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Through the looking glass: Keith Stuart on the irresistible rise of augmented reality
I absolutely detest AR. Horses for courses but it's an instant turn off for me. It's unbelievably naff. Reply +4
PlayStation VR will be at EGX
It might be nice if it told us EGX was fully booked before having to complete a questionnaire that is clearly only looking for a specific result. Reply +3
Here's the most streamed Spotify music on PlayStation
Gaming is not an exclusive club for fringe nerds anymore sadly. It's mainstream. Much like the music business. Therefore streamed music on ps4 reflects mass market appeal. Moaning about it, is a bit like moaning about prime time Saturday night TV. Reply 0
Blizzard to remove Overwatch pose accused of reducing Tracer to another bland female sex symbol
Am I the only person who, after getting a few posts into this thread, had to look up what sjw stands for? Reply +2
Watch the Chuckle Brothers take control of Hitman
That was fantastic. :) Reply 0
Street Fighter 5 review
Why is it a surprise that a Street Fighter game is bereft of modes? Sf4 was hardly packed with content either was it?
At least this one has a survival mode.
Bring back World tour mode I say! Reply +2
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime review
Opening description of different functions in different rooms puts me in mind of 'Worse things happen at sea' on the spectrum. Reply 0
Gravity Rush Remastered review
A charming, atmospheric and extremely frustrating game. The Vita version was painful in the later game. Reply -1
Cyber Gadget Retro Freak review
Why do these things never incorporate Atari VCS? :( Reply 0
Eurogamer says farewell to Dan Whitehead
Good luck Dan!x Reply -1
Hacker group Phantom Squad launches DDOS attack against Xbox Live
Ah security. Necessary because of this kind of stuff, but sadly almost crippling the IT industry now. Logging in to bloated, encrypted, triple factor authenticated, vulnerability scanned systems makes for slow, unresponsive experiences. The world is disappearing up its own backside and we're all part of the problem. Reply +4
SteamWorld Heist review
Very much looking forward to this. Instabuy! Reply 0
Nuclear Throne review
Nice review but any chance of lettingg us know what systems this is coming to, or is just PS4 and PC!? Reply -1
Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash review
Not sure why people are praising the 3ds one. It's super easy and also very light on content too! Reply 0
Watch: What makes for a memorable boss fight?
If they are done well you should barely notice they are there, it'll just be another fun part of the game. Ramping the difficulty to high frustration levels is the worst thing about them. Simply not fun. Reply +3
Dead or Alive Facebook page says Xtreme 3 won't head west
The lack of understanding of what these games actually are is amazing really, given the heavy opinions. If you like collecting games like Animal Crossing you would absolutely love DOA Xtreme series (not played this one).
You don't have to dress the characters in next to nothing. That's down to the persuasion of the individual player.
The truth is that Tecmo like to ride the controversy, much like the general assumption that GTA is simply mugging prostitutes and beating them to post sex death. Reply +4
For better or worse, From Russia With Love was vintage Bond
Everything or Nothing is the best Bond game by a mile. Reply 0
The Vita is dead - or is it?
I've been a big fan of the Vita since day one. I have three of the things and they are all very dusty these days. What it really needs now is custom firmware. It has the potential to be the best machine for emulators ever. Add that to the stellar line up it already has and it will become legendary.
And no...I'm not a dirty pirate I have spent well over a thousand pounds on Vita games at a guess. Reply +7
Charming 'work it out yourself' game Kingdom gets a release date
Kingdom was a game for the BBC micro. Name stealing is not cool! Reply 0
Street Fighter 5's Laura announced - officially, this time
OUTRAGE!!!! A woman with breasts! A digital make believe one at that!!!! Reply +2
High-profile FIFA YouTubers hacked, scream about it
Hard to feel sorry for these guys to be honest. Reply 0
Face-Off: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5
Tony Hawk games were always a tad glitchy. I'd still take one over Po faced Skate any day. I'll keep my eyes on the bargain bin methinks. Reply -2
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer review
It's a good game. It's nice to see them do something a little different. After all, where could they go with the main game now? If they put out the same thing yet again they'd be hung out to dry by the internets.They can't win really..
As for this game, it's no more aimless than animal crossing has ever been. If anything the simple fact of gotta get them all villagers, makes it more focussed than the regular game. Reply 0
"I could do with a bit more money!": Yu Suzuki on the return of Shenmue
This. Game. Is. Never. Coming. Out. Reply -13
Assassin's Creed Syndicate takes a leap towards inclusivity with the series' first transgender character
See...back in the old days of gaming...when your character was just a dot on the screen....it could be anything you wanted it to be...it was up to you. I preferred that personally. Reply +5
Konami ceases triple-A console production on all but PES - report
Mobile versions of classic arcade games please. Done properly and with real thought and I'm in. Reply 0
GAME apologises after Super Mario Maker mix-up
Stop pre ordering games. It's simple. Reply -1
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition free via Xbox Games with Gold in September
I really struggled with Tomb Raider. Having enjoyed games like Anniversary immensely it just seemed to be different for the sake of it. Not enough Tomb Raiding and trying to be Uncharted, a game that copied Tomb Raider in the first place! Reply 0
Nintendo pulls 3DS game as homebrew exploit looms
Security has ruined IT. Both for administrators and users. Nothing can launch without being bogged down with endless encryption and vulnerability measures. you end up with slow, bloated products created by people who are more concerned about security than functionality. It's a sad reflection on the world we live in. Reply +1
Nintendo employee fired after podcast remarks on localisation, fans
This comment section right here is precisely why he got fired. Reply 0
Pixels: the Eurogamer review
From the moment in the trailer where I realised Pacman had been drawn with eyes....I knew this was going to be bollocks. Reply +1
Rare Replay review
I'm pretty certain it was the games media that were down Nuts and Bolts brilliance, not the general public. The about face from all outlets now it's on this collection is quite something. Reply 0
Bethesda literally cannot produce any more Pip-Boys
You are all part of the problem. Don't pre order. Put an end to buggy, half finished releases. Reply 0
Rise of the Tomb Raider hits PS4 "holiday 2016"
CHRISTMAS 2016 is what you meant to say. We are not USGamer are we? Reply +6
Rory McIlroy PGA Tour review
EA outings on a new generation of hardware have always been massively gimped. Reply 0
Shenmue 3 returns, but has it already been left behind?
This is as empty an announcement as there could be. There's nothing to show. No guarantee of funding, completion or anything.. Reply +1
20 years on, Worms remains a comedy classic
I never clicked with worms. I have bought many versions for many consoles but I just never quite got it. Too bloody hard to be good at. Reply -6
Nintendo announces new Dr. Mario, Chibi Robo, Olympics games
So a Dr Mario that is almost identical to the dsi ware version that is already available for a few quid? Nice one! Reply 0
Carmageddon: Reincarnation review
Green blood or gtfo. Reply +3
Adventure Time Puzzle Quest coming this summer
Headline got my attention then the bit underneath cancelled all interest. Reply 0
Nintendo hires Bowser as new US sales chief
Sad as it is, and knowing the world of senior management fairly well....it wouldn't surprise me if the people that hired Mr Bowser had no clue of the awesomenes of this name for the role. Reply +2
Nintendo's new 3DS Pullblox game is free to download
Unpopular opinion alert!
I own both the first two games and think they are completely and utterly over rated. They look great and have a great personality but they're just boring. Meh! Reply -5
P.T. no longer available for re-download in the US
Everyone is getting in a tizz about this....but really....the replayability of the thing is practically zero....in fact, if this hadn't happened, I bet most of us would never have fired it up again anyway. Reply 0
Threes developer releases "optimistic peasant simulator" Royals
It sounds like Kingdom for the BBC Micro Reply +2
Smart Boy will turn your iPhone 6 Plus into a Game Boy Color
Small matter of no games available for it. At
Least not in any official capacity. Reply 0
"He suddenly became incredibly sullen, angry and frustrated. He was 10"
Sadly, the way the modern world works, you can stop your kids playing violent games, but you can't stop them watching the whole game you told them not to play on YouTube or other social media. And that's with surf controls in place too.
I believe the Internet needs to be regulated. There has to be a sensible way to do it. When I go into a newsagents I don't have to look at the smut on the top shelf, unless I ask to.
Also, reporting parents to the police is likely to lead to a disastrous breakdown of certain families and may end up with kids in care etc. not nice for the family involved. The vast majority of kids exposed to games come from normal families and aren't raging lunatics smoking crack and ignoring their children.
I think something like Eastenders is far worse for the general welfare and worldview of children than a lot of 'mature' video games.
Game makers need to play their part too. A game like GTA could be exactly the same gameplay wise without all the 'mature' content. Let's face it, when a game states 'mature' it generally achieves the exact opposite, which is probably why they attract giggling school kids in the first place. Reply 0
See which retro game consoles can survive a 15 foot drop
This seems like sacrilege to me.
I can't say I remember the dream cast as being particularly well built. It's disc based for a start. Reply +8
Use your remaining Club Nintendo stars on digital 3DS, Wii U games
This is good news. Good luck to those of you who have multiple stars to enter on the website. The survey process is an utterly terrible experience that will suck your will to live. Reply +6
Jeff Minter "beyond disgusted" with Atari over TxK block
Just rename it Space Giraffe 2 and release it as planned.
Arguably, Minter's name does more for Tempest than the other way round anyway.
In fact I think Minter's name means has more gravitas than Atari these days. He doesn't need the association to be a success. Reply +1


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Senior Allison Zastrow committed to play volleyball at Washington University in part because of the program's prestigious history. Four years later, the setter from Lincoln, Neb., has clinched a prominent spot in the program's all-time ranks.
First it was No. 5 Christopher Newport University, falling in a surprise five-setter on Saturday afternoon, and then a nighttime flurry, as No. 4 Calvin College and No. 2 Emory University lost in quick succession.
The Washington University volleyball team already has one title to their name this year, and the second—and bigger—trophy within reach is potentially just two weekends, and six tough tournament games, away.
As the pass from the back row floated near the net, senior Allison Zastrow stutter-stepped and bounced lightly toward it, surveying the court around her.
For two careers that have paralleled each other in so many ways, it seems fitting that junior outside hitter Rexi Sheredy and junior middle hitter Caroline Dupont would notch their greatest milestone to date in the same game.
Some things in life are certainties—death, taxes and a five-setter against Emory. This weekend was a painful remind of the latter for the Washington University volleyball team.
The Washington University volleyball team posted its best offensive performance in six years on Saturday, and in a weekend marred by defensive inconsistency, the Bears needed every kill.
By the rankings, the University Athletic Association has the deepest crop of volleyball teams in Division III. With four UAA teams ranked in the top 25 in the country this season, the most of any conference, gone are the days when Washington University could sweep through its conference schedule with ease.
In the end, it was the highest-ranked opponent that proved the easiest test for Washington University's volleyball team. During a weekend that saw parity among the fraternity of top-ranked teams, No. 6 Wash. U. used a resounding three-set victory over No. 2 Calvin College to stake its claim as one of the country's leading contenders for the Division III title.
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Not that Westwood One needs a ticket to be taken seriously. It captured 15 percent of the $400 million that advertisers spent on network radio last year, and Mr. Pattiz thinks that with the right acquisitions, the company's share could jump to 30 percent in coming years.
For the year ended Nov. 30, the company had net earnings of $7.3 million, more than double the previous year's profits of $3.5 million. Revenues rose nearly threefold, to $59.3 million, from $19.1 million. Programs for Many Tastes
The core of the company's business is still its programs of rock music and related material. One of its most popular offerings is ''Off the Record,'' an interview show run by Mr. Pattiz's wife, Mary Turner, that draws its guests from popular music. But Westwood One has also branched out significantly, with Spanish-language broadcasting, music aimed at black audiences, country music and the music of the big bands and crooners of the 1930's and 1940's.
The wide range of programming, expanded with Mutual's news and talk shows, not only insulates the company from shifts in listener tastes and advertising spending, it allows the company to sell its shows to more than one station in any market.
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I read over the rebate form again and again, making sure I'm not missing something before I email them. The form is set up in such a way that you check off which rebates you're interested in--the fitting rebate, the quantity purchase rebate, or both. In the terms and conditions it states "offer is limited to one fitting portion and one quantity rebate per person". It goes on to say "only new wearers to the brand are eligible for the fitting rebate", so I'm thinking it has to be a mistake and I email them.
A few hours later I get a staged response, "We apologize however it appears as though we are missing the eye exam receipt information needed to process your reward. If you attempted to mail in your eye exam receipt it does not appear to have arrived or could not be read, or was not an itemized receipt." No one even bothered to read my email where I explained why I didn't provide eye exam information and that I wasn't after that rebate. Technically, I wouldn't even apply for the fitting rebate because I'm not a new wearer to the brand. It was clear that they were not interested in resolving the issue, or reading what I had to say for that matter.
I understand that in the grand scheme of things $30.00 isn't something to go crazy over, but I did spend over $180.00 in contacts lens with the ultimate goal of getting the rebate. No where on the rebate form does it state having to have an eye exam AND purchase quantity in order to qualify.. if that were the case, then why itemize the rebate? I'm more frustrated than anything, it shouldn't be that difficult to get a freaking rebate. It's a shame because I really like the contacts and their solutions, but this has just left such a bad taste in my mouth.
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Eye Exam not with-in 90 days...
AUTHOR: Ciba Rep - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, September 25, 2012POSTED: Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Please look at the small print of the rebate certificate n(was also on page 2 of the rebate form you printed, all by itself too, that is where this info was located. They do have an exception to this business rule tho, if the eye exam is with-in 6 months, they will honner it, you just have to call them to have that exception preformed.
Now, I understand that most people only get an eye exam once a year but in your case, your eye care provider should not have told you about this rebate since your purchase did not qualify because you did not have an eye exam with-in 90 days of your purchase.
I am very sorry that we could not process your rebate, but, the blame for this is not solely on CIBA, most of it is with your eye care provider who should know the products they are selling and the rebates that go along with them. Now your left feeling ripped off by a rebate that was not due to you in the first place.
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"Sinker" is the twenty-fourth episode of Lilo & Stitch: The Series. It aired on December 15, 2003.
A small, purple shark-like experiment is destroying and sinking enemy ships with his large dorsal fin. Lilo and Stitch must find a way to control him before he sabotages the boat racing competition (and before Gantu catches him). His one true place is at a Japanese restaurant, where he uses his large fin to cut up fish fillets and vegetables for the chefs to make sushi. Meanwhile, Gantu and Reuben end up stranded on a small island.
Experiments Mentioned
- Moral: Never give up, and be confident in what you do.
- Sinker's fin is shown to have differences in size, though it is likely a continuity error.
- Sinker is one of the rare experiments to have dark red eyes instead of black ones like the rest.
- Pudge made a cameo in this episode, where Lilo fed him a peanut butter sandwich. He previously appeared in the first film.
- Nani meets Reuben for the first time.
- It is hinted that Pleakley had visited China sometime before the events of The Series because he mentions his Chinese bamboo fan that Stitch was using as a prop.
- According to Lilo, Nani is revealed to have an addiction to chocolate.
- In this episode, Jumba mentions about having given presents to his evil genius family back home, implying while he cannot go back to his home planet, he is allowed to send gifts there. It is also hinted that he may come from a family of evil geniuses.


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The authorized removal of wolves in the Profanity Peak wolf pack in northeast Washington is deeply regrettable. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is however following the protocol developed by Washington State's Wolf Advisory Group (WAG) - a diverse group of stakeholders. The WAG and WDFW have committed to evaluate how the protocol worked on the ground this season in order to improve it for next year. In addition, we intend to conduct a thorough and open-minded assessment of the issues raised for all stakeholders involved.
We remain steadfast that our important goals remain the long-term recovery and public acceptance of wolves in our state alongside thriving rural communities. In the meantime, we ask our community and the citizens of Washington State and beyond to engage in respectful and civil dialogue as we work through these challenging events. We believe that ultimately we can create conditions where everyone's values are respected and the needs of wildlife, wildlife advocates, and rural communities are met.
For more background on this issue from Conservation Northwest, please click here. The views in this link do not represent the views of other organizations listed in the above statement.]]>
Conservation Northwest is disappointed that wolf depredations on livestock within the territory of the Profanity Pack appear to have become habitual. We recognize that as wolf populations grow in Washington, under the state's Wolf Management Plan (Wolf Plan) animals that habitually prey on livestock may need to be removed. This fact of responsible wolf recovery can be heartrending, but it won't stop wolves from flourishing in our region over the long run if removals are done with care and restraint.
The area of northeast Washington where these events have occurred contains more than a half dozen confirmed wolf packs, with additional packs nearby in Canada and Idaho. We do not expect the loss of Profanity Pack members to impact the sustained recovery of wolves in Washington.
Washington's wildlife belongs to all the people of the state regardless of where they roam, or where the people live. When it comes to wolf management, citizens deserve timely and accurate information on the circumstances that led up to any lethal removals. We commend the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for providing information on this conflict in a prompt, thorough and transparent manner.
Based on GPS tracking collar data and observations from agency experts on the ground, a total of one adult cow and three calves have been confirmed as killed by Profanity Pack wolves, in addition to three probable depredation events by the same pack. This count has reached the point where lethal removal of pack members by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is permissible under policies developed and agreed upon by consensus of the WDFW's Wolf Advisory Group, on which CNW has a seat. The Department accepted these recommendations and adopted them as policy.
As a regional conservation organization committed to attaining practical solutions through collaboration and genuine listening, we were closely involved in the development of these lethal management policies and Washington's Wolf Plan. Though it's tremendously difficult to see wolves killed, we understand and accept this action as a necessary component of coexistence where people, wolves and livestock share territory.
WDFW conflict specialists worked with livestock producers to put a range rider into a grazing allotment that had not previously had one. This occurred shortly after the first confirmed depredation. The second affected producer already had a WDFW contract range rider since last year. Additional human presence, beyond the range riders, has been added by the producers. Both producers have been promptly removing or securing the carcasses of depredated livestock to help prevent further association of wolves with cows as a food source. We respect these steps and deeply appreciate that many ranchers across our region have been doing the same in recent years.
Through our Range Rider Pilot Project and other efforts, CNW is working to help livestock operators adopt these proactive conflict avoidance measures and promote tolerance for wolves in their communities. These services are freely offered (within our capacity) to ranchers who are willing to partner with us, and in 2016 more than half a dozen operators have done so. Tools like range riders, guard dogs and fladry aren't a cure all, but can work well, particularly when deployed for the duration of the grazing season. Compensation is also available from the state for Washington ranchers who have documented losses to wolves, lessening the economic impact of situations such as this.
The requirements for lethal removal as agreed upon by the WAG have been met. It is our hope that targeted lethal removals done in the most humane manner possible, as well as the further use of conflict avoidance measures by both the ranchers and WDFW staff, will resolve this issue without continuing losses of either livestock or wolves.
Conservation Northwest's goal when it comes to wolf recovery in Washington is for our state to be a place where wolf recovery and management works in the long run; for people, wolves and all the Northwest's wildlife. But to achieve this goal it will take hard work, respect and compromise from stakeholders on all sides.
It is important also to note that this will not be the last time wolves and livestock are in conflict in our state. Nor will it be the last time that wolves habitually preying on livestock will need to be lethally removed. Even with proactive range riding programs, thoughtful range management, and other coexistence efforts, such conflicts are infrequent but expected occurrences in areas where wolves have recovered such as Montana, Idaho and Alberta where the loss of a small number of cows to wolf predation, and the lethal removal of wolves habituated to livestock depredation is understood to be an accepted part of ranching and wildlife management. This will sometimes be the reality here in Washington too, especially where wolves and livestock overlap on large public land grazing allotments.
With calm collaboration and responsible problem-solving among all stakeholders, together we can reduce and appropriately respond to incidents like those of the Profanity Pack, and build a future that works for ranching families, rural communities, conservationists, and vital native species.
Wolves are part of our cultural and natural heritage. As a native keystone species they play an important role in the health of our wild ecosystems. Wolves belong in our state. Even as we lament the loss of both cattle and wolves in these events, Conservation Northwest looks forward to continuing to work with all parties to make the return of wolves to Washington a long term success.]]>
Between the Cascades and the Rocky Mountains in northeast Washington lie the Columbia Highlands. This special place features stunning subalpine peaks and majestic old-growth forests. And it provides a home for lynx, mountain caribou, grizzly bears and many other species.
For over a decade we've worked to permanently protect the wildlands of the Columbia Highlands for people and wildlife.
Now there's a new opportunity to designate much needed wilderness in northeast Washington, including on the wild Kettle Crest at the core of the Columbia Highlands.
The Colville National Forest is taking public comments on its Land and Resource Management Plan Revision through July 5. Plan revisions can include wilderness recommendations and other important wildlands protections. We need your help to ensure that vital wild areas on the Forest are protected!
The Columbia Highlands region is especially important because it connects the Cascades and the Rockies for animals on the move, like Canada lynx. Hikers, skiers, hunters, and others also find splendor and solitude, providing important economic benefits for local communities.
But only a tiny fraction of Colville National Forest has been permanently protected as congressionally-designated wilderness. These wildlands face widespread motorized recreation, potential uranium mining, and other threats.
We're urging the Forest to recommend wilderness designation for these roadless areas: Profanity, Bald Snow, Hoodoo, Abercrombie-Hooknose, Salmo-Priest Adjacent, Thirteenmile, and Quartzite. Along with the Plan Revision's other provisions, these designations offer the right balance of conservation, recreation, forestry, and other forest uses.
Click here for a map of these roadless areas and the Columbia Highlands.
The Forest has drafted several alternatives to be considered as Management Plan updates. We most like Alternative P for its goals of restoring ecological resilience, reducing damaging roads, and increasing use of fire as a restoration tool. But Alternative P falls far short in protecting large old trees, watershed health, and the wild Kettle Crest. Instead of Kettle wilderness, it currently proposes the toothless administrative designation of Special Interest Area (SIA) for this cherished wild place.
We strenuously oppose the weak SIA designation, and insist instead that the agency recommend wilderness designation for all deserving roadless areas on the Kettle Crest, including at least the Profanity, Bald Snow, Hoodoo, and Thirteenmile roadless areas.
Dear Forest Supervisor Rodney Smoldon,
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Colville National Forest's Land and Resource Management Plan Revision. The Forest and its roadless areas are important to me and many other Washingtonians, and they provide a home for many fish and wildlife species. It's important to protect and conserve the Forest for future generations.
Despite its vital habitat and connectivity values for wildlife and cherished recreation areas, only a small fraction of the Colville National Forest is currently protected. Wild roadless areas on the Forest should be protected in perpetuity for future generations of people and wildlife. They conserve critical habitat, preserve wildlife connectivity, support outdoor recreation, and benefit local economies. I urge you to adopt conservation and wilderness measures to ensure a wild, healthy future in northeast Washington.
Please recommend the following wild roadless areas on the Colville National Forest as wilderness: Profanity, Bald Snow, Hoodoo, Abercrombie-Hooknose, Salmo-Priest Adjacent, Thirteenmile, and Quartzite.
The wild roadless areas of the Kettle Crest are of paramount importance and must be protected as wilderness. I oppose the proposed Special Interest Area designation because it is toothless and too weak, and request wilderness recommendations for all deserving roadless areas on the Kettle Crest, including at least the Profanity, Bald Snow, Hoodoo, and Thirteenmile roadless areas.
I most like Alternative P for its goals to restore ecological resilience, reduce damaging roads, and increase use of fire as a restoration tool. But Alternative P falls far short in protecting large old trees, watershed health, and wilderness quality lands, and in other areas. As part of the Forest's Land and Resource Management Plan revision, I urge you to adopt Alternative P after adding explicit safeguards for large old trees, improving aquatic habitat protections and habitat connectivity, and adding the wilderness recommendations noted above.
Thank you again for accepting public comments on this important issue.]]>
After a decade of work, the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest (OWNF) has proposed a Motorized Travel Management Plan to address the use of Off-Road Vehicles (ORVs) in the forest, including ATVs and dirt bikes.
Currently, motorized vehicles are allowed anywhere within the National Forest where they're not specifically prohibited. Under the proposed plans, they will be prohibited except in areas where they're specifically allowed.
The final draft proposal currently up for comment includes several alternatives for motorized use on the forest. This is our last chance to weigh in for an alternative that moves the forest towards a balanced motorized road and trail system that provides access to the national forest while protecting and restoring natural resources, including fish and wildlife.
We support keeping ORVs off closed roads and illegal user-created trails. We also accept that motorized recreation is one way people choose to enjoy the outdoors, and we support allowing motorized recreation on designated routes where comprehensive analysis has found such use does not create an overly negative impact on ecosystem health, fish and wildlife habitat, and other forest users.
Unfortunately the current Motorized Travel Management Plan proposals are a missed opportunity to holistically address the issue of creating a sustainable road system on the OWNF that balances motorized access with fish, wildlife and natural resource protection and quality non-motorized recreation.
As we learned last December in a Forest Service report, 49 percent of the forest roads on the OWNF are posing a high risk to natural resources. At the same time, the Forest is over $10 million short every year in funding to keep the current road system maintained. This means the Forest's roads need to be downsized to a level that is ecologically and economically sustainable. Currently the Travel Management Plan proposals do not address these risks or the size of the road system, but rather take only a first step in defining use on the existing roads on the forest.
Of the alternatives that are presented, we believe that a modified Alternative C that protects important fish habitat by restricting dispersed camping on roads within 300 feet of streams recognized as Critical Fish Habitat while also opening WATV use on six existing motorized routes is the best option as an initial step towards a sustainable motorized road and trail network on the forest.
Learn more about our work for sustainable forest roads in the Northwest at: www.conservationnw.org/roads. More information from the Forest Service on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest Travel Management Plan can be found at: http://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=46467,
Dear Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest,
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this important issue. The Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest is deeply important to me, as well as to fish, wildlife, heathy ecosystems, outdoor recreationists and local communities. It's important that the Forest adopt a sensible and sustainable Travel Management Plan that moves the forest towards a balanced motorized road and trail system that provides access to the national forest while protecting and restoring natural resources, including fish and wildlife.
The current Motorized Travel Management Plan proposals are a missed opportunity to holistically address the issue of creating a sustainable road system on the OWNF that balances motorized access with natural resource protection and quality non-motorized recreation. And adoption of a final plan is only a first step. Over 8,000 miles of roads currently traverse the OWNF, many of which are of low value to recreation and forest management, while placing fish and wildlife habitat at high risk. While this plan closes cross country travel and motorized use on all Level 1 (closed) roads, as highlighted by the travel analysis reports released last year, much work remains to create a sustainable motorized travel system on the forest that balances access needs with natural resource protection.
Of the alternatives presented, I believe that a modified Alternative C that protects important fish habitat by restricting dispersed camping on roads within 300 feet of streams recognized as Critical Fish Habitat while also opening WATV use on existing open roads on six routes collaboratively identified by forest stakeholders is the best option as an initial step towards a sustainable motorized road and trail network on the forest. Investments in implementation, enforcement, and education are vital to the success of a final Travel Management Plan.
Adoption of a final plan must be followed with a forest-wide approach to winter motorized use, as well as landscape recreation planning efforts and project level decisions to address problem roads that pose a risk to natural resources and areas on the forest where motorized use (trails and roads) is out of balance with management goals for watershed protection and habitat such as the Yakima basin including the Snoqualmie Pass Adaptive Management Area.
As you finalize the Travel Management Plan, please continue to consider how problem roads and motorized recreation can negatively affect water quality, fish and wildlife habitat, and opportunities for quality non-motorized recreation including hiking, horseback riding, wildlife watching, and hunting. Please continue to take steps to limit negative impacts while appropriately balancing the diverse interests and needs of forest stakeholders, as well as the needs and health of the forest itself and the fish and wildlife that depend on it.
Thank you,]]>
Grizzly bears have lived in Washington's North Cascades for approximately twenty thousand years. In 2016, wildlife experts estimate that fewer than ten remain, making it the most at-risk bear population in North America. But these threatened icons of the wild Northwest have more than a few friends who want to see them return.
Today, conservation organizations, local businesses, and a growing roster of rural and urban residents announced their support for restoring a healthy population of grizzly bears to the North Cascades through the Friends of the North Cascades Grizzly Bear coalition and the new website www.northcascadesgrizzly.org. More than two dozen Supporting Organizations and Businesses and over 500 Supporting Individuals have already signed on as Friends of the North Cascades Grizzly Bear.
The poll, conducted in May 2016 for Defenders of Wildlife, found 80 percent of registered voters in Washington support efforts to help the declining population of grizzly bears in the North Cascades recover. Notably, this overwhelming support extends across gender, generational, regional, and even partisan lines – with 89 percent of Democrats, 70 percent of Republicans, and 74 percent of independent voters backing these efforts. The poll finds Washington voters hold the grizzly bear in high esteem, with 91 percent agreeing with the statement that grizzly bears are a vital part of America's wilderness and natural heritage. Eighty-one percent believe that the "the State of Washington should make every effort to help grizzly bears recover and prevent their disappearance" and 85 percent of voters agree that "efforts to help the North Cascades grizzly bear population to recover should be science-based and led by expert biologists."
In 2015, the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), in coordination with other federal and state agencies, began a multi-year public Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) process to plan for the restoration of a healthy and functioning grizzly bear population in the North Cascades. Designated a national Grizzly Bear Recovery Zone in 1997, the area encompasses approximately 9,800 square miles from the U.S.-Canada border south to Interstate 90 and is anchored by North Cascades National Park. It's one of the largest contiguous blocks of wild public land remaining in the lower 48 states.
"Public planning to restore a healthy grizzly bear population to the high-quality habitat of the North Cascades Ecosystem marks the potential turning point in the decades-long decline of the last grizzly bears remaining on the U.S. West Coast," said Chase Gunnell, Deputy Communications Director for Conservation Northwest, a local organization that has worked for more than two decades to restore the North Cascades grizzly population. "Without active recovery efforts, these bears may soon be gone forever."
"Wherever grizzlies thrive, so does wildness, clean water and abundant native fish and wildlife," said Rob Smith, Northwest Regional Director for National Parks Conservation Association, one of several coordinating organizations behind the new collaborative effort. "We need to save the Cascade grizzly bear for future generations – and the time to act is now."
The announcement coincides with Washington state's official Bear Awareness Week, which runs June 4th through 12th, 2016. The National Park Service, USFWS and other agencies are expected to release draft EIS alternatives for restoring a healthy grizzly bear population to the North Cascades in the fall of 2016. Public comments on those alternatives will be open at that time.
In June 2015, the federal agencies released a summary report of the approximately 3,000 public comments submitted during the EIS scoping period held in early 2015. Of those who submitted comments in support of or opposition to grizzly bear restoration during that period, comments from grizzly bear restoration supporters outnumbered those from opponents by over five to one.
The highly intelligent, charismatic grizzly is a symbol of strength and cultural significance for many Native American and First Nations communities across the Northwest. A vital part of our region's ecosystems and thus of our natural heritage, the grizzly bear is also a yardstick to gauge the ecological health of the Northwest's wild places.
"Humans benefit from grizzly bears living in the North Cascades Ecosystem," said Fred Koontz, Vice President of Field Conservation for Woodland Park Zoo. "Their very presence indicates wildness, biodiversity and health in our region. Environmentally and ethically, the right thing to do is restore this magnificent species to its original landscape."
Northwest Trek Wildlife Park's Zoological Curator, Marc Heinzman, reiterated that point.
"Grizzly bears are truly one of the most amazing species found in the Northwest. They're fascinating and engaging animals which we should be proud to have in our wildlands," says Heinzman. "Their role is paramount to a healthy landscape, and today they need our help."
The Friends of the North Cascades Grizzly Bear coalition is working to advance the widespread local, regional, and national backing for restoring a healthy population of grizzly bears to their native home in the North Cascades throughout the multi-year EIS process.
If the North Cascades grizzly population is successfully restored, the region will once again have functioning populations of all iconic wildlife species that were present prior to the turn of the 19th century. According to the Friends, that is a momentous conservation achievement possible in very few places in the continental United States. And one that Washington state, and the nation, can be proud of.
Learn more about the Friends of the North Cascades Grizzly Bear, an independent and informal partnership supporting the restoration of a healthy and functioning grizzly bear population in the North Cascades Ecosystem, at www.northcascadesgrizzly.org. Supportive resolutions, testimonials, frequently asked questions, resources and helpful links, bear safety information, and more are available on the website.
More than two dozen Supporting Organizations and Businesses and over 500 Supporting Individuals have already signed on as Friends of the North Cascades Grizzly Bear. Steering Committee organizations for this collaborative effort include Conservation Northwest, National Parks Conservation Association, Woodland Park Zoo, Defenders of Wildlife, Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, and the National Wildlife Federation.
More information on grizzly bears in the North Cascades, and the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) process considering how best to restore them, can be obtained from the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee (IGBC) at: http://igbconline.org/north-cascades/. Additional information on bear awareness and bear safe living, working and recreating practices can be obtained from Western Wildlife Outreach at: http://westernwildlife.org/grizzly-bear-outreach-project/]]>
The Colville National Forest is currently accepting public input through July 5 on a multi-year planning effort to update and revise its Land and Resource Management Plan. Feedback submitted during this process will guide management of the Forest for the next decade and beyond.
All Listening Sessions begin at 6:00 p.m. and end at 8:00 p.m. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Forest Service staff will be in attendance and informational posters will be on display.
Conservation organizations, recreation groups, and other Forest stakeholders will be distributing suggested comments on the Plan later in June. This comment period is particularly important because the Forest can designate wild Roadless Areas as recommended wilderness during the Forest Plan update.
Despite important recreation values and the vital habitat it provides for wildlife such as lynx and woodland caribou, only a tiny fraction of the Colville National Forest has been permanently protected as wilderness. With threats from widespread motorized recreation, potential mining, and other concerns, the Forest badly needs more protected wild areas and an updated plan that offers the right balance of conservation, recreation, forestry and other uses.
The Forest has drafted several alternatives to be considered as Forest Management Plan updates. We most like Alternative P for its better standards with respect to managing forests and livestock, reducing damaging roads, and increasing use of fire as a restoration tool. But Alternative P falls far short in protecting large old trees and especially in its scant wilderness recommendations for the wild Kettle Crest. It must be improved to recommend wilderness protections for at least the Profanity, Hoodoo, Thirteenmile and Quartzite roadless areas.
If you live, work or recreate in northeast Washington, please attend a Listening Session to ensure that your voice is heard on this important Forest Management Plan update! And stay tuned for more suggested comments and information on the Management Plan coming soon.]]>
Located on the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest (MBSNF) around Highway 410 between Enumclaw and Chinook Pass, the watersheds of the Greenwater River and Upper White River provide popular hiking, skiing and other recreation access as well as important habitat for elk, native fish and many other species. But a massive network of crumbling forest roads is jeopardizing the health of this area.
As part of efforts to create a sustainable forest roads system on the MBSNF and to "restore and protect the watershed's ecology from impacts of the road system", the Greenwater Access Travel Management Plan is currently open for public comment.
This area is especially important for its role connecting wildlife habitat in the central Cascade Mountains. It serves as a hub between the Norse Peak and William O'Douglas Wilderness areas to the east, Mount Rainier National Park to the south, and the Alpine Lakes Wilderness to the north.
Identified as a Tier 1 key watershed by the Northwest Forest Plan, over 200 wildlife species have been recorded to use the Greenwater River and Upper White River watersheds. The area's rivers and creeks also provide habitat for three fish species federally listed as threatened or endangered: Puget Sound Chinook salmon, Puget Sound steelhead, and bull trout.
This is an important landscape to maintain access for recreation, management, and cultural resources while also maintaining a road system that is sustainable and protects ecological health. The suggested comments on this plan are technical, but we need help from our members and activists to ensure that the Forest hears them loud and clear!
The official Greenwater Access Travel Management Plan project page can be found at http://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=47991. Comments can also be submitted to Karen Change, White River Ranger District, at firstname.lastname@example.com through May 27, 2016.
The National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have initiated an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to determine strategies for restoring a functioning population of grizzly bears in the North Cascades, which is a federally designated Grizzly Bear Recovery Zone.
Learn about what it means to work and live near grizzly bears, as well as how communities can thrive in bear country. Join us for this free event and hear several experts share what they know about grizzly bear ecology, behavior and possibilities for the restoration process.
This event is intended for residents of Snohomish and Skagit counties and is hosted by the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Darrington Area Resource Advocates. This is an informational event and is not an official public comment period.
We hope to see you there!
Please contact Jenni Minier at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.]]>
Conservation Northwest, based in Washington state, has officially joined the National Wildlife Federation as an affiliate member organization. It was unanimously voted in at the most recent Board of Directors meeting and has officially joined the Federation as of April 18, 2016.
"We're excited by this new partnership," said Mitch Friedman, Conservation Northwest founder and Executive Director. "Affiliation with the National Wildlife Federation will further our work of protecting, connecting and restoring the extraordinary wildlife and wildlands of our region. It will help us be stronger and more effective, and we'll be contributing to the success of the national federation as well."
"We are thrilled to welcome Conservation Northwest into the National Wildlife Federation family," said Collin O'Mara, President and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation. "Conservation Northwest brings together thousands of Washingtonians from all walks of life in the cause of conservation – stewardship of wildlife and the land and water on which they depend. Together with 50 sister state and territorial affiliate organizations that comprise the National Wildlife Federation, Conservation Northwest will be an essential partner in a nationwide grassroots conservation army that is working hard every day to unifying Americans to ensure wildlife survive and thrive."
Based in Bellingham, Washington with offices around the state, Conservation Northwest connects landscapes, restores wildlife, and protects core habitat in Washington state and British Columbia. The organization's programs include restoring grizzly bear habitat in southwest British Columbia, helping establish wildlife crossings over and under Washington highways, ensuring north-central Washington's working ranch lands support both local economies and wildlife, fostering co-existence between wolves and livestock, restoring wildlife such as fishers and North Cascades grizzlies, providing citizen science wildlife monitoring data, advocating for sustainable forest management, and protecting wildlands through wilderness and other designations.
Conservation Northwest will be joining the Northern Rockies and Pacific Region, working alongside affiliates from California, Hawaii, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. Affiliates in each region work together and with partners to advance conservation and protection of each region's unique natural treasures.
"I have admired the great work of Conservation Northwest for years and I am really pleased they are joining with NWF as our affiliate in Washington State. The future is bright and I look forward to working with the entire Conservation Northwest team," said Tom France, NWF Northern Rockies, Prairies and Pacific regional executive director.
Founded in 1989, Conservation Northwest is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with 9,000 supporters and members that protects, connects together, and re-wilds large natural areas in the Pacific Northwest for the benefit of people and wildlife. The organization has won protections for millions of acres of wildlife habitat, led successful campaigns to purchase tens of thousands of acres of land for permanent protection, and connected once-fragmented landscapes in which wildlife like lynx, caribou, wolverines and bears can again freely roam. Using conservation biology and a collaborative approach, Conservation Northwest helps keep the Northwest wild.]]>
With increasing threats to public lands from extremist militants, influential politicians and powerful special-interest funders like the Koch Brothers, Conservation Northwest and eight other national and regional conservation organizations launched a new short film and coordinated campaign today to protect our public lands.
Through a petition and social media tools on the website www.protectpubliclands.com, the campaign calls on the millions of Americans who hike, camp, ski, fish, climb, watch wildlife, or otherwise love their public lands to urge elected leaders to reject all attempts to give away, sell, transfer or otherwise abuse our nation's public lands heritage
The film, titled "Protect Your Lands," contrasts the devious threats that national parks, forests, wildlife refuges and other public lands face with the tremendous dedication Americans have for these places.
Join us Saturday at our 'Celebrate Your Public Lands' rally!
Despite polls consistently showing strong public support for protecting and maintaining national public lands (Colorado College), and data demonstrating the enormous economic value of public lands in the form of $646 billion in consumer spending and 6.1 million direct jobs nationwide (Outdoor Industry Association), 2016 has seen the armed takeover of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and a rise in legislative proposals seeking to dismantle the nation's iconic public lands system.
"From lawbreaking militants to influential lobbyists and elected officials working in the halls of Congress, a powerful minority wants to give away America's priceless natural heritage to be exploited for natural resource extraction or sold off to the highest bidder for private playgrounds," said Chase Gunnell, Communications Manager. "What these factions ignore is that Americans love and depend on our public lands. We won't stand idly by and watch them taken away from us."
To demonstrate the strong support for protecting public lands, the organizations are holding more than a dozen rallies, guided hikes, film screenings, happy hours and other events nationwide during Earth Week. A tool on the website allows people who are interested to host or share their own event aimed at keeping America's public lands in public hands.
Looking for fun public lands activities for before or after the rally? We've put together a list of great options for enjoying our area's amazing public lands.
The Protect Your Lands campaign is a collaborative effort by non-profit organizations Conservation Northwest, Oregon Wild, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, Bark, Hells Canyon Preservation Council, Western Watersheds Project, Defenders of Wildlife, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, and the Center for Biological Diversity.]]>
America's public lands are under threat. Armed extremists recently took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon demanding that our nation's public lands be turned over to local or private ownership. And even worse, in Washington, D.C. and states across the West we're seeing a rise in legislative proposals to sell off or steal America's forests, wildlife refuges, and other public lands.
Fueled by deep-pocketed special interest groups, natural resource corporations and radically conservative politicians, these actions aim to take our precious public lands from the public for exploitation by the few. We cannot let this happen.
Conservation, environmental, wildlife and outdoor advocacy organizations from across the country are banding together and speaking up to ensure that America's public lands are kept in public hands. Our event is coordinated with other Protect Your Public Lands rallies, hikes, film screenings and events being held nationwide during Earth Week.
You can view a map of all the events we are planning during Earth Week here. Want to create and share your own event supporting America's public lands, whether in your neighborhood or out in a national park or forest? You can do that on our map too!
We need to show elected officials and powerful special interest groups that Washingtonians will show up to protect America's public lands. Public lands not only give us outdoor recreation opportunities and protect our nation's fish, wildlife and natural heritage, they also provide strong economic benefits for local communities. We all have a responsibility to stand up and ensure that our public lands are preserved for future generations.
After this hour-long long rally, we invite you to enjoy the surrounding Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest by hiking, climbing, birding, fishing or otherwise enjoying YOUR public lands! Look for suggested activities that will be posted on our Facebook event.
Interested in speaking or tabling at our event in support of public lands? For information on partnership opportunities, please contact Jeff Baierlein at Conservation Northwest at (206)-675-9747 Ext. 204 or jeff (at) conservationnw.org.
MISSOULA, Mont.— Describing the wolverine as a "snow-dependent species standing squarely in the path of global climate change," a federal judge today overturned an August 2014 decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refusing to grant this rare and elusive species any protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Dana Christensen rejected the Service's determinations that climate change, an extremely small population size—there are only approximately 300 wolverines left in the northern Rockies and north Cascades—and genetic isolation do not threaten the wolverine's survival in the lower-48 states.
"This decision gives the wolverine a fighting chance at survival," said Earthjustice attorney Timothy Preso, who represented eight conservation groups in the case before Judge Christensen. "There is now hope for this icon of our remaining wilderness."
Today's ruling passes a harsh judgment on the Fish and Wildlife Service for an eleventh-hour reversal in considering new legal protections for the wolverine. In February 2013 the Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the wolverine as a threatened species under the ESA after the agency's biologists concluded global warming was reducing the deep spring snowpack pregnant females require for denning.
But state wildlife managers in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming objected, arguing that computer models about climate change impact are too uncertain to justify the proposed listing. Then, in May 2014 the Service's Regional Director Noreen Walsh ordered her agency to withdraw the listing, ignoring the recommendations of her own scientists. The agency formalized that withdrawal in a final decision issued in August 2014.
In today's ruling, Judge Christensen addressed the question of why the Service flip-flopped on this key conservation issue: "[T]he Court suspects that a possible answer to this question can be found in the immense political pressure that was brought to bear on this issue, particularly by a handful of western states. The listing decision in this case involves climate science, and climate science evokes strong reactions."
The judge also directed the Service to act promptly to correct its erroneous findings: "It has taken us twenty years to get to this point. It is the undersigned's view that if there is one thing required of the Service under the ESA, it is to take action at the earliest possible, defensible point in time to protect against the loss of biodiversity within our reach as a nation. For the wolverine, that time is now."
The groups represented by Earthjustice in the wolverine case are the Center for Biological Diversity, Conservation Northwest, Friends of the Clearwater, Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Idaho Conservation League, Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, and Rocky Mountain Wild. They praised today's court decision.
"Today's decision is welcome news for anyone wishing to observe wolverine in remote, rugged and snowy mountain landscapes," said Dave Werntz, Science and Conservation Director with Conservation Northwest. "The future of wolverine in the North Cascades and elsewhere is now a bit brighter."
"Wolverines are the mountain devils of the west and they require snow," said Tanya Sanerib an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, "The court rebuffed the Fish and Wildlife Service's rejection of climate change threats to wolverines as 'bordering on the absurd.'"
"Today's decision restores scientific integrity to wolverine management," said Caroline Byrd, Executive Director of Greater Yellowstone Coalition. "This increasingly rare and elusive animal represents the wildness that is still found today in Greater Yellowstone and we are committed to ensuring wolverines receive the protections they deserve."
"We are pleased that the court sided with us," said Brad Smith of the Idaho Conservation League. "The wolverine is one of Idaho's rarest animals. Now we need to work toward the protections that are needed to recover wolverines."
"This decision is great news for wolverines in the Clearwater Basin. Because elevations here are not as high as much of the rest of the Rockies, wolverines in the Clearwater are particularly threatened by climate change and other human impacts," said Gary Macfarlane of Friends of the Clearwater.
Wolverines are making a comeback in Washington's North Cascades! Learn more here.
The wolverine, the largest land-dwelling member of the weasel family, once roamed across the northern tier of the United States and as far south as New Mexico in the Rockies and Southern California in the Sierra Nevada range. After more than a century of trapping and habitat loss, wolverines in the lower 48 have been reduced to small, fragmented populations in Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming and northeast Oregon.
With no more than 300 wolverines remaining in these regions, the species is at direct risk from climate change because wolverines depend on areas that maintain deep snow through late spring, when pregnant females dig their dens into the snowpack to birth and raise their young. Snowpack is already in decline in the western mountains, a trend that is predicted to worsen. Wolverine populations also are threatened by trapping, human disturbance, extremely low population numbers resulting in low genetic diversity, and fragmentation of habitat.
The groups that challenged the Service's determination pointed out that the agency disregarded well-established scientific evidence, including the recommendations of its own scientists, in speculating that the wolverine might be capable of withstanding the projected loss of 63 percent of its snowy habitat in the lower 48 by the year 2085. Contrary to the Service's speculation, every one of the 562 verified wolverine den sites in North America and Scandinavia occurred in snow; 95 percent of worldwide summer wolverine observations and 89 percent of year-round wolverine observations fell within areas characterized by persistent spring snowpack.
Elimination of this snowy habitat due to warming temperatures presents a direct threat to the wolverine's survival — a danger compounded by the increasing isolation and fragmentation of wolverine habitats that threatens remaining populations with localized extinctions and inbreeding.
The Range Rider Pilot Project, a collaborative effort between Conservation Northwest and seven ranchers grazing cattle in areas of Eastern Washington occupied by six different wolf packs in 2015, has previously produced three years with no livestock lost to wolf conflicts in our project areas. This effort seeks to demonstrate the effectiveness of non-lethal measures in deterring or reducing conflicts where wolves and livestock overlap in Washington, keeping cows and wolves safe and building social tolerance for these native predators.
In 2015, our ranching partners experienced three livestock depredations, the first wolf-cattle conflicts confirmed within our project areas. Two depredations occurred in Kittitas County in the area of the Teanaway Pack. Another occurred in Stevens County in the area of the Smackout Pack.
However, we believe the most recent field season was a success. Along with our ranching partners, we understand that range riding and other nonlethal deterrence methods are not always going to be 100 percent successful where livestock and predators share territory. The goal is to promote coexistence and reduce conflicts as much as possible.
Get our take on wolf recovery. Read our talking points on wolves in Washington.
"In past years we've had outstanding success with our range rider program with all the ranchers involved. Yet, we always knew a time would come when no matter how much non-lethal work was done, a depredation could occur. 2015 was the year that happened, and two ranchers working with our project experienced losses," said Jay Kehne, our Conservation Associate and Range Rider Pilot Project manager based out of Okanogan County.
"But two cows and one calf lost during a project season that included seven ranchers, eight public land grazing allotments and thousands of cow-calf pairs on hundreds of thousands of acres within the territory of six Washington wolf packs, that doesn't make the Project or herd supervision failures when it comes to reducing conflicts between wolves and cattle," says Kehne.
Kehne notes that while we do not take these losses lightly, and neither do the ranchers we partner with, it's important to realize that to ranchers in Idaho, Montana, and Canada, where wolves have been back on the landscape for decades or longer, losing one or two cows to predators in a season in these circumstances is considered a success. This is a practical definition of success that in the past we have not had to experience or accept here in Washington in regards to wolf conflicts. But it's one that will sometimes be the reality going forward where wolves and livestock overlap on large public land grazing allotments. What's more, the 2015 conflicts within our project areas did not lead to habitual depredation behavior from the wolves, likely due in part to the removal of the livestock carcasses and ramped up range riding shortly after the conflicts occurred.
Sam Kayser, our ranching partner in the Teanaway, shared similar perspectives in an August Seattle Times article. "I want to believe there's room for all of us…I don't feel it's a failure. It doesn't mean I like it, but it's just one loss in four or five years," Kayser said after the first of his two livestock loses to wolves during the 2015 grazing season.
In addition to the collaboration with Conservation Northwest, the ranchers we partner with have livestock damage prevention agreements with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). These WDFW agreements are also designed to help fund and implement preventative measures, such as calving on fenced property, using range riders to increase human presence, and the removal of sick or dead livestock to avoid attracting predators.
Ranchers with damage presentation agreements who experience losses to wolves receive compensation from the state for the value of their losses. Washington ranchers without damage prevention agreements can also receive compensation for livestock lost to wolves provided they supply documentation of measures designed to prevent and resolve conflicts according to a checklist provided by the Department.
The goal of our Range Rider Pilot Project and our work on wolves is for Washington to be the state where wolf recovery, conservation and management works in the long run, for people, wolves and all the Northwest's wildlife. But to achieve this goal it will take hard work, respect and compromise from stakeholders on all sides. And along with state and federal wildlife agencies we are working with these ranchers to hopefully avoid repeat depredations during the upcoming grazing season and continue our efforts with our partners in several other territories.
The 2015 grazing season served as a reminder that the road to coexistence between people, livestock and predators is not easy. But these experiences are an expected component of a balancing act between people, livestock and predators sharing the same space.
Want to support our Range Rider Pilot Project and other collaborative efforts on behalf of wildlife, wildlands and local communities? Become a Conservation Northwest member or donor today.]]>
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is proposing to log over 1,200 acres of state forest lands burned during the 2015 Okanogan Complex Fire. The West Fork Fire Salvage timber sale would clear forests with ground-based machinery on exposed, erosive soils.
Research has shown this type of logging dramatically boosts soil erosion, crushes forest regrowth, and undermines forest recovery. The timber operation would take place in the Loup Loup Creek watershed which feeds into the Okanogan River at Malott. Loup Loup Creek provides essential spawning habitat for endangered steelhead trout.
We've filed an appeal of this large timber sale, citing concerns that the sale offers minimal financial gains in return for substantial risks to the environment and public infrastructure.
"With the dangerous floods and erosion that occurred after salvage logging last year in nearby Texas Creek, we've learned that logging burned forests makes a bad situation much worse," said Dave Werntz, Science and Conservation Director at Conservation Northwest. "During a spring rain storm, DNR's meager buffers along waterways did nothing to stem the flow of logging debris and soil into Texas Creek and downstream through roads and private property."
To address erosion concerns, DNR proposed small buffers along streams and other measures. Yet, the stream buffers applied are designed for unburned forests and assume live vegetation will filter out sediment generated upslope. Many stream-side forests in the burned area lack capacity to filter sediment and control erosion.
Scientists studying the fire effects determined that the Loup Loup watershed experienced high soil damage, creating a "very high" risk of serious erosion and major damage to infrastructure and water quality. In particular, the Burned Area Emergency Response Team reported that Loup Loup Creek has "the highest potential for dangerous flooding and debris flow effects resulting from the fire."
Additionally, imperiled steelhead trout have rebounded in lower Loup Loup Creek in recent years after a coordinated effort by Okanogan County, the Colville Confederated Tribes, and others to restore habitat quality. Over 3,000 acres of logging is planned or active in the watershed, potentially putting this comeback at risk.
"Logging burned forests sets back ecological recovery and destabilizes exposed soils," Werntz said, "Sediment and debris from the West Fork timber sale has the potential to reach all the way down to the Okanogan River, and jeopardize everything in between."
An appeal of the West Fork Fire Salvage timber sale was filed with the Superior Court in Okanogan County on Thursday, February 11, 2016. Conservation Northwest will be represented in the appeal by Wyatt Golding and Peter Goldman of the Washington Forest Law Center.]]>
Below is a message from our allies at the Methow Headwaters Campaign, an effort recently launched by a coalition of local businesses based in the Methow Valley. We've worked for years to oppose exploratory drilling and a proposed open-pit copper mine at Flagg Mountain near Mazama, and we're thrilled to see this grassroots movement picking up steam.
We have a Twisp office and many staff that either live in the Methow Valley or cherish the area for its recreational opportunities and unique landscape, as well as its diverse fish and wildlife populations. The Methow's tight-knit community has Conservation Northwest's full support in fighting this industrial-scale mining proposal. The U.S. Forest Service plans to announce a decision on the mining proposal this spring.
I'm writing you with big news. As you may have seen in last weekend's Wenatchee World and the recent Methow Valley News, more than 70 local businesses have stepped up to oppose mining on Flagg Mountain and the rest of the upper Methow watershed, under the banner of the "Methow Headwaters Campaign."
The Methow Headwaters Campaign is an effort to protect the headwaters of the Methow from industrial-scale mining, in order to safeguard our recreation-based economy, our rural lifestyle, and the wildlife and water resources that sustain it all. From this point forward, the "Protect Flagg Mountain" coalition will transition to form the foundation of the Methow Headwaters Campaign.
Yes, it's Valentine's Day! We know many out-of-towners will be in town, and it's a great opportunity to learn about the campaign, offer your support, and mingle with new and old friends. And after the serious part, we hope you will stay and listen/dance to the sounds of Danbert Nobacon and the Axis of Dissent. Food and libations will be available.
We have a temporary website up at www.methowheadwaters.org (it will launch on February 14). In the meantime, www.protectflaggmountain.org will still be available for more information about our campaign against the proposed exploratory drilling.
If you're on Facebook, please go to www.facebook.com/methowheadwaters and "like" us. (And then we'll like you!)
Bill Pope
Owner, Mazama Country Inn, and business liaison for the Methow Headwaters Campaign


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I never meant to stop writing my blog. What can I say? Life happened. I went through a horrible miscarriage, then was blessed to get pregnant again quickly and easily. Because I have a congenital abnormality of the uterus, my pregnancy was very difficult. I went into labor eight weeks early, while we were on vacation in Hilton Head, South Carolina and had a medical evacuation to Charleston. Cole was several days later (after intense labor of several days) via a four-hour C-section. Even though we both experienced some severe distress, he was thankfully strong and healthy and was able to go home four weeks later. We stayed at the hospital with him the entire time (thankfully they provided a room in the Charleston hospital–something not available in NICUs near our home) breastfeeding and providing kangaroo care round the clock. He had surgery a few months after he was released, but otherwise has continued to be strong. My husband started a new job and we moved in those same first crazy months.
We moved, in part, so my daughter could start school. I know! I know! Our plan was to homeschool. But, that was because we weren't anywhere near a Sudbury school. My husband's new job meant we could move near a Sudbury Model School and Mia could start democratic free school at four. It has been a wonderful experience. Everything we could have hoped and more!
In the time since we moved, I have had Lyme disease and been diagnosed with celiac disease and another autoimmune condition called morphea scleroderma. I'm dealing with these health issues the way I have dealt with all other health challenges in the past: a good quality (completely gluten free) real food diet, reduction of stress, and a combination of traditional and holistic medical care from highly qualified professionals.
In the meantime, my children are thriving on the type of diet and lifestyle I wish I'd been introduced to from the very beginning. My family is happy and whole. We just visited the Rocky Mountain National Park, where my oldest (Mia, who is now almost 7!!) hiked a total of 10 miles! (She has hiked over five more since we returned.)
Someday, I may blog again, as my children grow older and are less negatively impacted by having to wait for me to finish at a computer before they can have my attention. (Somehow, I think seeing me constantly absorbed by the keyboard and screen is more negatively impactful than any amount of recreational screen time I allow them to have.) A relaunch is something I can see sometime in the next few years. Until then, be well, eat real food, garden, be kind to yourself and keep up with me on Facebook!


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Olivia Newton-John 'plans intervention for troubled daughter Chloe Lattanzi'
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- May 30, 2014
OLIVIA Newton-John is reportedly planning an intervention for her daughter Chloe Lattanzi after the 28-year-old admitted she had blown her sobriety.
The 65-year-old Grease star rushed to her daughter's side earlier this month after Lattanzi posted photos and video of herself looking dazed and disoriented to social media.
She delivered a frank confession, saying she had "p****d her sobriety away."
"If you're sober stay sober. For anyone out there struggling with addiction. I feel you," she wrote.
She followed up her wild night by taking to social media a few days later.
"Just so all my friends know, I'm fine," she wrote. "I almost fell off, but I've got back on."
The singer-songwriter spent seven months in rehab last year to deal with cocaine, alcohol and antidepressant abuse.
She says that by the age of 22 she was spending $US130 a day ($140) on cocaine and a bottle of vodka.
"Being drunk and high became so routine that I would be high in front of my mum – and I don't think she even noticed because it was such a normal state for me to be in," she said.
Newton-John however is said to be taking no chances that her only child is coping and immediately flew to see her following the social media confession.
Now, Closer magazine says Newton-John is planning to bring together all of her loved ones, including father Matt Lattanzi, for an intervention. Lattanzi, 55, who was last heard of living in a teepee in Malibu, is said to be extremely worried about his daughter's behaviour.
Newton-John has had a tough year herself. She lost her beloved sister, Rona Newton-John, just over a year ago today. Then in August a man was found dead from a gunshot wound in her South Florida home.
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