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Articles

The Great Salt Lake Seemed Like It Was Dying. But There’s Been a ‘Miraculous’ Shift

As discussed below, the declining levels of the Great Salt Lake are primarily due to reduced inflows. Quoting the authors, "Historically, management of the Great Salt Lake watershed has prioritized human water usage over the health of the lake, with most of the river and stream water flowing toward the lake diverted for home, business and agricultural use."

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Cattle and the Environment: Leading the Way in Conservation

As discussed below, properly grazed cattle can produce human food from land unsuitable for crops, regenerate land, reduce wildfire hazard, and help wildlife.

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Livestock, Methane, and Misinformation

As discussed below, properly grazed cattle can produce human food from land unsuitable for crops, regenerate land, reduce wildfire hazard, and help wildlife.

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Videos

The Truth About Why US Ski Resorts Have Become So Expensive (And Where to Go Instead!)

The high cost of skiing and ski area housing is a symptom, not a root cause. The root problem is twofold.

1. Snow skiing – like every other industry – has been taken over by monopolies. Monopolies invariably raise prices, lower services, and crush workers. Banking, agribusiness, airlines, high tech, telecommunications: name any area that does not have this problem. This trend, which started under Ronald Reagan, is defended by the neocons and globalists who say it reflects free markets, but what they have now is the opposite of free markets.
2. Federal forest policy. This is another monopoly; it is joined at the hip to corporate and special interest monopolies. When I travel to our Idaho ranch from Texas, I fly for hours over snow-covered, public land mountains which are off limits to ski resorts and housing. Try to get permission to build a new resort at Wolf Creek, or just a hotel or lift at Grand Targhee: permitting can take 30-years with no guarantee of approval.

So-called ‘conservationists’ have caused this, then they are outraged by the low wages and high costs they have created and maintain.

The solutions are found in competition and free markets. Break up the monopolistic combinations of agencies and conglomerates, and re-open our public lands to the public – including skiers.

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Mother Grizzly and Cubs

Idaho Fish and Game posted this video with these comments:

“Every year Idaho Fish and Game Biologists place GPS collars on grizzly bears to learn about their reproduction, survival, and distribution. A recently retrieved game camera shows a female grizzly as she emerged from her den in late-April with three cubs in tow. The antics of these three cubs playing together was too cute not to share. Watch as they wrestle together and learn just how far they can push mom’s limits as she watches over them.”

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