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Idaho Game Cam

Chris Gill

11 Jan 2024

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Late summer 2020 game camera clips from Pitchstone Waters.

NOTE: this post was originally published to this site on July 7, 2021

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Exigent Public Health Crisis from Wildfire Smoke — Immediate, Cost-Negative Remedy via Targeted Relocation of Excess Wild Horses under Existing Federal Authorities

A new executive briefing argues that toxic wildfire smoke has become a national public health emergency and proposes an unconventional solution: using excess federally managed wild horses to reduce wildfire fuels in remote forests.

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Siskiyou County's wildfire crisis raises a fundamental question: what happens when a landscape loses the large herbivores that once helped shape it?

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