04 October 2005

Owyhee Initiative

This week's Essay of the Week discusses the Owyhee Initiative. For information on why this is not a good plan, go to this website. If you consider yourself an environmentalist, outdoors enthusiast, sustainable hunter, ecologist, anti-corporatist, socialist, populist, progressive, you should not support this bogus scheme. As the essay suggests, just because the word "wilderness" is in there doesn't mean you'll end up with any wilderness. Here are links to two environmental organizations you can trust: Western Watersheds Project and Committee for the High Desert. This week's essay is dedicated to the memory of Lee Mercer.