The Wildlife News

June 25, 2007

  • Conservationists File Suit Over Illegal Sheep Grazing in Yellowstone Area

    Ralph Maughan

    This lawsuit is over sheep grazing in the Centennial Mountains to the west of Yellowstone. The range forms the Idaho/Montana border. -News Release- Conservationists File Suit Over Illegal Sheep Grazing in Yellowstone Area Groups Seek to Protect Bighorn Sheep and Other Endangered Species SILVER CITY, N.M.— Two conservation groups sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture…

  • More on the plight of Montana's river dwelling grayling

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a guest editorial in the Montana Standard written by Derek Goldman and Chris Marchion. It was not written by “staff.” More on Big Hole River grayling. Montana Standard.

  • Western wildfire season is well underway

    Ralph Maughan

    As I sit and write this in Pocatello, Idaho, the high smoke passing overhead (from the Cow Canyon fire) heralds an early beginning of the summer wildfire season, but Cow Canyon is hardly the only fire. Headwaters News today has a “roundup” on the fires. The most damaging one is near Lake Tahoe and has…

  • Park Service regional director backs up Yellowstone Park on plan to close Sylvan Pass during the winter

    Ralph Maughan

    Maybe the continuation of the incredible monetary subsidy per snowmobiler at the Park’s East Entrance during the winter will in fact be cut off. The NPS regional director is supporting Yellowstone superintendent Suzanne Lewis and the Park’s plan to close this little-used, avalanche prone pass. Story. Park boss: Sylvan Pass danger palpable. By Ruffin Prevost.…

  • Ex-Marine Kills 300-Pound Bear With Log

    Ralph Maughan

    Ex-Marine Kills 300-Pound Bear With Log. The Incident Is the Latest in a String of Bear Attacks. ABC News This was in Georgia . . . another 300 pound black bear. This story as written is a little bit contradictory because the article says the bear turned on his son, but at the bottom of…

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Edward Abbey

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