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Smarter Farming Key to Saving Amazon Rainforest (www.washingtonpost.com)

Walking on a dusty field of cut rice that was once rainforest, researcher Flavio Wruck explains how farming, the Amazon's biggest killer, can be turned into its best defender. At the government-run... More

Tags: brazil,rainforest,deforestation,ranchers

Submitted about 1 month ago by codydamon on TheRainforest | 0 Comments |

Jobs, economics complicate Brazil's Amazon fight (www.fox11az.com)

Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend. The thick Amazon rain-forest canopy suddenly... More

Tags: brazil,jobs,enviromental police,fines,copenhagen,cattle,cows,ranchers

Submitted 3 months ago by codydamon on TheRainforest | 0 Comments |

Proposed uranium mill creates culture clash in Montrose County (coloradoindependent.com) TMC

The debate over a uranium mill proposed by a Canadian company in the western end of Montrose County has come down to a question of what people would rather have in their back yard: uranium processing,... More

Tags: tmc,uranium,colorado independent,mill,farmers,ranchers

Submitted 6 months ago by saramediaconsortium on Sustain | 0 Comments |

Mexican gray wolf recovery program update (newmexicoindependent.com) TMC

The Santa Fe Reporter this week has an update on the recovery of the endangered Mexican gray wolf, and an interview with the program’s new coordinator, Bud Fazio.

Tags: wolf,wolves,cattle,ranchers,tmc,the media consortium

Submitted 8 months ago by saramediaconsortium on Sustain | 0 Comments |

Ranchers now have a way out (www.hcn.org) TMC

The years-in-the-making Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 finally became law last month. The act designates more than 2 million acres of new wilderness, plus 1,100 miles of new wild and... More

Tags: oregon,idaho,tmc,hcn,ranchers

Submitted 11 months ago by cdoherty on Sustain | 0 Comments |

Economy Heavy on the Minds of South Dakota Farmers and Ranchers (www.publicnewsservice.org) TMC

There'll be plenty to talk about when farmers and ranchers come together this weekend in Aberdeen for the annual South Dakota Farmers Union Convention, and high on the list will be the soft economy... More

Tags: economy,south dakota,farmers,ranchers,tmc

Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty on Sustain | 0 Comments |

On predators, ranchers and public land grazing (www.hcn.org) TMC

Jim Eischeid’s letter to HCN in the November 24th edition pointed out the irony that “the large majority of those ranchers get sweet subsidized deals on the use of the public lands for grazing,... More

Tags: predators,ranchers,public land grazing,tmc

Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty on Green | 0 Comments |

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