May 2007

  • Check out this paper on carnivore-livestock conflicts.

    Ralph Maughan

    Carnivore-Livestock Conflicts: Effects of Subsidized Predator Control and Economic Correlates on the Sheep Industry. Conservation Biology. post 1134

  • Rocky Barker's blog: Don't plan on a lot of campfires this summer

    Ralph Maughan

    Rocky Barker’s blog today fleshes out what a lot of people are talking about right now in Idaho, Nevada, Montana, and Utah — the coming forest fire season. The winter had below normal precipitation and the spring was generally dry. Dry springs actually reduce the range fire potential because the flammable seasonal grasses don’t grow…

  • Trust Fund for Grizzlies, Wolves Weighed

    Ralph Maughan

    Trust Fund for Grizzlies, Wolves Weighed International Business Times. By Matthew Brown. The idea is that Congress would provide most of the initial money and create a quasi-governmental fund, to which states, individuals, non-profit and for profit corporations, could add. The fund would take the burden off of state departments of fish and game, and…

  • Reproductive Speed Protects Large Animals From Being Hunted To Extinction

    Ralph Maughan

    The slower their reproductive cycle, the higher the risk of extinction for large grazing animals such as deer and antelope that are hunted by humans. Story in Science Daily. post 1131

  • Buffalo Field Campaign Update

    Ralph Maughan

    Post 1030 Here is the latest update from the Buffalo Field Campaign. Below I have posted my condensed version of their email alert. I do disagree with BFC that the solution to the bison imprisonment inside Yellowstone can be solved by boycotting beef. I have come to believe the actions of the Montana Department of…

  • Some great photos of the Hayden Pack wolves.

    Ralph Maughan

    These are from the web page of Walking Shadow Ecology. post 1129

  • Montana Department of Livestock fills executive post

    Ralph Maughan

    The Board of Livestock hired Christian Mackay, a real estate agent and feed salesman whose background includes work in the beef industry and the labor movement, to succeed Marc Bridges. Bridges retired at the end of 2006. Read the rest in an AP story in the Billings Gazette. These little reported things can be critical.…

  • Fight to save the fluvial grayling in Montana is not over yet.

    Ralph Maughan

    Groups are going to court to try to force the Bush Administration to list the fluvial grayling.  This has become normal and expected as the Administration neither belives in the Endangered Species Act or adding any more species to the list. Do they believe in the rule of law regarding anything ❓ Story in the…

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