The Wildlife News

January 29, 2008

  • Public Lands Tag Sale

    Ralph Maughan

    Diary of a Mad Voter: Joan McCarter. Public Lands Tag Sale. By Joan McCarter. New West. While media talks about the horse race for President, it’s going to be a year of plunder on the public lands, and most it will not be covered. McCarter writes about what is going on, starting with the Bush…

  • Pinedale, WY area elk avoid Game and Fish traps

    Ralph Maughan

    Jan. 29, 2008 We’ve covered this pointless plan to trap elk and test them for brucellosis antibodies before they go onto the Muddy Creek winter feedlot. Those that test positive are killed and the rest left to act like cattle for the rest of the winter. Regarding the slaughtered elk, most of which really don’t…

  • Idaho Fish and Game news release on wolves

    Ralph Maughan

    I just got this. “Buffaloed” posted part of it as a comment. I am putting all of it up. The “control” of the Buffalo Ridge Pack is a total outrage and a preface to what we will see with total state control. This has been one of Idaho’s most visible wolf packs, and one that…

  • Groups file lawsuit against the new 10j rule

    Ralph Maughan

    As expected, a number of conservation groups have filed a lawsuit in the Montana federal district court to set aside the new 10j rule on wolves in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming that was just published. They are Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, Defenders of Wildlife, Natural Resources Defense Council,  Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, Humane…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

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

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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