WC is not much of a fan of rap/hip hop music. But it’s a treat to see an African-American rapper making important points in a broadly appealing way. This is a pretty good effort from 2015. Props to Prince Ea. And that’s a killer final statement. Enjoy,
Americans, and international visitors, love federal lands. Idahoans pack the federal parks, national forests, national recreation areas and other federal lands all summer. Everything from dirt bike racing in the Owyhee Mountains to rafting Wild and Scenic Rivers to backpacking Forest Service trails to filling up all the campgrounds in the state on weekends. Hunting…
Last night, WC had a very pleasant dream. Donald Trump was stranded on the Chukchi Sea pack ice in mid-March, being stalked by a hungry polar bear. It was simple wish fulfillment, of course, a combination of the president-elects further denials of man-caused climate change and the very lame Polar Bear Conservation Management Plan released…
The Peregrine Fund is an unusual conservation organization. It’s a hero: The Peregrine Fund led and continues to lead the successful fight to save is namesake bird and other raptors from extinction. But it’s also strongly rooted in falconry, the 4,000 year old of capturing and training raptors. The Peregrine Fund has a long list…
As we struggle to understand how the Bundy defendants were acquitted by the jury, there’s a key fact you need to understand: the criminal justice system is imperfect, Sometimes the innocent are convicted; sometimes the guilty go free. In United States v. Bundy, it’s not clear whether the acquittal of all seven defendants on all charges was…
Opponents of government regulation seem to think that there are regulations because some bureaucrat woke up one morning with a headache and the result was a passel of regulations. That’s wrong of course, but the supporters of this whole privatization movement, whether it’s zanies like the Bundy boys, or soulless Congressmen bought and paid for by…
WC recently spent some time in Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, the place the Bundy clan proposed to privatize in their feeble insurrection. WC is happy to report that the wildlife there seems to have emerged from whole wretched ordeal in fairly good shape. Which is more than can be said for the Refuge headquarters, which…
Harambe, of course, was the 17-year old gorilla kept at the Cincinnati Zoo. He was shot and killed by zoo officials after a 3-year old boy climbed through the fence and fell into the moat at the base of Harambe’s cage. Some folks are blaming the kid’s mother, for allowing her child to climb in…
It’s surely one of the most important camping trips in American history. In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt accompanied John Muir on a visit to Yosemite. Muir joined Roosevelt in Oakland, California, for the train trip downstate to Raymond. The presidential entourage then traveled by stagecoach into the park. While traveling to the park, Muir told the president about state mismanagement of…
Wickersham's Conscience 
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