Category: idaho
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Smoke
<a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Aug2007/US_AMO_2007225_lrg.jpg'><!– s9ymdb:109 –><img width='540' height='334' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/smoke08132007.jpg" alt="" /></a><br />n<br />nHere is why it has been so smokey lately in Montana. We keep talking about the fires in Montana but it looks like the ones in Idaho are really big and nasty.<br />n<br />n<strong>I make it a rule…
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Brucellosis Free
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=147391" >Cattle Health: <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> Changes Idaho’s Brucellosis Status To Class Free</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is amending its brucellosis regulations concerning the interstate movement of cattle by changing Idaho’s classification from Class…
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The Pot And The Kettle
This is hilarious. Sad, but hilarious and I wonder how many other people found this inconsistency.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.jacksonholestartrib.com/articles/2006/10/07/news/wyoming/37c341aba5ff6d01872571ff0081082f.txt">Freudenthal to Idaho: Ban game farms</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In the wake of domestic elk escaping from an Idaho game farm, Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal is asking the neighboring state to ban game farms and to help enact a…
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Montana Governor Out to Destroy the Cattle Industry
Isn't the decision those in power make just wonderful sometimes. The federal government tells ranchers they have to control brucellosis or face severe restrictions on their abilities to move cattle across state lines like our friends in <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/1485-Idaho-and-Brucellosis.html">Idaho</a> and <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/83-Brucellosis-in-Wyoming.html">Wyoming</a> recently found out. Yet <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> decides that letting <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/09/news/state/40-gov-bison.txt">possibly…
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Idaho and Brucellosis
It's official<br />n<br />n<blockquote><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> CHANGES IDAHO=S CLASS FREE BRUCELLOSIS STATUS<br />n<br />nWASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2006
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Reporting, I Guess
I see over at New West they are "reporting", I use that term loosely here, that Idaho has <a href="http://www.newwest.net/index.php/main/article/5160/">lost its brucellosis free status</a>. This peaked my interest as stories that involve cattle do so I looked into it. The "reporter", Bill Schneider, uses as source material for this report a website called <a href="http://www.forwolves.org/ralph/bisonrpt.html">Ralph…