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MONTREAL(Kitco News) - Draft legislation to conserve and sustain 50% of the Plan Nord territory in Northern Quebec was unveiled by Quebec Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks Pierre Arcand On Friday, making it the largest land conservation project in history. Read the original: Quebec Minister Arcand Plans Historic Land Conservation Legislation

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Marine protected area sees fish increase fourfold, sharks tenfold, in a decade. More: Little Mexican reserve boasts big recovery

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Mossy Oak and POMA Present Pinnacle Awards Read more: Mossy Oak and POMA Present Pinnacle Awards

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Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Staff Writer - Sunday, August 14, 2011 At a dusty construction site in Vacaville adjacent to a prison yard, workers are putting the finishing touches on a 45,000-square-foot structure that will soon house dozens of California’s most severely mentally ill offenders. When the $33.6 million project at the California Medical Facility is completed this fall, prison...

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Op-Ed: California – Funding of new “Criminal Justice Realignment” is based on wrong criteria Posted: 08/14/2011 01:30:08 AM PDT W. David Ball As the state rolls out AB 109 criminal justice realignment, it is giving counties money to implement the plan. Allocations are based on counties’ current usage of prison, so, for example, Santa Cruz County is getting...

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The Journal Gazette – Published: August 14, 2011 3:00 a.m. Using court fees and money set aside by the state legislature, 52 Indiana counties received more than $15.7 million during the last fiscal year to help defray the costs of providing defense attorneys to people who can’t afford them. Counties are obligated to provide lawyers for criminal defendants...

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August 13, 2011 – Napa Valley Register Napa County officials are preparing for more jail inmates and parolees coming into the local system soon through a law to reduce the state prison population. Under Gov. Jerry Brown’s realignment, a law prompted by a federal court order to reduce overcrowding at state prisons, thousands of felons convicted of lesser...

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Bay Area Rapid Transit officials infringed on the First Amendment rights of demonstrators by shutting down power to cellular towers in order to disrupt a protest, after learning that the demonstrators intended to coordinate their activities via mobile devices.

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By h. “Bulldog” Brown - August 13, 2011 Mission accomplished! Obviously this changes my endorsements. Jeff’s number one far and away. I’ll watch with interest as the shrill trolls screech in agony like moldy vampires caught in the deathly glare of the morning sun. Well, the sun burns a bit brighter today doesn’t it? Bloggers really can make a...

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by James Temple – The San Francisco Chronicle A bill moving through Congress would deputize your Internet service provider as a government snoop. HR1981 would force the company you pay for Internet access to store a year’s worth of personal data and hand it over at the request of law enforcement. [Full story at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/12/BUTT1KL8UD.DTL&type=tech ] See more...