The Wildlife News

June 2007

  • Penalize mud-boggers who rip up the land

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a guest opinion from Writers on the Range published inHeadwaters News. Penalize mud-boggers who rip up the land. By Mike Beagle. June 13, 2007. The essence of the argument is that because law enforcement is sporadic in the hinterlands, these increasingly and deliberately destructive people need to be dealt with harshly in order…

  • Clinton legacy, chapter 243: One of his judges stops Bush’s deregulation of livestock grazing

    Ralph Maughan

    This is by Ray Ring in Goat, a High Country News blog. It provides the most information so far on the defeat of Bush’s new public land grazing regulations, an analysis what these people are up to, and thoughts of the public lands and the federal courts and judges. One of Clinton’s judicial appointments stops…

  • Congress should defund predator control by Wildlife Services from aircraft

    Ralph Maughan

    Sinapu and many other groups want this annual massive assault on our native carnivores stopped. It is excessive, it’s not cost effective, it is an undue subsidy to a small group and kills animals that many would like to see live. There are many other ways of achieving valid results without using this method. I…

  • Two ecosystems, two cultures [and wolves]

    Ralph Maughan

    Brodie Farquhar writes an essay for the Casper Star Tribune on why wolves are more controversial in the West than in the Great Lakes States. Two ecosystems, two cultures. post 1204

  • Dozens of bison pushed back inside Yellowstone

    Ralph Maughan

    post 1200 Rather than slaughter the bison it just captured, public opinion has once again forced Montana to once again push them into the Park. The push continues today. Yesterday Park visitors witnessed the unprecedented hazing of bison all the way to 7-Mile Bridge and beyond (on the West Entrance road). Associated Press story. Next…

  • Alberta grizzly census finds only 100 left south of Calgary/Banff

    Ralph Maughan

    The grizzly had faded greatly in Alberta in the Rockies and foothills in the southwestern part of the province (the southeastern portion lost its grizzlies long ago — plains). Massive energy industrialization of the North is also taking the great bear down. Story in The Globe and Mail. By Geoff Nixon post 1199

  • Rocky Barker's blog: Cowboys and loggers lose in two courtrooms

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is more on the big victory, slapping down the Bush Administration’s new grazing regulations. Rocky Barker goes on to tie it with the recent Bush defeat on the roadless issue ruling. One point about the headline — ” Cowboys and loggers.” Cowboys and loggers are the employees. Like so many of us, they are…

  • Montana goes back on its word, to send bison to slaughter June 11

    Ralph Maughan

    -Important update. See the June 12 story on bison- I don’t like to step on the story that federal Judge Winmill just overturned Bush’s bastardized BLM rules because it is the more important story, but folks will probably be more likely to read that Montana has doublecrossed folks and captured the bison and sent the…

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