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Groups File Promise to Challenge Idaho s New Harmful Wolf Hunting Laws

Groups File Promise to Challenge Idaho s New Harmful Wolf Hunting Laws
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Groups call for expanded grizzly bear protections

Readers of my columns can be forgiven for assuming that my every waking thought surrounds things political and historical. After all, at 4, I cried myself to sleep in front of my family’s grainy 12-inch Muntz television screen the night Stevenson first lost to Eisenhower. Four years later, w… More Headlines

Groups Urge Action on Simpson NW Infrastructure Proposal

Credit spiritofamerica/Adobe Stock Groups are urging Northwest leaders to act on U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson s infrastructure and Snake River dam proposal. The plan would breach the four lower Snake River dams to help salmon, whose numbers have dwindled for years. It aims to restore what American Rivers calls in a report out this week, the most endangered river in the country. Julian Matthews, a Nez Perce tribal member and co-founder of the group Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment, said the dams are harming tribal treaty rights to fish for salmon in the region. We didn t give them up and say, Well yeah, but if there s no fish, then we won t have that right , he said. We said that we have that right, and want to make sure that right is enforced by the federal government and our elected officials.

Protecting Mother Earth – Eugene Weekly

The 1,200 mile-long, underground Dakota Access Pipeline skirts the northern edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, carrying crude oil beneath the Missouri River with plans to expand beneath Lake Oahe. On April 9, the Biden administration announced it will not block the pipeline 一 which lacks a key federal permit and threatens tribal drinking water 一 while an environmental review is underway.  The decision to not halt the project is a paradigm of the federal government’s relationship with Native tribes, says Indigenous scholar Dina Gilio-Whitaker; it violates a treaty and the environmental rights of Native American communities.  “That’s the settler colonial system operating as it’s designed to 一 it’s not designed for justice for Native people,” she says. 

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