The Wildlife News

July 5, 2007

  • Worse news still for the protection of wolves in the Northern Rockies

    Ralph Maughan

    On July 6, the US Fish and Wildlife Service will publish a new proposed rule 10j in the Federal Register, that will make it every easy for state agencies and even private persons to kill wolves even without them being delisted. They won’t have to scientifically prove that wolves are depleting elk herds, essentially they…

  • Illusory Integrity at the Department of Interior

    Ralph Maughan

    The Sierra Club sent this out today as one of their emails to activist members (the RAW newsletter) Dept of Interior: Illusory Integrity and Other Idiocy Josh Dorner As faithful RAW readers know, the Department of the Interior has been buffeted by scandal after scandal at its highest levels. Apparently Sec. of the Interior Dirk…

  • Critics say [endangered] species list is endangered

    Ralph Maughan

    While Congress has largely disappeared as a threat to the ESA with the defeat of Richard Pombo and change in party control, the Bush Administration is still trying to gut the act. Their methods are 1. to reduce the administrative protections governing the species (that is, weaken the details because it is often the details…

  • New Wyoming Senator may favor buyout of gas leases in the Wyoming Range

    Ralph Maughan

    As folks may recall, Wyoming’s US Senator Craig Thomas died recently. Thomas was moving to protect the Wyoming Range mountains from oil and gas leasing and development. His replacement is appointed Republican John Barrasso. Barrasso responds in the article below, saying that he too wants to protect the area, but worries about the oil companies…

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Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

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