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Neurotic Killer Clowns Attack Public Forests

Americans who love the great outdoors are witnessing Trump’s “Plunder America First” public forest liquidation program – up close and...

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Steve Kelly

”Market-Based” Environmentalism = Yellowstone Buffalo Genocide

Yellowstone bison have flourished for more than 10,000 years. In the 1830s settler-colonialists and other two-legged parasites nearly wiped them...

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Understanding Public Lands ‘Management’ and Other Hallucinations of Nature

Forest genocide is not new. Its cumulative detrimental effects now threaten our terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. A warming planet and extended...

14.10.2025 10

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Genocidal Clowns Plunder Public Forests  

Here in Montana, early mining claims at Benetsee Creek (1852); Bannack (1860); Alder Creek near Virginia City (1862); and Last Chance Gulch in Helena...

24.07.2025 10

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How to “Wilder” in a Virtual, Financialized World

The abstract idea of wilderness began long before the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964. As far back as the Babylonian Empire and Chinese Empire...

01.07.2025 10

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Government’s Presumption of Management Kills Public Forests

Every Creation of Nature that inhabits a public forest governed by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) or Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is being...

23.05.2025 10

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Steve Kelly