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The resource management plan for 1.2 million acres of land in the spectacular Colorado Plateau region is up for review by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. The current Resource Management Plan (RMP) for this area has been in place since 1987.<br /><br />Possible land uses for this area in the future include increased <span style="font-weight: bold;">uranium mining and oil and natural gas exploration</span>. The wild lands of western Colorado represent a masterpiece of erosion, weathering and wildness.<br /><br />This wild area is riddled with shale hills and rocky sandstone gorges. From the towering Book Cliffs spanning the northern skyline of <span>Grand Junction, Colorado (below) . . .</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3Mp5QFpdLmE/SWKiXT2u3XI/AAAAAAAADyc/CYiWG2xmQ9Q/s1600-h/grandjunction.gif">

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This Tuesday, the Interior Department's inspector general released a scathing new report accusing Bush administration officials of gross misconduct, illegal actions and systematic abuse in their efforts to ignore, undermine and violate environmental laws. The report found that dozens of endangered species and hundreds of scientists suffered<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read the report from the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=k9l708EQBV2+QzJWzY8qOeL41+PxCkel"><i>New York Times</i></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><br /><br />While this will surprise no reader of this blog, you may want to pass on the information to your friends and family. Ask them to support, with a donation, an environmental or scientific organization before the end of this year.<br /><br /><p></p><div class="tag_list">Tags: <span class="tags"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/interior department" rel="tag">interior department</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/bush administration" rel="tag">bush administration</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/systematic abuse" rel="tag">systematic abuse</a></span></div><div class="feedflare">
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High-definition (HD) radio is the latest technological advance in broadcasting. You may hear HD radio on both the AM and the FM band. HD radio is not satellite radio. HD radio is broadcast by antenna, so you must be within the listening area of an HD station to hear it.<br /><br />You will be amazed at how many <a href="http://www.hdradio.com/find_an_hd_digital_radio_station.php" target="_blank">local radio stations</a>, both AM and FM, are broadcasting in HD. Many stations plan to broadcast in HD soon, too. Why? The sounds you hear are crystal clear and do not fade in and out like analog signals. You may listen to a simulation of HD and non-HD radio on the hdradio.com site.<br /><br />To listen to digital AM and FM programming, all you need is an HD radio receiver. The beauty of HD radio is that the digital signal is piggybacked on the analog signal, so there is no cost for you to listen. The digital part of the signal contains information that is not sent with the analog signal, like information about the song title and artist.<br /><br />This extra bit of information sent with the digital signal enables a neat feature called <a href="http://www.hdradio.com/iTunes_Tagging/" target="_blank">song tagging</a>. When you hear a song on the FM band of the HD radio that you like, just hit the "tag" button on the radio. The song and the song information are saved to your iPod. Your selected songs show up in an iTunes play list as "tagged." This allows you to click, download and buy the songs you want directly from the Apple® iTunes Music Store.<br /><br />Many new cars come with HD radio receivers. To add an HD radio receiver to your car ranges in price from $100 to $400. If you want to listen to HD radio at home, you will need a <a href="http://www.hdradio.com/buyers_guide.php?prime=home&amp;sec=all&amp;price=any&amp;brand=27&amp;pull=78#BuyersGuideController" target="_blank">Jensen JiMS 525i</a> (pictured below) or other name brand HD radio receiver. Portable HD radio receivers start at $100.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3Mp5QFpdLmE/SU4FK6OZgMI/AAAAAAAADr8/kq4IfTEbl-4/s1600-h/jensen_hd_radio.gif">

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Robert Redford sent out a red-hot letter last week on behalf of the NRDC Action Fund asking for support in stopping the Bush administration’s plan to allow gas and oil companies to plunder Utah’s precious Redrock wilderness near Canyonlands and Arches National Parks. The land-grab auction scheduled for Friday will be tough to reverse once the giveaway of rights happens.<br /><br />Robert Redford said:<br /><blockquote>In my mind, this theft of our heritage goes beyond the cynical -- it's criminal . . . parting shot, to destroy our legacy of public lands for short-term gain.</blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/stop_wilderness_giveaway/wsi63sb407tmewxt">TAKE ACTION! Read the details and register your opposition before December 19</a>.</span><br /><br /><br /><div class="tag_list">Tags: <span class="tags"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/nrdc" rel="tag">nrdc</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/utah" rel="tag">utah</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/redrock wilderness" rel="tag">redrock wilderness</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/oil and gas exploitation" rel="tag">oil and gas exploitation</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/save a national treasure" rel="tag">save a national treasure</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/take action" rel="tag">take action</a></span></div><div class="feedflare">
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Governor Bush, and that is all I will ever call him because it is the only office to which he was ever truly elected . . . </span>(George Carlin).<br /><br />Most lame duck presidents use their last days in office to return favors, to pardon felons, and to prepare for their future in the real world. This is just human nature, I guess. While George W. Bush prepares for his life in the public sector, the American people prepare for their lives in a changed world with a devastated environment, failing economy, and a sense that they have been "had."<br />

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A little light reading (391 pages) for the President-Elect, courtesy of 29 environmental groups that collaborated to bring attention to the most important issues in a coherent form. They produced a comprehensive list of actions and policies they would like President-elect Barack Obama to adopt after he takes office January 20.<br /><br /><a href="http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/11/25/135846/29?source=weekly">Transition talk: A 391-page green gorilla in the room | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist</a><br /><br />The groups involved were:<br /><br />* American Rivers<br />* Center for International Environmental Law<br />* Clean Water Action<br />* Defenders of Wildlife<br />* Earth Justice<br />* Environment America<br />* Environmental Defense Fund<br />* Friends of the Earth<br />* Greenpeace<br />* Izaak Walton League<br />* League of Conservation Voters<br />* National Audubon Society<br />* National Parks Conservation Association<br />* National Tribal Environmental Council<br />* National Wildlife Federation<br />* Native American Rights Fund<br />* Natural Resources Defense Council<br />* Oceana<br />* Ocean Conservancy<br />* Pew Environment Group<br />* Physicians for Social Responsibility<br />* Population Connection<br />* Population Action International<br />* Rails-to-Trails Conservancy<br />* Sierra Club<br />* The Wilderness Society<br />* The Trust for Public Land<br />* Union of Concerned Scientists<br />* World Wildlife Fund<br /><br />That 29 discrete and diverse organizations could collaborate and produce a document of this scope in the time they had is amazing. Another miracle is that President-elect Obama's office accepted the document. This is quite a change from the current administration. Remember this? <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/washington/25epa.html?em">White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail - NYTimes.com</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3Mp5QFpdLmE/STtNzqL3yuI/AAAAAAAACp4/P9fH_TXKOjA/s1600-h/dolphins.jpg">

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Nearly 1,000 endangered gray wolves could face slaughter under Bush Administration's new wolf-killing plan. This parting shot by the outgoing administration would leave wolves vulnerable to mass killing by the Northern Rockies states.<br /><br />Click to send your <a href="http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/save_yellowstone_wolves_112008">Official Citizen Comment</a> right now -- before the administration has a chance to pull the trigger on its scheme to strip wolves of their endangered species protection.<br /><br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.defenders.org/newsroom/press_releases_folder/2008/11_07_2008_alaska_wildlife_officials_release_protocol_for_the_killing_of_wolf_pups_in_their_dens.php">Alaska Department of Fish and Game expand predator control methods - Defenders of Wildlife</a><br /><blockquote>Wildlife officials presented a new protocol to the Board of Game today that would allow Alaska Department of Fish and Game staff to kill young wolf pups in or near their dens as part of the state's predator control programs. This practice, known as “denning,” is currently illegal under Alaska state law.</blockquote><br /><br /><div class="tag_list">Tags: <span class="tags"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/wolves" rel="tag">wolves</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/endangered species" rel="tag">endangered species</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/slaughter" rel="tag">slaughter</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/take action" rel="tag">take action</a></span></div><div class="feedflare">
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This time of year is when all the little yard critters try to crawl into my house for water and warmth. I thought I had sealed up all access, but last night I found out different. When I removed my clothes from the dryer, they smelled bad. I made my son take the dryer vent off so I could check it. Sure enough, a little mouse had crawled up in the dryer vent and died. After I gagged awhile, I asked my husband to get another dryer vent and a strip of screen so that I could prevent this from happening again.<br /><br />If you live in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Texas, Arizona or Colorado, you know that pest management is a year round proposition. Green <a href="http://www.alphaecological.com/">pest control</a> is mostly preventative. The first thing is to seal your home against intrusion by pests. Check any place there is a protrusion of pipe, vent or duct work through your foundation, walls or roof. If you have siding on your home, check anywhere the ground meets the siding for termites and carpenter ants. Seal these areas.<br /><br />Ensure that your doors and windows shut securely and completely, using weather-stripping to add another layer of protection. Check the condensation pipe from the internal air conditioner/heat pump to where it empties outside your home and add a small piece of screen. Pest management includes keeping compost containers and garbage cans away from the home.<br /><br />If prevention does not work, natural pest control products include boric acid, Diatomaceous earth, clove oil, mint, cedar, catnip, soapy water and even beer. Certain plants, like fleabane, marigolds and cucumbers, repel pest naturally. Check the library or local pest management service for information. Only use poison in your home or your yard as a last resort.<div class="feedflare">
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<div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ByqxawMmXho&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ByqxawMmXho&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Watch the Cruel Winter Roundup of Buffalo!<br /></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Do We Allow it to Happen Again?</span><br /></div><br />Winter in 2007 brought deep snows to Yellowstone, forcing hundreds of hungry bison to venture outside of the park in search of food. By the end of last winter, almost half of the last free-roaming buffalo herd was dead. Over 1,400 wild buffalo died in the largest buffalo extermination since the 1800s.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Why are the buffalo slaughtered? Fear that these majestic buffalo might, possibly, spread a disease called brucellosis to domestic cows . . .<br />even though there has <span style="font-size:180%;">never</span> been a documented case of buffalo-to-cattle transmission of brucellosis in the wild.</span><br /><br />This year, there are only 3,000 buffalo left in Yellowstone. If the current administration and the State of Montana carry out their brutal policy again this winter, the buffalo population could reach a critical level from which it will not recover.<br /><br />If the slaughter of an American icon matters to you, please make a donation of whatever amount to the NRDC Action Fund. If you cannot afford anything, please pass the word along to others.<br /><br /><br /><div class="tag_list">Tags: <span class="tags"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/buffalo slaughter" rel="tag">buffalo slaughter</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/yellowstone park" rel="tag">yellowstone park</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/NRDC" rel="tag">NRDC</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/take action" rel="tag">take action</a></span></div><div class="feedflare">
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