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three yellowstone bear world black bear cubs waiting for public bottle feeding behind electric fence and the photo frame is in the shape of Idaho

Yellowstone Bear World: Idaho’s #1 Bear Cub Mill

Alex Mar 15, 2021 Animal Welfare Act, Bear, Brutus the Bear, Captive Animal Industry, Endangered Species Act, Grizzly Bears, Hollywood Game Farms, Idaho, Joe Exotic the Tiger King, Roadside Zoo, Yellowstone Bear World

Yellowstone Bear World Allegedly Killed Bear Cubs: A Behind-the-Scenes Look Before Casey Anderson became famous with his captive brown bear Brutus in Nat Geo shows, he worked at Yellowstone Bear

aerial view of red sludge flooded an entire river and vally and broke a bridge

28 Facts, Tragedies, & Catastrophes of Open-Pit Mines

Alex Jan 31, 2021 Centennial Mountains, Cyanide, Dams, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Environmental, environmental disasters, environmental racism, Excellon Resources, First Peoples, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Idaho, Kilgore Project, Mining, Montana, Politics, River, Tragedy, Utah

Why a Countdown of 28 Facts, Tragedies, & Catastrophes of Open-Pit Mines? On January 12, 2021, the Post Register published a Forest Service legal notice giving the public 30 days

That time my dad let a man live in his car

Alex Jun 16, 2018 Father's Day, Fathers, Holiday, Human Rights

An anecdote about my dad A while back, my dad noticed that his car had begun the curious habit of generating cigarette butts. My dad didn’t smoke. No one who

Open Pit mining in Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Timeline of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s Open-Pit Apocalypse

Alex Apr 22, 2018 Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Centennial Mountains, Environmental, Forest Service, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Idaho, Kilgore Project, Mining, Otis Gold

The Fickle Business of the Open Pit: 1937 – 2008 1937: Blue Ledge Company sets up underground adits, potential prospect pits, a tramway, and a foundation for a mill that

Rape Culture and State Supreme Court saying a woman with cerebral palsy should have fought off her rapist

Our Rape Culture Honor Roll

Alex Mar 25, 2018 Domestic Violence, Human Rights, Institutional Sexism, Legal System, Rape, Rape Culture, Violence Against Women, Women's Rights

We give judges the title of ‘Honorable.’ We stand up when they enter a courtroom. So we shouldn’t be surprised when this quark of authority worship leads to our blind

toxic masculinity in Yamaguchi assassination

Toxic Masculity: Penises in Japan and Tanks in Czechoslovakia

Eric Mar 18, 2018 Abusive Male, Human Rights, Kenzaburo Oe, Milan Kundera, Toxic Masculinity, Violence, Violence Against Women

She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was

My Trump Attacked Me on Twitter Hall of Fame Defense

Alex Mar 15, 2018 Donald Trump, Politics

Trump Attacked Me on Twitter On March 2, 2018, at a time when most presidents would still be sleeping off their previous evening’s cheeseburgers-in-bed, Trump put our tax dollars to

gun violence and mental health doesn't explain the rise in school shootings since the 1980s

The NRA Needs Pie: equating gun violence and mental health is poor taste

Alex Feb 27, 2018 Abuse, Abusive Male, Americans, Domestic Violence, Gun Control, Guns, Human Rights, Mass Shooting, Mental Health, Murder, NRA, People with mental illness, Politics, Rhetoric, Shooting, Tragedy, Violence, Violence Against Women

The gun violence and mental health script Dr. John T. Monahan sums up the gun violence and mental health script thusly: “Two things typically happen in the wake of a

When We Became “Welcome to Bears Ears”: A Metamorphosis

Alex Feb 16, 2018 Americans, Bears Ears National Monument, Environmental, First Peoples, Forest Service, Grassroots Activism, Holiday, Human Rights, Inter-Tribal Coalition, Memorial Day, Outdoor Recreation, Political Border, Politics, Road Signs, Utah, Wilderness

One morning, Eric and I woke in the desert from uneasy politics and found we had turned into a large “Welcome to Bears Ears” sign. For two days, some people

Kilgore Project will devastate these grizzlies

#Kill the Kilgore Project Before It Kills Our Grizzlies

Alex Feb 01, 2018 #goodbearhavior, Americans, Backpacking, Backpacking Idaho, Bear, Centennial Mountains, Environmental, Forest Service, Grizzly Bears, Hiking, Idaho, Kilgore Project, Leave No Trace, Mining, Outdoor Recreation, Politics, Rhetoric, Roads, Wilderness, Yellowstone NP

Archived Campaign that Ended on Feb. 9, 2018. We have a more thorough and updated article for the 2021 Kilgore Project Proposal accepting comments through Feb 11, 2021. The Kilgore Project

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