Wildlife

What Happens When We Kill All the Bees?

From the Center for Biological Diversity: Did you know that bees pollinate 1 out of every 3 bites of food that we eat? We clearly owe a lot to our pollinator friends, and now they urgently need our help. Trump's Environmental Protection Agency just approved an enormous expansion of the use of the bee-killing pesticide [...]

By Jamie Lynn Morgan|2019-08-26T08:47:22-07:00August 26th, 2019|Community, Wildlife|0 Comments

The Amazon Rainforest Is On Fire and Barely Makes the News

The Amazon rainforest is an ecological marvel. It's twice the size of India, according to the World Wildlife Fund, and it's the largest remaining tropical rainforest in the world. It's home to at least 10% of the world's biodiversity, produces 20% of the world's oxygen and helps regulate the temperature of the whole planet. Read more here: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/22/world/amazon-rainforest-environment-fire-trnd/index.html [...]

By Jamie Lynn Morgan|2019-08-23T11:12:45-07:00August 23rd, 2019|Climate, Forests, Wildlife|0 Comments

Large development proposed in Hayden Lake

A large development called English Point Heights is being proposed with 155 homes just 1,000 feet from the shoreline of Hayden Lake. The development will be at the corner of Lancaster and Hayden Lake Roads on a steep clay-base hill. This is one of the largest rural developments proposed in the county in over 10 [...]

By Amy Anderson|2019-07-25T10:57:25-07:00July 7th, 2018|Community, Land Use, Water, Wildlife|0 Comments

Proposed Smelter in Newport, WA raising concerns in local communities

A Canadian Company Called HiTest Sand is proposing to build a smelter in Newport Washington. The proposed smelter will discharge up to 700 tons per year of nitrogen oxide, 601 tons of carbon monoxide and 760 tons of sulfur dioxide, along with 111 tons per year of particulate matter. The smelter would be the 15th [...]

By Amy Anderson|2019-07-25T10:56:41-07:00March 15th, 2018|Community, Kootenai Environmental Alliance, Land Use, Water, Wildlife|0 Comments

The future of the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests

The Forest Service is currently seeking public comments regarding the development of alternatives for the Forest Plan Revision on the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests. The deadline is February 28. If you don’t understand forest planning, or if you were unaware of this important deadline, it is not your fault. Forest Supervisor Cheryl Probert has failed [...]

By Amy Anderson|2018-02-16T09:24:36-08:00February 17th, 2018|Forests, Kootenai Environmental Alliance, Land Use, Water, Wildlife|0 Comments

Contact your Senators Now!

For 100 years, federal tax policy has incentivized the giving spirit. It has also empowered our crucial work. The goal of simplifying the tax code and making it easier for Americans to file their taxes is admirable, but the collateral damage this simplification would cause comes at too great a cost. According to Republican estimates, [...]

By Amy Anderson|2019-07-25T10:56:42-07:00November 30th, 2017|Community, Forests, Kootenai Environmental Alliance, Water, Wildlife|0 Comments

Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017 (HR 2936)

It’s bad enough that industrial logging can occur on 250 acres of public land, and be excluded from routine environmental review. This includes limited opportunity for public involvement. The Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017 (HR 2936) would drastically increase this scenario, and allow 10,000 acres of public land to be logged without the necessary [...]

By Amy Anderson|2019-07-25T10:56:42-07:00November 29th, 2017|Community, Forests, Kootenai Environmental Alliance, Land Use, Water, Wildlife|0 Comments

Time to pull out the pen and paper and let your voice be heard

Bills to Oppose Water Bills to Oppose HR 3043-passed House The Hydropower Policy Modernization Act, would make the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) the lead agency for all federal authorities related to dams including The Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, and National Environmental Policy Act. It gives unprecedented power to FERC to set [...]

By Amy Anderson|2017-11-10T16:02:56-08:00November 11th, 2017|Community, Forests, Kootenai Environmental Alliance, Water, Wildlife|0 Comments

Bill H.R. 3043

Bill H.R. 3043 is scheduled to go to the house floor next week. This bill is a devastating assault on our nation’s rivers and the people and wildlife that depend upon them. Its passage would end 95 years of balance in the hydropower licensing, tipping the scales again taxpayers in favor of big utilities. No [...]

By Amy Anderson|2017-11-03T14:14:58-07:00November 4th, 2017|Community, Kootenai Environmental Alliance, Water, Wildlife|0 Comments

Washington Wildlife Agency to Gun Down Wolves

OLYMPIA, Wash.— The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife on Thursday announced it will kill members of the Smackout wolf pack after confirmation that a calf was injured by one or more wolves on public grazing land in Stevens County on July 18. The kill operation will likely result in the deaths of the 3-month-old wolf pups from this [...]

By Amy Anderson|2017-07-28T08:41:54-07:00July 28th, 2017|Kootenai Environmental Alliance, Wildlife|0 Comments

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