January 2008
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You don’t feed wolves like you do dogs even if the wolves don’t have to hunt. Story about the wolves at the International Wolf Center at Ely, Minnesota. By Scott Stowell
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Rare lynx photographed in Yellowstone. By Mike Stark. Billings Gazette.
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People are beginning to realize that the cost of burning their food (corn) to fuel their automobiles is pretty high. Now that the Iowa caucus is over, perhaps some rationality will filter down to the politicians on this issue. A much worse energy tradeoff, however, is oil shale. There are huge deposits of it in…
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Conservation groups have taken action after the story about ranch hands luring wolves in so they will kill calves, so the wolves will then killed by the government “to protect the livestock.” For Immediate Release, January 3, 2008 Contact: Michael Robinson, (575) 534-0360 Conservationists Request Investigations of Reported Wolf Baiting SILVER CITY, N.M.— Fifteen conservation…
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As snow depth diminishes, the deep snows of the mountains become more crucial for wolverines because they need the snow in the high bowls for denning. With the coming of high powered snowmobiles much of this country has already been damaged. A five-year study of Glacier NP, where these machines are not allowed shows that…
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A Divide as Wolves Rebound in a Changing West. New York Times. By Kirk Johnson The New York Times article today writes of how the West has changed since wolves were introduced 13 years ago with an influx of people who do not have the old fashioned ideas about wolves and are more likely to…
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Otter, other governors declare war on cheatgrass. They want 500 volunteers to help collect native seeds, so threatened areas can be replanted. Idaho Statesman. By Rocky Barker. Controlling cheatgrass is absolutely critical. If they don’t have enough native seed, they need to encourage the production of native grass and forbs for seed as an agricultural…