Here's a link to my full story at spokesman.com on how residents opposed to giant truck shipments of oil equipment through Idaho's scenic Clearwater/Lochsa river canyon filed suit today to block the shipments, just a day before Idaho planned to issue permits for the first…
The Idaho Transportation Department was poised to issue four oversize permits to ConocoPhillips for mammoth shipments on U.S. Highway 12 tomorrow, but now will hold off due to the filing of a lawsuit in 2nd District Court in Grangeville today by local residents seeking to…
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter has decided to require a $10 million bond from both ConocoPhillips and Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil for their huge, oversize shipments of oil equipment over Idaho's scenic Highway 12 corridor along the Lochsa and Clearwater rivers. "We have asked for and the companies…
Idaho will qualify for $51.6 million in aid to its hard-hit public schools under the new federal jobs bill, and Gov. Butch Otter has announced that he'll apply for the money, a decision welcomed by state schools Supt. Tom Luna. Click below to read Otter's…
Fish & Game commissioners have approved a resolution to call for an appeal of the federal court decision putting wolves back on the endangered species list; calling for working with the governor and Idaho's congressional delegation on legislation addressing the issue; pursuing all available management…
Robin Thorson, regional director of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, closed her presentation to Idaho's Fish & Game Commission on wolves today with this comment: "It's not just words. We are in this with you, until you're back to delisting - you earned it."
Here's a news item from The Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Three Idaho residents are asking a state judge to block the first wave of oversized shipments of oil equipment planned along scenic U.S. Highway 12 in northern Idaho. The lawsuit filed Monday seeks…
F&G Commission Randy Budge of Pocatello asked, "How did the Fish & Wildlife Service get so crosswise with Wyoming?" and asked "what we plan to do to get Wyoming to come along, and what we can do to change that situation." Robin Thorson, regional director…
Idaho Fish & Game Commission Chairman Wayne Wright said on wolves, "Idaho's plan didn't fail, but yet the process did fail us." He questioned whether the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service bore some "responsibility" or "culpability" for that. Robin Thorson, FWS regional director, said the…
Idaho Fish & Game Commissioner Tony McDermott of Sagle said he's been hearing from "frustrated sportsmen," and he told Fish & Wildlife Service Regional Director Robin Thorson, "I'm not sure your federal rule failed, I think it was maybe the federal justice system and one…
Robin Thorson, regional director of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, says the federal service is "standing ready to receive Idaho's proposal to control wolves" in portions of its population due to impacts on elk. "Once we receive it, we'll turn it around in no…
Idaho's Fish & Game Commission was supposed to meet today to set wolf-hunting seasons, but since a federal judge re-listed wolves on the endangered species list, that's off the table; instead, the commission's agenda at its Idaho Falls meeting today includes a proposal to kill…
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