The Wildlife News

August 2007

  • Yellowstone's Wolves Save Its Aspen

    Brian Ertz

    This was nice. The New York Time’s does a piece on “The Basics” with wolves and Yellowstone’s aspen. I like the cartoon as well.

  • Many troubles for the sage grouse

    Brian Ertz

    WWPblog has a story about many of the threats to sage grouse. Here’s a link to the West Nile concerns This just goes to show how important rehab efforts after the fire will be to get these birds, and a host of other wildlife, proper habitat. Siberian wheat-grass, another non-native very similar to Crested Wheat,…

  • It's starve or sell for cattle ranches

    Brian Ertz

    The Salt Lake Tribute describes the stifling conditions ranchers are finding themselves in. The fire and drought are coming down hard right as the price of feed stretches just beyond many’s reach. This ought to give buy-outs a new breath. While smaller operations engage in hard to swallow realities about the conditions on the land,…

  • Bangs predicts no wolf populaton growth in Wyoming this year

    Ralph Maughan

    But is wasn’t supposed to be this way, the Wyoming wolf population would grow 20% forever! Just ask Gov. Dave or that Crank guy who is the State’s AG. Here is the brief item from the Bang’s weekly report: Mid-summer pack counts in Wyoming include: 15 breeding packs with pups, 7 packs with unknown breeding…

  • Public meetings, comment period scheduled on Washington State's wolf plan

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is a news release from the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildife Citizens can comment on gray wolf management in Washington state, during public meetings Aug. 14-23, and in writing through Aug. 31.  The series of public “scoping” meetings is being held by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and an 18-member…

  • George Wuerthner interviewed on "Off the Trail" about benefits of wildfire

    Brian Ertz

    George Wuerthner does an interview on the KBSU public radio program “Off the trail” with Jyl Hoyt. Wuerthner describes the upside of forest fire. You can listen to a stream of the interview here.

  • There is still time to comment on the proposed new (and just plain awful) wolf rules.

    Ralph Maughan

      Although I earlier posted a lot of material about the USFWS proposed changes to the 10j rule on the “non-essential, experimental” population of wolves in Idaho, Wyoming, and much of Montana, a month ago, I’ve been asked to post again now that the due date approaches — August 6. Here is the proposed new…

  • Contact Governor Brian Schweitzer (Buffalo Field Campaign update)

    Ralph Maughan

    This is the time to contact Governor Schweitzer asking for bison habitat, especially since Republican Montana congressman Dennis Rehburg shot down an effort in Congress to provide it. I’d think the Democratic governor would want to knock of this obstreperous retrograde Republican holdover. _________________ Here is the BFC update. In this issue: * Update from…

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