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Wilderness Restored? Obama Plans to Overturn Bush Environmental Policy
By David Knowles - AOL NewsSome of America's most beautiful, untamed spaces are now poised to stay that way. Reversing a policy set forth when George W. Bush was president, the Obama administration says it plans to make more than 200 million of acres of land eligible for "Wild Lands" federal protection, The Associated Press reported. The vast acreage, which is overseen by the Bureau of Land Management, was made available for commercial development under Bush Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton. In a statement released today, Obama Interior Secretary Ken Salazar described his motivation for overturning the Bush-era ...
Vladimir Putin's Latest Macho Romp: Shooting a Whale
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 26) -- The gray whale is a magnificent but perilous creature that roams the icy waters of the northeastern Pacific. Vladimir Putin, 57, is the tough-guy prime minister of Russia. On Wednesday, the two met for the first time in the wild when Putin traveled to the whale territory along with a scientific expedition and shot one with a crossbow. Don't worry, animal lovers -- the shot wasn't to kill or hurt the whale: Putin was helping researchers collect skin samples and tag the local whale population of Kronotsky Biosphere Reserve, which the International Union for Conservation of Nature ...
Cambodia's 'Jungle Woman' Flees Back to Wild
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(May 29) -- A 29-year-old dubbed the "jungle woman" after emerging from the Cambodian wilderness three years ago naked and unable to speak has now fled back into the wild after struggling to adapt to society. Rochom P'ngieng first disappeared while herding water buffalo in a remote area in the late 1980s when she was a little girl. In 2007, she emerged from the jungle naked and hunched over like a monkey, scavenging for food. She drew attention by trying to steal food from a village, and was subsequently identified and reunited with her family. But she's had trouble integrating back into ...
A Young Woman's Death, and Our Uneasy Truce With Wilderness
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyOn Tuesday afternoon, a young Toronto singer-songwriter named Taylor Mitchell was walking the beautiful Skyline Trail in Cape Breton Highlands National Park when two coyotes attacked her. ...
GOP in the Wilderness, Part II
By Dave - Politics DailyThere were plenty of good and thoughtful comments in yesterday's post. Unfortunately some of the comments were of the variety of "the GOP will never get back into power until they do X." All part of a pattern of concern coming from the left for the Republican Party's slide into oblivion. It's a little surprising to see how much they care. Touching, really. But that's completely and utterly missing the point: We have a two party system; eventually the other party will win some elections and get back some power. Whether that party reforms or not is irrelevant. Jay Cost says as much in an ...
How Long In the Wilderness For the GOP?
By Dave - Politics DailyTimes when Republicans have been "in the wilderness" last century. The year, and the number of Senate and House seats the GOP is left with.1932: President: FDRSenate: 35House: 117Time in wilderness: Six years. until 1938, when a significant number of conservative Republicans and Southern Democrats were able to stop further expansion of FDR's new deal. 1964:President: LBJSenate 32House 140Time in wilderness: Until 1968, when the Democratic party splintered over the Vietnam war and Richard Milhous Nixon came back from the political grave. 1976:President Jimmy Carter Senate 38 House 143Time in ...
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