This weekly column features news stories and event announcements from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. We also mention companies of interest to preppers and survivalists that are located in the American Redoubt region. Today, we focus on Idaho’s Anti-Litter Campaign. (See the Idaho section.)
Region-Wide
A British journalist interviewed me, for this fairly-well balanced and fairly lengthy article over at UnHerd: Inside The American Redoubt.
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We generally pay very little attention to sports in SurvivalBlog, but this news story has some larger implications: Whitman Co. judge rules WSU, OSU have control of Pac-12 conference.
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Mule deer tests positive for chronic wasting disease in Yellowstone National Park.
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2023 visits to Yellowstone near 4.5 million, 2nd most visited year all-time.
Idaho
More than three million pounds of litter removed, nearly $25M in labor saved. JWR’s Comments: That has indeed been a very successful program. Idaho has very little roadside litter, compared to many other states that I’ve seen. But it bears mention that the anti-litter signs that were erected in the early 1990s were all painted with “Cecil D. Andrus, Governor” at the bottom. What a colossal grandstanding move! (That line was cleverly covered by trash bags, for the original publicity photos.) I suppose that he thought that he’d be Governor-For-Life. After Andrus left office, all of those signs had to be painted over, or retrofitted with blank plates bolted on, to cover that line. (See the photo at the top of this column.) And today, 30+ years later, most of those same retrofitted signs are still standing. Thankfully, most of the state’s Governors since then have had more constrained egos. Oh, and they’ve all been Republicans. And there is still not very much litter.
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Can Lori Vallow-Daybell and Chad Daybell communicate with each other? Prosecutors believe they can.
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Man sentenced to 24 months for selling $4.4 million in unapproved steroid-like drugs.
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