,000 Acres. It’s hard to imagine just how big that is.Idaho’s Republican Governor petitioned the Forest Service to allow road building in protected roadless areas last year. They want road access for invasive development of a big chunk of our last roadless public lands. This invasive development includes, mining, drilling, logging and more. They …
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Show Some Love to Yellowstone Buffalo
Yellowstone Buffalo, the last genetically pure breed of Bison in the WORLD, are at the cusp of slaughter at the hands of the Montana Department of Livestock. They say the slaughter is in the name of brucellosis, but yet they don’t even test them.They hide their true agenda. Read on…Dear Buffalo Supporters, Montana intends to …
Idaho’s Roadless Areas Under Attack
Long Story Short (here’s the long version)Pre-Bush: Roadless areas nationwide are protected as a whole. No roadless development is allowed.Bush Takes Office: Repeals roadless rule; revoking nationwide protections for roadless areas – our public lands! Puts in hands of local governors.Former Idaho Governor Kempthorne immediately begins petition process to plan road building regardless of wishes …
The Time to Defend Wolves is Now
We have just one week left to prevent the slaughter of hundreds of wolves in the Northern Rockies. Unless we stop them, federal officials could eliminate vital protections for these magnificent animals and spark the biggest wolf massacre in the lower 48 states to occur in decades.There are just 8 days remaining in the public …
Speak Up to Protect Idaho’s Backcountry Forests
The Forest Service is accepting comments on Idaho Roadless Areas. Idaho has more than 9.3 million acres of unprotected backcountry National Forests, more than any state in the lower-48.In 2006, then-Governor Risch asked the Forest Service to protect 8.8 million acres of Idaho’s backcountry roadless areas. His proposal would open over 525,000 acres to mining, …
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